Assorted links for Monday, September 9:

1. A Guide to Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
2. Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

   While the much celebrated ideal of a “full stack engineer” is valuable, in deep and complex systems it’s often even more valuable to create cohorts of experts who can collaborate and get really creative across the entire stack and all their individual areas of depth.

3. Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
4. Governing data products using fitness functions

   Fitness functions are a powerful automated governance technique we’ve applied to data products within the context of a Data Mesh. Since data products serve as the foundational building blocks (architectural quanta) of a data mesh, ensuring robust governance around them significantly increases the chances of a successful data mesh transformation.

5. Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime