This is where erlang/elixir really shines! Using actor processes (aka genservers) to model business workflows and logic helps to align the programmer's and stakeholder's shared understanding and language of a feature,…
Reminds me of an awesome documentary about The Barkley Marathons called "The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats its Young". People are incredible!
Jazz hands!
Until it's 7 years later, the original developers are gone, the ticketing system has changed twice, and you have no clue why something is the way it is. When you're committing is exactly when you already have the…
Same here! What a magical and empowering feeling to just see how a website works, edit it, and see the changes immediately. A year later I was paid to make my first website and 28 years later I'm still working as a full…
Yeah, I used it quite successfully for a local nonprofit that kept most of their data in Salesforce. The eventually consistent syncing sidestepped a ton of headache for us and we could read straight from PostgreSQL. We…
It's so refreshing to hear other people understand what's really happening. How can I subscribe to these rants?
Do you remember what the research was? I keep having this argument about multitasking not being a real thing but I'd love some concrete research to back it up. I get the sense that people just feel more productive when…
The Product team uses a different version than the Engineering team
Yeah, I was shocked at comments, people completely missing the point.
This is where erlang/elixir really shines! Using actor processes (aka genservers) to model business workflows and logic helps to align the programmer's and stakeholder's shared understanding and language of a feature,…
Reminds me of an awesome documentary about The Barkley Marathons called "The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats its Young". People are incredible!
Jazz hands!
Until it's 7 years later, the original developers are gone, the ticketing system has changed twice, and you have no clue why something is the way it is. When you're committing is exactly when you already have the…
Same here! What a magical and empowering feeling to just see how a website works, edit it, and see the changes immediately. A year later I was paid to make my first website and 28 years later I'm still working as a full…
Yeah, I used it quite successfully for a local nonprofit that kept most of their data in Salesforce. The eventually consistent syncing sidestepped a ton of headache for us and we could read straight from PostgreSQL. We…
It's so refreshing to hear other people understand what's really happening. How can I subscribe to these rants?
Do you remember what the research was? I keep having this argument about multitasking not being a real thing but I'd love some concrete research to back it up. I get the sense that people just feel more productive when…
The Product team uses a different version than the Engineering team
Yeah, I was shocked at comments, people completely missing the point.