Fragments: September 8
Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them:. This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image…
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The oldest architecture in computing
A GPU burns 700 watts and hundreds of thousands of tries to learn Pong. A human brain does it on 20 watts in a handful of attempts. So what can the oldest architecture in computing teach us about where agents and memory…
Do you even need a presentation?
Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a presentation…
Built for Reliability: How American Express Processes Payments at Scale
In this article, we will try to understand how the transaction runs through such a cell-based architecture and how the payments are processed even when some services are failing.
Article: Implementing Chaos Engineering in Financial Payment Systems: Lessons from Enterprise ECS Deployments
Standard chaos engineering assumes experiments stop cleanly, blast radius is knowable in advance, and production is fair game. Payment systems violate all three. Salim Adedeji describes ECS-specific failure modes from…