Shlomo Dubrowin
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7/ May all of your planning and execution this Gregorian Year go smoothly and be less painful than having the 10 plagues land on you.
Shabbat Shalom
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January 16, 2026 at 7:01 AM
7/ May all of your planning and execution this Gregorian Year go smoothly and be less painful than having the 10 plagues land on you.
Shabbat Shalom
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6/ Less Customer Obsessed (depending on who the customer is here, we see the Israelites are delayed in the desert for 40 years, talk about feature creep), but we see that it Delivers Results.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:01 AM
6/ Less Customer Obsessed (depending on who the customer is here, we see the Israelites are delayed in the desert for 40 years, talk about feature creep), but we see that it Delivers Results.
5/ Imagine, HaShem is your boss, he’s actually given you the blueprint (or template) for what needs to happen and he’s pushing you, driving you, to accomplish this important goal. And here is the plan, we’re going to pressure Pharo over and over until he gives you what you want.
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5/ Imagine, HaShem is your boss, he’s actually given you the blueprint (or template) for what needs to happen and he’s pushing you, driving you, to accomplish this important goal. And here is the plan, we’re going to pressure Pharo over and over until he gives you what you want.
4/ OK, it’s been planning season for at least a month and it’ll continue for some months. And then start over. But there has been a lot of planning both professionally and personally as the Gregorian Year turns over.
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4/ OK, it’s been planning season for at least a month and it’ll continue for some months. And then start over. But there has been a lot of planning both professionally and personally as the Gregorian Year turns over.
3/ And then we proceed to have the first 7 of the 10 plagues. Blood, Frogs, Lice, Beasts, Pestilence, Boils, and Hail.
I don’t know about where you folks are, but this time of year where I work is planning season.
I don’t know about where you folks are, but this time of year where I work is planning season.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:01 AM
3/ And then we proceed to have the first 7 of the 10 plagues. Blood, Frogs, Lice, Beasts, Pestilence, Boils, and Hail.
I don’t know about where you folks are, but this time of year where I work is planning season.
I don’t know about where you folks are, but this time of year where I work is planning season.
2/ The parsha starts with HaShem hearing the cries of The Israelites. Moses says he doesn’t speak well. We have an accounting of the houses of Israel. The accounting can be taking stock of your resources, who’s who and making sure you have a list to not leave anyone behind.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:01 AM
2/ The parsha starts with HaShem hearing the cries of The Israelites. Moses says he doesn’t speak well. We have an accounting of the houses of Israel. The accounting can be taking stock of your resources, who’s who and making sure you have a list to not leave anyone behind.
11/ May we have many more happy occassions together than sad ones. Shabbat shalom.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
11/ May we have many more happy occassions together than sad ones. Shabbat shalom.
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10/ Most of my adult life I have now been in Israel and I definitely feel the ups and downs, but I am comforted by the community we have here. And I appreciate our friends, neighbors and family that we have who help smooth out some of the rough edges as we navigate this together.
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10/ Most of my adult life I have now been in Israel and I definitely feel the ups and downs, but I am comforted by the community we have here. And I appreciate our friends, neighbors and family that we have who help smooth out some of the rough edges as we navigate this together.
9/ By us it’s been a rollercoaster of a week. From a funeral on Har Hertzel for a 32 year old miluimnik who had a stroke and died on Tuesday to a wedding last night. I had a thought this week. I don’t remember as a kid growing up being exposed to so many of life’s ups and downs.
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9/ By us it’s been a rollercoaster of a week. From a funeral on Har Hertzel for a 32 year old miluimnik who had a stroke and died on Tuesday to a wedding last night. I had a thought this week. I don’t remember as a kid growing up being exposed to so many of life’s ups and downs.
8/ You could say that the Jewish people here would have to go through a slightly harder time, but the benefits to them in the long run are significant. Paro here is trying to hold back progress. He has his free labor and doesn’t want to them go. We know what happens to his team in the end.
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8/ You could say that the Jewish people here would have to go through a slightly harder time, but the benefits to them in the long run are significant. Paro here is trying to hold back progress. He has his free labor and doesn’t want to them go. We know what happens to his team in the end.
7/ If you tweak this architecture in a slight way now, then in the future, you can be multi-AZ or even multi-Region for the resilience benefit of your system and for your customers.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
7/ If you tweak this architecture in a slight way now, then in the future, you can be multi-AZ or even multi-Region for the resilience benefit of your system and for your customers.
6/ can take some time to see the positive results. It’s a challenge to convince these folks that what you see them doing is a problem and that with a little effort up front, there can be a better way.
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6/ can take some time to see the positive results. It’s a challenge to convince these folks that what you see them doing is a problem and that with a little effort up front, there can be a better way.
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How many times have we seen customers or projects that are stuck in their ways? This works for me, why would I want to do it another way? And the process to uproot what they are using for something better can be difficult, fraught with problems and obstacles, and ...
How many times have we seen customers or projects that are stuck in their ways? This works for me, why would I want to do it another way? And the process to uproot what they are using for something better can be difficult, fraught with problems and obstacles, and ...
Clouded Torah
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January 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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How many times have we seen customers or projects that are stuck in their ways? This works for me, why would I want to do it another way? And the process to uproot what they are using for something better can be difficult, fraught with problems and obstacles, and ...
How many times have we seen customers or projects that are stuck in their ways? This works for me, why would I want to do it another way? And the process to uproot what they are using for something better can be difficult, fraught with problems and obstacles, and ...
4/ He’s out tending to the flocks and has the episode of the burning bush. Moshe’s wife, Ziporah circumcises their son on the way back to Egypt. Aharon meets him and they go to Paro, who doesn’t let the people go and increases their labor. And the people complain to Moshe.
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4/ He’s out tending to the flocks and has the episode of the burning bush. Moshe’s wife, Ziporah circumcises their son on the way back to Egypt. Aharon meets him and they go to Paro, who doesn’t let the people go and increases their labor. And the people complain to Moshe.
3/ Moshe sees a task master beating a Jew and kills him, hids the body. And the next day he stops 2 Jews from fighting and someone asks if he’s going to kill them too. So he runs away, meets the daughters of Yitro (a Midianite priest), marries one of them.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
3/ Moshe sees a task master beating a Jew and kills him, hids the body. And the next day he stops 2 Jews from fighting and someone asks if he’s going to kill them too. So he runs away, meets the daughters of Yitro (a Midianite priest), marries one of them.
2/ Moshe is born and he is sent adrift in the “ark” (Teiva in Hebrew) which was probably like a basket of some kind. (BTW Moshe beTeiva is a small hotdog, kosher, roled in pastry dough. What is called a pig in a blanket in other places).
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January 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
2/ Moshe is born and he is sent adrift in the “ark” (Teiva in Hebrew) which was probably like a basket of some kind. (BTW Moshe beTeiva is a small hotdog, kosher, roled in pastry dough. What is called a pig in a blanket in other places).
10/ From this we learn (or should learn) that we should always be evaluating where we are and telling the most important people to us how we feel about them. Because we never know when HaShem will give us a 2-min warning (or maybe even less).
Shabbat Shalom
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January 2, 2026 at 8:10 AM
10/ From this we learn (or should learn) that we should always be evaluating where we are and telling the most important people to us how we feel about them. Because we never know when HaShem will give us a 2-min warning (or maybe even less).
Shabbat Shalom
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Shabbat Shalom
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9/ A good spot architecture will have the instances constantly pushing their reports or progress off the machine so that when the eventual (at least for people, some spot instances can run for a very long time) 2-min warning will come, they only have to give a final update.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:10 AM
9/ A good spot architecture will have the instances constantly pushing their reports or progress off the machine so that when the eventual (at least for people, some spot instances can run for a very long time) 2-min warning will come, they only have to give a final update.
8/ Both Yaakov and Yosef are giving over berachot and instructions on their death beds. It’s this final word where they can give some insights into folks for the future.
Spot instances often use this time to stop their work and upload their status.
Spot instances often use this time to stop their work and upload their status.
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8/ Both Yaakov and Yosef are giving over berachot and instructions on their death beds. It’s this final word where they can give some insights into folks for the future.
Spot instances often use this time to stop their work and upload their status.
Spot instances often use this time to stop their work and upload their status.
7/ The catch is, however, that when that capacity is required for full-paying customers, AWS will reclaim that capacity and give it to someone at full price. The Spot instance gets a 2 min warning that it’s going to get reclaimed. It’s this 2 min warning that has me thinking about this parsha.
Clouded Torah
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January 2, 2026 at 8:10 AM
7/ The catch is, however, that when that capacity is required for full-paying customers, AWS will reclaim that capacity and give it to someone at full price. The Spot instance gets a 2 min warning that it’s going to get reclaimed. It’s this 2 min warning that has me thinking about this parsha.
6/ As I read the parsha this week, I could not help but be struck by how similar this is to Spot Instance. For those that don’t know, Spot instances are AWS compute instances (computers) that are extra capacity. They are not currently being used and folks can use them at a big discount.
Clouded Torah
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January 2, 2026 at 8:10 AM
6/ As I read the parsha this week, I could not help but be struck by how similar this is to Spot Instance. For those that don’t know, Spot instances are AWS compute instances (computers) that are extra capacity. They are not currently being used and folks can use them at a big discount.
5/ But Yosef was upset that his brothers didn’t understand him enough to know that he was no longer bitter.
And then at the very end, Yosef is on his death bed and has everyone promise to bring him to Eretz Yisrael when they leave Egypt. And this is the end of Sefer Beresheit.
And then at the very end, Yosef is on his death bed and has everyone promise to bring him to Eretz Yisrael when they leave Egypt. And this is the end of Sefer Beresheit.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:10 AM
5/ But Yosef was upset that his brothers didn’t understand him enough to know that he was no longer bitter.
And then at the very end, Yosef is on his death bed and has everyone promise to bring him to Eretz Yisrael when they leave Egypt. And this is the end of Sefer Beresheit.
And then at the very end, Yosef is on his death bed and has everyone promise to bring him to Eretz Yisrael when they leave Egypt. And this is the end of Sefer Beresheit.
4/ As an aside, we know that King David had his son Shlomo exact retribution on some folks after King David passed away. Therefore, while this upset Yosef, it wasn’t completely out of the realm of possibility.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:10 AM
4/ As an aside, we know that King David had his son Shlomo exact retribution on some folks after King David passed away. Therefore, while this upset Yosef, it wasn’t completely out of the realm of possibility.