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React is not boring. We have to use a 64 gig machine to build one of our React things and it takes 45 minutes to do so. I'm literally on a meeting now trying t

by hggigg 2y ago

React is not boring. We have to use a 64 gig machine to build one of our React things and it takes 45 minutes to do so. I'm literally on a meeting now trying to work out how to make it boring again.

Uehreka 2y ago
That sounds like an architecture issue. In 10 years I’ve used React for a wide variety of projects from digital publishing tools to realtime medical dashboards to WebRTC-based videoconferencing apps with 3D graphics. I’ve never seen a build require anything like that much horsepower or time.
- hggigg 2y ago
  Ah yes but you likely aren’t at the mercy of the lowest bidders!
defofboring 2y ago
That’s the definition of boring in tech. Before modern web dev practices my team was notified a dev had started the wipe/reinstall OS process on a 1,000 bare metal lab desktops and servers due to a bug in their deployment script From prior experience I knew only the OS partition had been nuked so far not old data. So my team collected the disks, closed a campus computer, connected disks via USB adapters, shorted the two pins on ATX power supplies to provide power to the disks and booted from the lab machines it was all connected to into a live USB Linux system where we ran recovery tools on ~600-700 SATA disks (some servers had been snapshotted to backup and didn’t need the effort) That was the most interesting day in tech I’ve ever worked and I started my career designing add on boards for a company that sold to Nortel before they imploded; my output literally shipped late 90s-early 00s internet users packets around Noodling if else and for loops day in and day around some biz context I don’t care about but some Harvard grad has seed money to advertise is the lamest; the 2010s, an entire decade if my career and since, has been really boring.

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React is not boring. We have to use a 64 gig machine to build one of our React things and it takes 45 minutes to do so. I'm literally on a meeting now trying t

by hggigg 2y ago

React is not boring. We have to use a 64 gig machine to build one of our React things and it takes 45 minutes to do so. I'm literally on a meeting now trying to work out how to make it boring again.

Uehreka 2y ago
That sounds like an architecture issue. In 10 years I’ve used React for a wide variety of projects from digital publishing tools to realtime medical dashboards to WebRTC-based videoconferencing apps with 3D graphics. I’ve never seen a build require anything like that much horsepower or time.
- hggigg 2y ago
  Ah yes but you likely aren’t at the mercy of the lowest bidders!
defofboring 2y ago
That’s the definition of boring in tech. Before modern web dev practices my team was notified a dev had started the wipe/reinstall OS process on a 1,000 bare metal lab desktops and servers due to a bug in their deployment script From prior experience I knew only the OS partition had been nuked so far not old data. So my team collected the disks, closed a campus computer, connected disks via USB adapters, shorted the two pins on ATX power supplies to provide power to the disks and booted from the lab machines it was all connected to into a live USB Linux system where we ran recovery tools on ~600-700 SATA disks (some servers had been snapshotted to backup and didn’t need the effort) That was the most interesting day in tech I’ve ever worked and I started my career designing add on boards for a company that sold to Nortel before they imploded; my output literally shipped late 90s-early 00s internet users packets around Noodling if else and for loops day in and day around some biz context I don’t care about but some Harvard grad has seed money to advertise is the lamest; the 2010s, an entire decade if my career and since, has been really boring.