cachemiss

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by cachemiss 11y ago
So I'd modify these a bit. We run a very large AWS infrastructure as a engineering team (no dedicated ops). 1. Use CloudFormation only for infrastructure that largely doesn't change. Like VPC's, subnets/ internet gateway
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by cachemiss 11y ago
Fair enough, I won't try and convince you, FWIW I hope you are right, it's my home city and I want it to be a great place again.
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by cachemiss 11y ago
So I can speak from experience here, on both ends. I was recruited back to upstate NY after moving away for about 200k to run an engineering team, I make a bit north of that on the west coast. I turned it down without even thinking about
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by cachemiss 11y ago
It's not, the issue is that the market is so small, that even if you are paying really well, no one else is. So if things go south, you're going to have to move.
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by cachemiss 11y ago
The issue is the taxes and the brain drain. It's impossible to keep people there (I'm a native of upstate NY and have recruited developers). We kept losing people to NYC and West Coast based companies before we could even offer.
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by cachemiss 11y ago
I think that's pretty dismissive of people with experience. Learning the latest stacks isn't particularly hard, and it's really not that valuable (especially if it's in webdev) It depends on what you are doing, tech is h
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by cachemiss 11y ago
Yeah, he's comparing one of the best optimized ring buffers on the JVM to actual transactions, that's one of the worst comparisons I've ever seen. I've shipped large scale systems on .NET and on the JVM, the issues you r