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Programming languages, frameworks etc are just there for developer ergonomics, code reuse and human understanding. If we generate so much code using AI that no one is really looking or reading the code anymore, just…

Anyone else? Sure, I've added no new functionality, but my patterns are clean, signatures become more symmetrical, I take time to think about some odd choices and really figure out what needs to happen. Leaves me…

Lots of people showcasing their CRUD apps and prototypes built using AI. How are things on the enterprise side? Large existing codebases, detailed requirements, lots of interconnected features and dependencies. Any…

I have been contemplating how to properly permission agents, chat bots, RAG pipelines to ensure only permitted context is evaluated by tools when fulfilling requests. How are people handling this? I am thinking about…

The humble chat thread is rapidly becoming the defacto interface to information for so many right now. Search results no longer take you to web pages but a composed answer at the top of the search results. Do you even…

Does anyone have a universal file access layer / library to recommend which can be run local and works across various protocols, cloud providers and auth mechanisms ideally with an API?

Why isn't the default email reply behavior "reply all" vs just "reply to sender" as is the current convention?

Our company was bought some time ago by a private equity firm which also has many other holdings than us. Our company holds many excellent people in key roles. We are increasingly spending our time on helping the equity…

How do you track business processes, measure their performance, report on KPIs or maybe even do some predictive analytics in order to get ahead of a problem? Think tracking an order fulfillment process like Amazon or…

Ironically, I am part of said management but I feel like all other hiring managers ,around and above me, don't even know what "excellent" engineering talent looks like. Most of my peers are mainly concerns with…

I am just curious how people here approach documenting various operations and support aspects of their applications and systems? I have traditionally put together runbooks for new hires or NOC/support teams with…

On one hand I fully understand there are differences in language and specific features available depending on framework out there. On the other hand, if a framework "correctly" implements the underlying statistical…

Think about it...thousands if not millions of devices on different networks, hardware, OS, patches being made to act in unison by some hacker code... Meanwhile, it sometimes takes many tries to install a simple docker…

There is a lot going on in the docker landscape and especially around container management, monitoring etc. I seem to see more innovation around docker coming out of companies other than Docker. Will Docker be another…

At our company we use java with maven and Jenkins to build our components (Spring boot fat jars), push them to a private maven repo and then build a docker image of that build and push that to a private docker repo. We…

Does anyone know of, or think, a system for measuring useful developer performance metrics? I was thinking of something which is purely data driven, connects to build, source control, code quality metrics reports etc…

We are considering building our own scrappy big data cluster but want to do this at an extreme low budget. Since it will only be used by our own internal data sciences team for analysis and experimentation, we don't…

We have a data quality problem. We run a large analytics and real time decisioning pipeline operating on thousands of different parameters per event. We source this data from many different source both inside and…

A friend and I are brainstorming ways to fix customer service. It seems to us that in today's environment, businesses should already have all the information in real time to know when I'm experiencing a problem with…

As a solo founder I often wonder how long my SaaS application could survive without me. How long would it take my customers to notice I had been struck by the proverbial bus? I haven't had to reboot a single of my…

I've been a backend Java dev for the last 12+ years but am trying to get more productive by switching to a more "modern" dynamic language. Recently however, I gave up in frustration trying Groovy + Grails + Gradle due…

As part of our signup process, we capture contact information. We are trying to improve our onboarding process and conversion funnel with relevant emails depending on what the prospect has or hasn't completed. How do…

We are getting ready to launch our new SaaS but if we do it ASAP (as most people seem to recommend), this would happen right between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our service has nothing to do with the holidays. Will our…

Given the unpredictability of demand, I am curious how people went about sizing their infrastructure for Beta. I presume the tradeoffs where cost vs performance/stability. What was your setup and did you end up under or…

We are attempting to bootstrap our image processing service (http://www.pixtulate.com) and are getting ready to roll out our BETA. Naturally cash strapped, I am working out a minimum systems arch setup and trying to…