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by Mo3 4y ago
You’re right, most, especially almost all of the smaller and medium-sized SWE companies are owned by individuals, but we sure do have corporations here as well. They look similar to any other US institution on the inside, but are obviously
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by Mo3 4y ago
> Again, that's your opinion that it's unreasonable. First of all, I specifically started off my original post saying that everything that followed is my subjective, personal opinion and experiences. What exactly did you expect
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by Mo3 4y ago
> But the data doesn't back that up. According to the EU, the US has 40% higher GDP per capita [1] compared to the EU. And that's according to the EU, which has to be the most biased source possible. The US is the richest count
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by Mo3 4y ago
Yeah, but we see much more of it again.
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by Mo3 4y ago
> Is that because of higher government overhead (taxes, regulations) or is it because of some other reason? I doubt it's because of competition, because US companies compete in Europe just fine. I assume it's simply because we
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by Mo3 4y ago
No, that’s really just picking out the bad apples in the face of undeniable statistics. I could do the same for the US now but then we’d end up with almost the whole apple tree I’m also not saying that we don’t have problems in Europe eithe
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by Mo3 4y ago
Of course its dysfunctional, that’s what I’m saying, but a dysfunctional company like this would go bankrupt in Europe while it is almost (besides the examples mentioned by you) the norm in the US. And then, consider how many of your awesom
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by Mo3 4y ago
Oh, yeah, you’re right. I only know about the Japanese work environments but that’s already more than enough. It’s like end-stage America
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by Mo3 4y ago
I know, I am European and am the CTO for a US-based institution these days. Of course the same mechanisms of management exist here also, but in no way, shape or form in the same way they do in the US. It’s still like night and day on averag
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by Mo3 4y ago
That’s a phenomenon I have observed mostly only in US-based companies I have worked for.
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by Mo3 4y ago
Funny story. I would love to know what their product was. I understand you are bound by the NDA, but maybe you can share some of the surface?
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by Mo3 4y ago
AWS Amplify and Firebase However I have to admit that we don't necessarily run the "target" applications that Vercel was really designed for. We have a full suite of Lambda backend services that communicate with each other in
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by Mo3 4y ago
.. a traditional LAMP stack is not in any way comparable to what Vercel (and other similar services) offer. We don't use Vercel either for it is slower and offers less functionality than competitors but comparing the general concept to
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by Mo3 4y ago
> I feel like learning how to configure bird, bind, haproxy, rdbms clusters, redundant MXs, etc. has taught me far more than spinning up equivalent virtual infrastructure on a public cloud would have. I agree with this, but the choice of
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by Mo3 4y ago
I realize, but I still disagree with one of your points: > My counter point (and the one you keep dodging) is that the things that are EASY to do yourself aren't fucking cheap in the cloud, and they scale out just fine for the vast
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by Mo3 4y ago
The choice is only crystal clear until AWS etc implement hard caps to activate if needed. Then having some Lambda functions is not only exponentially cheaper than a whole dedicated server and by default highly available and redundant, but a
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by Mo3 4y ago
> I too can spin up hundreds of subnets for nothing. Really? In completely different physical locations with inter-region routing and NAT gateways for each region that route into a redundant load balancer? Then you're right and don&
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by Mo3 4y ago
> With all due respect, I don't think you've ever actually put together a local cluster. I have, and still do. It's neither redundant nor highly available. The power source isn't, the internet connection isn't an
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by Mo3 4y ago
How's that bad? Isn't this how we all learned? By playing with cool modern technology?
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by Mo3 4y ago
DynamoDB is not required to use cloud functions. You can either use regular RDS like you said, Aurora or even just your own EC2-based cluster (all of these you can attach to the VPC the functions are attached to as well) and there's a
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by Mo3 4y ago
Of course you are paying more for AWS than for a damn raspberry pi.
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by Mo3 4y ago
Obviously the billing mechanism (or, lack of control) is an issue but that doesn't negate the whole concept. They could (and should) easily fix this by implementing hard caps to activate if so required.
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by Mo3 4y ago
Why? If you had the choice between complete redundancy and infinite scaling by default while having almost zero work, or using a dedicated server that you need to configure and constantly maintain, what would you choose?
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by Mo3 4y ago
I completely agree with you. I really suspect some people have never seen themselves how insanely, mind-bogglingly powerful AWS is. Try doing this [0] with your dedicated servers in under 10 minutes. And then try attaching highly-available
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by Mo3 4y ago
I don’t know about that, the hedge fund I work for is US-based and AWS can be fully SEC and FINRA compliant. We also have a few dedicated servers, but mostly only for infrequently accessed data and logging that doesn’t need to be highly ava
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by Mo3 4y ago
This is such a narrow perspective. It’s not always about load, most applications can benefit from some level of redundancy and using AWS etc doesn’t equal a massive scaling operation forced upon you. In fact, the other options would. I&#x27
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by Mo3 4y ago
You're going to understand where the cool kids come from once your single dedicated server goes down or can't handle the load any more. As soon as you try to scale horizontally or become highly available and start to think about h
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by Mo3 4y ago
Cool, so we should just stop building and running almost anything in existence because it's not all-encompassing? That sounds like a suboptimal path forward.
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by Mo3 4y ago
> 3. Don't get clever with Kubernetes networking. In fact, touch it as little as possible and hope really hard it continues to work. This one.
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