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I'm curious about the best ways people have found to reduce cloud infrastructure costs. Has moving from a third-party service to a self-managed solution been worth the additional work required? What about simply…

I'm curious how people here estimate and evaluate the costs of IaaS/PaaS (e.g. AWS, Azure, Heroku) and third-party cloud services (e.g. Algolia, Loggly, Twilio, etc). Does cost ever influence technical decisions around…

I've run into a challenge at work that's in an area I know very little about - Windows, corporate networks, and web proxies. None of the other developers on my small engineering team know a lot about this stuff either.…

Contributing to open source projects is a great way to volunteer one's time. However, I'm curious, about other volunteer opportunities where programming skills are especially helpful. I'm imagining there might be…

Do you have anyone outside of your immediate team who you could call a mentor or mentee? If so, how did you connect with this person? Are there any organizations that help facilitate mentor-mentee relationships? It…

What resources are you finding most helpful? What is your process like? What's the biggest challenge?

Over the last few years a lot of websites have started showing pop-ups a few seconds after the visitor arrives asking them to sign up for the site's email newsletter. Often these take up the entire screen or otherwise…

What companies have radically changed profitable products or business lines to better position themselves for the future? I'm curious about companies that, despite current success, have seen the writing on the wall and…

There is a ton of buzz around chatbots these days. Major tech companies like Facebook and Microsoft are rolling out bot platforms. It seems like every day a new startup launches with a chatbot product - either a bot for…

I'm hoping to find ways to improve the code review process at the company where I work. My team has a fairly has a fairly standard github PR-based process. When you have some code you want to merge into the master…

Finding new engagements seems like one of most daunting aspects of working as an independent engineering contractor. What strategies or resources have you used to solve this problem? How do you ensure that you have a…