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by chipdart 2y ago
> You often can't just go off dev because other people use it while you're testing. Why do you think that other people using a cloud environment prevents you from using the environment?
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Resume chasing (...) No one does microservices for resume chasing anymore, because everyone is already doing it for practical reasons. I never came across a monolith that wasn't in the process of peeling responsibilities to either
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by chipdart 2y ago
> If your services are mostly stateless and/or your development team is very small that can work. If not, you will quickly run into problems sharing the data. No, not really. The size of your teams have zero to do with whether your
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Apart from the fact that not everyone uses Visual Studio, "connected services" appears to be something by which you can connect to existing cloud-based services. Yes. That's the point. > How does that solve the proble
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by chipdart 2y ago
> You can't compare Microsoft to your run-of-the-mill small (or even large) software shop, though. I'm talking about how Microsoft added support for connected services to Visual Studio. It's literally a tool that anyone in
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Uh, what? What man pages are you reading? Every single man page out there leads to a user experience that is at best subpar. > One of the reasons Stack Overflow is so popular is that people who can't/won't read docs c
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by chipdart 2y ago
> People just straight-up don’t want to learn. (...) but IME the majority of people in tech are incurious. They want to do their job, and get paid. Reading man pages is sadly not in that list. I don't think you know what you're
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Invariably this is an ideal and does not match up in reality. No, this does indeed match reality. At least for those who work with microservices. This is microservices 101. It's baffling how this is even being argued. We have indu
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Trying to boot the full service on a single machine required every single developer in the company installing ~50ish microservices on their machine, for things to work correctly. Became totally intractable. This is certainly one of the
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The metrics make reporting to higher ups easier, no doubt. It's not about being "easy". It's about being objective, verifiable, and demonstratably unbiased. It's about justifying how you rank the performance in
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Managers who are the sort of people who don't value helping your colleagues or being curious/concerned enough about potential security problems, are most likely the sort of people who won't pick up on any of that being a
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by chipdart 2y ago
> There's more to redis than just being a K/V store. That's perfectly fine. You can compare Redis to other specialized tools just like you can compare it with Postgres and SQLite.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> And of course storage will still be involved as again you can't have in-memory only tables. That's fine. If what you want is a single-node deployment combined with in-memory purism them SQLite has your back.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> PostgreSQL does not have the concept of in-memory tables. Is that relevant though? Some benchmarks on the web show Postgres outperforming Redis in reads as well as low-volume writes (less than 1k key-value pairs), and Redis only beatin
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Because everyone insists on insanely distributed architectures, most people will never really see the point of Redis, which is that if it is running on the same machine as the application, it can respond in much less than a millisecond
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Applying FEM to real-life problems can involve the resolving of quite a lot of "little" practical and theoretical gotchas, bugs, etc. FEM at it's core ends up being just a technique to find approximate solutions to probl
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by chipdart 2y ago
> IGA has a lot of potential to solve many of the pain points of FEM. Isn't IGA's shtick just replacing classical shape functions with the splines used to specify the geometry? If I recall correctly convergence rates are exactl
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The situation of messages vs events is analogous to append-only database vs update-in-place database. You get exposed to the same issues at scale if you rely on the later. Not really. Messages vs events is a foundational design trait w
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by chipdart 2y ago
I submitted this link after reading this gem of a discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004508
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Killing the Command message: should we use Events or Documents? (2007)(learn.microsoft.com)
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by chipdart 2y ago
> (...) and a consumer of that event goes back to the source of the event to query the full state of that customer 123, it may have been updated again (or even deleted) since the event was emitted. So the entity was updated. What's
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Distributed locks and transactions are hell. Which distributed transaction scenario have you ever dealt with that wasn't correctly handled by a two-phase commit or at worst a three-phase commit?
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by chipdart 2y ago
> If you're a using a message queue (...) Events and messages are entirely different things. They might look similar, but their responsibilities are completely different. The scenario you're describing matches the usecases for
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by chipdart 2y ago
> (...) but it all turned out to be a smoke and mirrors show because the hardware is optimized for one particular benchmark they didn't even reference in their comparisons? I know iOS developers who recently upgraded their MacBooks
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Yeah, better than the glaring, 10x better than i7 Intel Mac. Like that's even a valid point of reference. The last Intel macbook pros were released 4 years ago. Their owners are starting to shop around for replacements. Their ques
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Are you implying there are no use cases for matrix multiply? The whole point is that these highly specialized scenarios are only featured in very specialized usecases, and don't reflect in overall performance. We've been deal
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by chipdart 2y ago
> So you're saying Apple added something to the design to make it do things faster... I think the whole point is that microbenchmarks provide no data in overall performance. They just test very specific and by no means common use ca
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Yes, the M4 is faster (...) I know a couple of iOS developers who recently switched to a M4 MacBook pro and they swear that in some frequent workloads it feels sluggish and slower than the old Intel MacBook pros. Being RAM-starved migh
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by chipdart 2y ago
> This is an honest question for people still using X/Twitter and yet complaining about it: why? I agree. Just stop using it already. What's the value of subscribing to a Kremlin bot sandbox? Sometimes these complaints just sou
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by chipdart 2y ago
> How can an algorithm determine whether content is political or not? For starters, cross-referencing it with popular propaganda talking points. Smear campaigns are a dead giveaway, and adding two or three topics should be enough to cove

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