Let’s not romanticize it too much... A lot of enterprise systems are built by developers copying an old AbstractBeanFactoryFactory from a 2011 stack overflow thread without really understanding it :)
The EU as a whole is walking a tightrope. Its largest economies still depend heavily on the US market. If the current US regime perceives that US companies are being targeted by EU "taxes", regardless of whether those…
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The problem is that it encourages people to use excel for things that should never be in a spreadsheet in the first place. I mean if you're reaching for VBA, building complex PowerQuery pipelines, and writing nested…
It's pretty common for business contracts to just end up stuck on mainframes or scattered across various systems from vendors like Oracle (the paper trails are often thrown away long time ago). And let's be honest, a…
Playing devil's advocate... Yeah, the ad supported model has its problems, but it also makes the internet way more accessible. If we think about it, companies and people with more money are basically subsidizing these…
Yes, but that's partly a consequence of how the German electricity market operates and the neglected state of its infrastructure, isn't it? Wind power and other intermittent sources create grid instability, which drives…
Well, many industries rely on advertising to sell their products, and I wouldn't say those industries are inherently worse than others.
I understand your point of view, and I'm not saying you don't have a point. But something tells me that you would take a more pragmatic approach if your livelihood or that of a close relative were directly affected by…
Agree, and Cloud Run's upcoming application canvas feature appears to offer a simple way to integrate the various GCP services together seamlessly without much hassle.
> Unpopular opinion: I blame the new age devops culture that made cloud app deployments unnecessarily complicated with k8s and cool new tech (that'd get them high profile jobs.)... Ah yes, time for the annual debate on…
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but one issue I've faced when integrating third-party external systems with Pub/Sub and Cloud Run is the lack of an easy way to throttle the data flow when the external system falls…
Same here! We're fans of Cloud Run at my company, but it'd be great if they made it easier to pull messages from Pub/Sub using Cloud Run. Sometimes you just don't want push.
I'm really excited about this as a customer. We're probably going to be able to save a lot of money because of it. So now, with the new Postgres compatibility layer and the "lower cost", it will be easier for me to…
It will also be interesting to follow how the development of solar and wind power will affect the stability of the electricity grid and the ability to prevent large fluctuations in frequency.
What precisely would that solve in this case? Previous attempts to nationalize companies have not, as far as I know, been a shining success?
Unfortunately, I'm not so sure there's a quick fix for this. Both nuclear, water and gas have the advantage that they're pretty massive and can store energy while they rotate. In the past, these systems were great for…
Right, solar and wind, although relatively cheap to produce, unfortunately, face challenges when it comes to energy storage. These types of industries require stability.
It's sadly not that surprising. Germany has a lot of heavy industries that require access to relatively low and stable energy prices. Furthermore, given the changed world situation regarding energy and the lack of…
I know I'm going against the grain here, but I'm actually looking forward to the event and plan to watch it :)
This site is a bit: "4 Polacks, 6 opinions" -Frank Sobotka
Sure, but they might be the ones paying your salary today. So hard to ignore the group of people who keep you afloat? :)
The US-based cloud providers also have European subsidiaries. But that doesn't help because they are bound by US law. That is the root of the problem. What makes you think that a European company operating within US…
Not sure I follow, in what way are they better? Imho, as soon as you do business with the US or trade in US Dollars, you need to play nice with the relevant authorities. If I understood it correctly, Hetzner is now…
Yeah, it's almost always about money. People do not want to pay, it's that simple. They don't want to admit it, therefore they often come up with varying arguments such as "the changes comes too fast, hassle to change,…
Let’s not romanticize it too much... A lot of enterprise systems are built by developers copying an old AbstractBeanFactoryFactory from a 2011 stack overflow thread without really understanding it :)
The EU as a whole is walking a tightrope. Its largest economies still depend heavily on the US market. If the current US regime perceives that US companies are being targeted by EU "taxes", regardless of whether those…
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The problem is that it encourages people to use excel for things that should never be in a spreadsheet in the first place. I mean if you're reaching for VBA, building complex PowerQuery pipelines, and writing nested…
It's pretty common for business contracts to just end up stuck on mainframes or scattered across various systems from vendors like Oracle (the paper trails are often thrown away long time ago). And let's be honest, a…
Playing devil's advocate... Yeah, the ad supported model has its problems, but it also makes the internet way more accessible. If we think about it, companies and people with more money are basically subsidizing these…
Yes, but that's partly a consequence of how the German electricity market operates and the neglected state of its infrastructure, isn't it? Wind power and other intermittent sources create grid instability, which drives…
Well, many industries rely on advertising to sell their products, and I wouldn't say those industries are inherently worse than others.
I understand your point of view, and I'm not saying you don't have a point. But something tells me that you would take a more pragmatic approach if your livelihood or that of a close relative were directly affected by…
Agree, and Cloud Run's upcoming application canvas feature appears to offer a simple way to integrate the various GCP services together seamlessly without much hassle.
> Unpopular opinion: I blame the new age devops culture that made cloud app deployments unnecessarily complicated with k8s and cool new tech (that'd get them high profile jobs.)... Ah yes, time for the annual debate on…
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but one issue I've faced when integrating third-party external systems with Pub/Sub and Cloud Run is the lack of an easy way to throttle the data flow when the external system falls…
Same here! We're fans of Cloud Run at my company, but it'd be great if they made it easier to pull messages from Pub/Sub using Cloud Run. Sometimes you just don't want push.
I'm really excited about this as a customer. We're probably going to be able to save a lot of money because of it. So now, with the new Postgres compatibility layer and the "lower cost", it will be easier for me to…
It will also be interesting to follow how the development of solar and wind power will affect the stability of the electricity grid and the ability to prevent large fluctuations in frequency.
What precisely would that solve in this case? Previous attempts to nationalize companies have not, as far as I know, been a shining success?
Unfortunately, I'm not so sure there's a quick fix for this. Both nuclear, water and gas have the advantage that they're pretty massive and can store energy while they rotate. In the past, these systems were great for…
Right, solar and wind, although relatively cheap to produce, unfortunately, face challenges when it comes to energy storage. These types of industries require stability.
It's sadly not that surprising. Germany has a lot of heavy industries that require access to relatively low and stable energy prices. Furthermore, given the changed world situation regarding energy and the lack of…
I know I'm going against the grain here, but I'm actually looking forward to the event and plan to watch it :)
This site is a bit: "4 Polacks, 6 opinions" -Frank Sobotka
Sure, but they might be the ones paying your salary today. So hard to ignore the group of people who keep you afloat? :)
The US-based cloud providers also have European subsidiaries. But that doesn't help because they are bound by US law. That is the root of the problem. What makes you think that a European company operating within US…
Not sure I follow, in what way are they better? Imho, as soon as you do business with the US or trade in US Dollars, you need to play nice with the relevant authorities. If I understood it correctly, Hetzner is now…
Yeah, it's almost always about money. People do not want to pay, it's that simple. They don't want to admit it, therefore they often come up with varying arguments such as "the changes comes too fast, hassle to change,…