Noah Gift is a technologist, educator, and writer focused on cloud computing, AI, open source, and the human impact of technology. His work blends hands-on engineering insights (Python, Rust, AWS, serverless) with sharp critiques of corporate culture, economic systems, and AI ethics.
10 articles from this blog
Compares Rust and Python using a 'build vs. wash' analogy, arguing Rust's upfront effort yields long-term maintenance and performance benefits.
Explains AWS Lambda and serverless computing, using analogies to describe its event-driven, on-demand nature and benefits.
Explains Function as a Service (FaaS), a core serverless technology, covering its characteristics, use with AWS Lambda, and best practices for development.
Analysis of Mozilla's public AI paper, highlighting the benefits of small, open-source language models for efficiency, privacy, and global access.
Critique of surveillance capitalism and broken tech economic models, proposing solutions like externality-first capitalism to prioritize human welfare.
Analyzes four key weaknesses in Python's design that may lead to its decline, advocating for Rust in many domains.
Explores the 'law of large data breaches,' a hypothesis that all online data subsets are eventually breached, relating it to probability and data as a toxic asset.
A guide to identifying and countering common forms of propaganda and flawed thinking in the technology industry, from FOMO to naive utopianism.
Explores the need for a modern "Digital Rights of Humans" declaration to protect privacy, data ownership, and freedom from algorithmic harm in the AI era.
Overview of a university-level Data Engineering course syllabus covering tools, pipelines, AI pair programming, and project-based learning for Fall 2024.
