DanielHB

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by DanielHB 3y ago
This is also why SSR JS frameworks are gaining traction. But I still think as a product grows eventually you need some kind of formal API to help separate concerns and scale teams. Even back in the multi-page application days people doing l
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by DanielHB 3y ago
It depends a lot on the product, how wide and deep your API is and the division of labor. Like are frontend and backend separate teams? do people do full stack? At some point there will be a need for some "bloated" API requests. G
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Some companies take this even further with a BFF for web, another for Android and another for iOS
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by DanielHB 3y ago
You can see how dysfunctional your backend is by the number of JOINs your frontend people need to make. I call it frontend JOIN ratio. At a job I worked at "fix it in the frontend" was a running joke.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
I haven't used Heroku in ages, but I remember it being pretty easy. Just wondering how do you "Kick off deploy of ECS" services? The solution I have currently is using: aws ecs update-service --cluster={ CLUSTER_NAME } --serv
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Is it just me or ECS is relatively complicated? I mean, it is no k8, but still you need to set up a lot of stuff to get it to work.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
That is called stack ranking and even though it is used in a lot of companies it is widely considered a bad idea. A lot of large companies don't actually use it.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
I have been using wails for our company's desktop apps: https://wails.io/ It is golang based and works pretty well, I don't know how it compares with Tauri though. We use it mainly because most of our backend code
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by DanielHB 3y ago
> All devs did was paste Google Tag Manager and/or some other script injection service to the page. In some cases the devs don't even do that and the page is modified by some proxy out in the production infrastructure. google t
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by DanielHB 3y ago
In a previous job I had to declare war against google tag manager (tool that let marketers inject random crap in your web application without developer input). Burned some bridges and didn't win, performance is still crap. After those
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Reminds me that one time I found 17 databases in our org without backups configured. All I got was a thanks from some devops guy and no manager even heard of the problem...
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Complex Forms are a solved problem within React, but it is not _standard_ so there are tons of competing implementations (from hand-rolling your own and relying mostly to a bunch of libraries that manage all sorts of things for you like tou
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by DanielHB 3y ago
oh yeah another thing: a lot of the crapiness today is from people jumping into the near-impossible _before_ the near-impossible becomes very-feasible (usually through better standards). Software can stick around for years or decades and I
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by DanielHB 3y ago
I don't people quite grasp that the evolving complexity is a consequence of people making the impossible possible. When someone achieves the impossible other people soon want to do it as well and tools come around to supporting those p
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by DanielHB 3y ago
The public charging infra is a mess, but at least you don't have to deal with watered down gas I am not joking, in Brazil it is a serious concern. People always try to fuel up only on the gas stations they trust.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Yeah this is really interesting, could make this kind of approach viable.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
So you can run NodeJS code in the browser, even though both are JS-based, NodeJS has a bunch of APIs that deal with things like file systems that the browser doesn't have. For example, imagine you have a lib that converts markdown to h
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Technically this approach puts the burden on the build toolchain, the toaster only needs a WASM runtime which is actually not that big of an ask (it is far easier to put a standalone WASM runtime in a toaster than a full browser)
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by DanielHB 3y ago
I don't think you grasp quite the implications of what I was saying, this kind of approach could take _seconds_ to even start running your python application. Large python codebases could take like a minute to start if loaded that way.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
> "it can be compiled to WebAssembly in order to run Python in the browser." I have seen this approach with C-python and NodeJS already and I think it simply not viable, what they are suggesting is compiling the runtime (the sa
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Good points, I always wondered why it took so long for NodeJS to support fetch() and WebSockets and other standard APIs. I thought those were part of V8, but I guess not!
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by DanielHB 3y ago
fair enough, relational DBs are optimised for querying so you often see tradeoffs like this.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Besides what others are saying here, data integrity is a lot easier with a relational database if your data is heavily relational. I have managed systems with <1gb of data that would have been much harder to build without primary and for
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by DanielHB 3y ago
I don't get why people keep measuring companies valuations against countries GDP, GDP is per year, valuation is total value. Meaning those are completely unrelated metrics. What makes more sense is to compare the company revenues or pr
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by DanielHB 3y ago
In my job we are using duckdb compiled to wasm in our browser-based application. We store time series data in it and can query the data to show charts and logs using SQL. We insert the data into the database as we collect it, then we query
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by DanielHB 3y ago
Some things that might greatly increase wasm usage and overall tooling: 1) Tools that run docker containers and serverless function services (like AWS lambda) to support providing a .wasm files instead 2) Garbage collection in the runtime t
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by DanielHB 3y ago
A ton of NodeJS modules are not part of V8 at all, like "fs" or "path" because those don't really make sense in a browser context. Basically everything that is not a W3C standard is probably not implemented in V8. L
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by DanielHB 3y ago
NPM used to be reaaaaaallly bad due to lack of lockfiles and how it used to handle diamond dependencies Added to the propencity of JS projects to have a ton of deps... It has mostly been sorted out by all package managers. The node_modules
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by DanielHB 3y ago
True, I actually have been underclocking my RTX 3800 to keep heat and costs down.
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by DanielHB 3y ago
ABIs are not enough, it is a huge pain in the ass to setup the function invocations, especially cross-platform. Having separate compiling and linking steps for each part of the codebase and stuff is a huge pain. I think Bun (NodeJS-compatib

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