baridbelmedar

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by baridbelmedar 24d ago
Let’s not romanticize it too much... A lot of enterprise systems are built by developers copying an old AbstractBeanFactoryFactory from a 2011 stack overflow thread without really understanding it :)
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by baridbelmedar 2mo ago
The EU as a whole is walking a tightrope. Its largest economies still depend heavily on the US market. If the current US regime perceives that US companies are being targeted by EU "taxes", regardless of whether those laws are leg
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by baridbelmedar 3mo ago
I'm not sure the "a year of document processing for under 100 USD/y" is such as great thing as you think it is (at least not for European competitiveness)... It means Mistral is essentially setting a revenue ceiling very
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by baridbelmedar 6mo ago
The problem is that it encourages people to use excel for things that should never be in a spreadsheet in the first place. I mean if you're reaching for VBA, building complex PowerQuery pipelines, and writing nested LAMBDA functions ju
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by baridbelmedar 1y ago
It's pretty common for business contracts to just end up stuck on mainframes or scattered across various systems from vendors like Oracle (the paper trails are often thrown away long time ago). And let's be honest, a lot of folks
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by baridbelmedar 2y ago
Playing devil's advocate... Yeah, the ad supported model has its problems, but it also makes the internet way more accessible. If we think about it, companies and people with more money are basically subsidizing these services for ever
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by baridbelmedar 2y ago
Yes, but that's partly a consequence of how the German electricity market operates and the neglected state of its infrastructure, isn't it? Wind power and other intermittent sources create grid instability, which drives up costs.
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by baridbelmedar 2y ago
Well, many industries rely on advertising to sell their products, and I wouldn't say those industries are inherently worse than others.
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by baridbelmedar 2y ago
I understand your point of view, and I'm not saying you don't have a point. But something tells me that you would take a more pragmatic approach if your livelihood or that of a close relative were directly affected by the company&
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by baridbelmedar 2y ago
Agree, and Cloud Run's upcoming application canvas feature appears to offer a simple way to integrate the various GCP services together seamlessly without much hassle.
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
Imho, I think we've gone a bit overboard with Terraform at my company. Sure, it'll automate a bunch of stuff, but only a handful of people will really "get" it. I think the rest of us who interact with it don't rea
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
> Unpopular opinion: I blame the new age devops culture that made cloud app deployments unnecessarily complicated with k8s and cool new tech (that'd get them high profile jobs.)... Ah yes, time for the annual debate on the complexit
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but one issue I've faced when integrating third-party external systems with Pub/Sub and Cloud Run is the lack of an easy way to throttle the data flow when the external system falls behin
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
Same here! We're fans of Cloud Run at my company, but it'd be great if they made it easier to pull messages from Pub/Sub using Cloud Run. Sometimes you just don't want push.
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
I'm really excited about this as a customer. We're probably going to be able to save a lot of money because of it. So now, with the new Postgres compatibility layer and the "lower cost", it will be easier for me to choos
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
It will also be interesting to follow how the development of solar and wind power will affect the stability of the electricity grid and the ability to prevent large fluctuations in frequency.
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
What precisely would that solve in this case? Previous attempts to nationalize companies have not, as far as I know, been a shining success?
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
Unfortunately, I'm not so sure there's a quick fix for this. Both nuclear, water and gas have the advantage that they're pretty massive and can store energy while they rotate. In the past, these systems were great for the gri
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
Right, solar and wind, although relatively cheap to produce, unfortunately, face challenges when it comes to energy storage. These types of industries require stability.
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
It's sadly not that surprising. Germany has a lot of heavy industries that require access to relatively low and stable energy prices. Furthermore, given the changed world situation regarding energy and the lack of developed nuclear pow
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
I know I'm going against the grain here, but I'm actually looking forward to the event and plan to watch it :)
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by baridbelmedar 3y ago
Huh, can't I get this service for free or at most $1 a month...What are you saying? :)
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
Interesting, it's somewhat surprising that he's the one saying this...I still don't get why Google chose to buy AppSheet. There were far better options available for them to buy. In my opinion, it would have been better for G
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
This site is a bit: "4 Polacks, 6 opinions" -Frank Sobotka
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
Sure, but they might be the ones paying your salary today. So hard to ignore the group of people who keep you afloat? :)
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
The US-based cloud providers also have European subsidiaries. But that doesn't help because they are bound by US law. That is the root of the problem. What makes you think that a European company operating within US jurisdiction would
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
Not sure I follow, in what way are they better? Imho, as soon as you do business with the US or trade in US Dollars, you need to play nice with the relevant authorities. If I understood it correctly, Hetzner is now "infected" in t
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
Yeah, it's almost always about money. People do not want to pay, it's that simple. They don't want to admit it, therefore they often come up with varying arguments such as "the changes comes too fast, hassle to change, y
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
Imho, Spanner used to be on the expensive side. But with the introduction of "compute units" and now 4TB storage per node, the price for Spanner looks pretty great. Links: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/doc
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by baridbelmedar 4y ago
Google seems to be working on offering Postgres interface compatibility to Spanner as well: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/postgresql-interface

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