Or they think extensively about performance. Regardless, the switch shows they pay attention and are willing to change.
> All this complexity I learned must have been for a reason! It doesn't have to be so emotional. Htmx can be helpful to keep all your state in one place, it's simpler to reason about and make changes. Lower cognitive…
> 7. ... Another business I worked for literally hired and fired four separate teams to build an on-prem OpenStack cluster, and it was the most unstable, terrible computing platform I've used, that constantly caused…
> The bigger cost is what will happen to your business when you're hard-down for a week because all your SQL servers are down, and you don't have spares, and it will take a week to ship new servers and get them racked.…
> I'm not certain that's true if you look at TCO. Sigh. This old trope from ancient history in internet time. > Yes, you can probably buy a server for less than the yearly rent on the equivalent EC2 instance. Or a…
You're missing the purpose of the cache. At least for this argument it's mostly for network responses. HDD was 10ms, which was noticeable for cached network request that needs to go back out on the wire. This was also…
If you don't have scale, you don't need most of the features. Fire up PC, load application. Setup egress port open to internet. Setup application backup on cron job. Done until scale problems arise.
2015 called and wants it's hype back.
I ran the numbers the other day. For just compute with my particular load, my numbers say AWS costs 73928x more for lambda over my on-prem. Like for like is 1250x more. This is presuming the savings levels for being a…
Why does everyone always jump to this fiction? You probably aren't paying a "cloud engineer" just to fiddle with cloud config full time with <$100k/yr spend. Why would you suddenly need a full time sysop to do the same…
A lieutenant is not the captain. As a lieutenant, I don't get to just go do whatever. I advise, I provide options, I make calls that don't to up to the CEO level. I pick tech stacks, I pick how to do the things we…
> Your "freedom" is allowing kids to be abused since they don't have the checks of other adults being able to see them. At what cost? Innocent until proven guilty means that we don't treat people like criminals until…
On the other side, who's going to love them at school? Overloaded teachers? Administrators? Other still very immature students? Lack of love is a problem. School is quite clearly not a solution to that.
There is a pretty big difference between "abuse happens" and "this environment is fundamentally worse". Schools have pretty abysmal records as far as preventing abuse to children. Bullying is massive, be it…
Keep in mind that the number of devs that are inexperienced is very high. Growth in the industry has been explosive. So there is a large population of devs that just don't understand how one might reasonably live, and…
There's a lot of nuance in cloud or no cloud. You jumped right to AC and diesel. You can have a pretty sizable server capability on modern hardware before you need to touch that. I can serve what... 1M users? perhaps…
The cloud was principally designed 2005-2013 era where it was pretty reasonable for an average website to need to go multi system to support traffic spikes. CPU hardware kind of stagnated 2014-2018, while SSDs took off.…
If I'm generalizing. B2C products frequently fit but not always. B2B products generally don't but can in some circumstances.
One user can have multiple clients. This is frequently the case, many to most users have both a PC and a phone. Also when one allows reasonable sharing of the account with family, 5+ connected clients is common.
I've worked on various forms of "legacy code" for most of my career. As long as the economics line up and the customer is willing to pay for the required support, then it's a fine business avenue. If economics don't…
I work with lean, business speculative software mostly. Which means not cross-platform native development is simply not economical to do. I generally need to be able to hit Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS square on…
I'm on the fat client train with my company and I nudge my clients that way if they're open. It's just a great way to build a system.
I find that moving the full query system into the front end is where most front end devs really want to be. They want a full power query system for the data instead of continuous rounds of re-inventing the transport…
Fly them in. Give them a driver to assist them in arriving and getting to the interview. Have the driver make an obvious mistake. Circle the block or arrive a couple of minutes late. Auto-fail anyone who treats the…
If you use auto scaling services and fail to limit a recursive call to a service. You can create a giant explosion aimed at your bank account.
Or they think extensively about performance. Regardless, the switch shows they pay attention and are willing to change.
> All this complexity I learned must have been for a reason! It doesn't have to be so emotional. Htmx can be helpful to keep all your state in one place, it's simpler to reason about and make changes. Lower cognitive…
> 7. ... Another business I worked for literally hired and fired four separate teams to build an on-prem OpenStack cluster, and it was the most unstable, terrible computing platform I've used, that constantly caused…
> The bigger cost is what will happen to your business when you're hard-down for a week because all your SQL servers are down, and you don't have spares, and it will take a week to ship new servers and get them racked.…
> I'm not certain that's true if you look at TCO. Sigh. This old trope from ancient history in internet time. > Yes, you can probably buy a server for less than the yearly rent on the equivalent EC2 instance. Or a…
You're missing the purpose of the cache. At least for this argument it's mostly for network responses. HDD was 10ms, which was noticeable for cached network request that needs to go back out on the wire. This was also…
If you don't have scale, you don't need most of the features. Fire up PC, load application. Setup egress port open to internet. Setup application backup on cron job. Done until scale problems arise.
2015 called and wants it's hype back.
I ran the numbers the other day. For just compute with my particular load, my numbers say AWS costs 73928x more for lambda over my on-prem. Like for like is 1250x more. This is presuming the savings levels for being a…
Why does everyone always jump to this fiction? You probably aren't paying a "cloud engineer" just to fiddle with cloud config full time with <$100k/yr spend. Why would you suddenly need a full time sysop to do the same…
A lieutenant is not the captain. As a lieutenant, I don't get to just go do whatever. I advise, I provide options, I make calls that don't to up to the CEO level. I pick tech stacks, I pick how to do the things we…
> Your "freedom" is allowing kids to be abused since they don't have the checks of other adults being able to see them. At what cost? Innocent until proven guilty means that we don't treat people like criminals until…
On the other side, who's going to love them at school? Overloaded teachers? Administrators? Other still very immature students? Lack of love is a problem. School is quite clearly not a solution to that.
There is a pretty big difference between "abuse happens" and "this environment is fundamentally worse". Schools have pretty abysmal records as far as preventing abuse to children. Bullying is massive, be it…
Keep in mind that the number of devs that are inexperienced is very high. Growth in the industry has been explosive. So there is a large population of devs that just don't understand how one might reasonably live, and…
There's a lot of nuance in cloud or no cloud. You jumped right to AC and diesel. You can have a pretty sizable server capability on modern hardware before you need to touch that. I can serve what... 1M users? perhaps…
The cloud was principally designed 2005-2013 era where it was pretty reasonable for an average website to need to go multi system to support traffic spikes. CPU hardware kind of stagnated 2014-2018, while SSDs took off.…
If I'm generalizing. B2C products frequently fit but not always. B2B products generally don't but can in some circumstances.
One user can have multiple clients. This is frequently the case, many to most users have both a PC and a phone. Also when one allows reasonable sharing of the account with family, 5+ connected clients is common.
I've worked on various forms of "legacy code" for most of my career. As long as the economics line up and the customer is willing to pay for the required support, then it's a fine business avenue. If economics don't…
I work with lean, business speculative software mostly. Which means not cross-platform native development is simply not economical to do. I generally need to be able to hit Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS square on…
I'm on the fat client train with my company and I nudge my clients that way if they're open. It's just a great way to build a system.
I find that moving the full query system into the front end is where most front end devs really want to be. They want a full power query system for the data instead of continuous rounds of re-inventing the transport…
Fly them in. Give them a driver to assist them in arriving and getting to the interview. Have the driver make an obvious mistake. Circle the block or arrive a couple of minutes late. Auto-fail anyone who treats the…
If you use auto scaling services and fail to limit a recursive call to a service. You can create a giant explosion aimed at your bank account.