foffoofof

5 ms·

1.
by foffoofof 3y ago
> JVM and .NET runtime Maybe I'm too caught up in startup-land, as I haven't touched these tools in a long time. The debugging tools and IDE support on these platforms have always been great. The Visual Studio install time, the
2.
by foffoofof 3y ago
> isn't a black box of magic Referring mostly to the query planner - you have no control over it, and you have to dive deep to figure out why it's making certain plans, and how it collects statistics to make these calls. Plus t
3.
by foffoofof 3y ago
My guess is ADHD people are drawn to the software industry. Open source is probably fueled by it. It’s a spectrum and I think a lot more people are on the spectrum than they realize. It’s a constant pursuit for new stuff. Sometimes this can
4.
by foffoofof 3y ago
I found a similar thing with Node.js. There are tons of under maintained packages while everyone moved to Go and Rust. A lot of packages you never care what’s underneath if they are maintained and do the job. But when you have to manually p
5.
by foffoofof 3y ago
> set of opinions about stack The stack doesn't exist today. It could have if we didn't jump so quickly to new technology and all these different prog languages. I've just never heard someone pitch new tech with: "eas
6.
by foffoofof 3y ago
Serverless in the way we do it today is the best example of something that is impossible to debug. Every choice people have to make in tech today comes with this crazy tradeoff of where you get some benefit like scalability, but then it bec
7.
by foffoofof 3y ago
Relational dbs are based on relational model. It’s a giant black box of magic. And it’s magic is based on a bunch of constraints to make the relational algebra work. It’s really quite flawed for modern web apps.
8.
by foffoofof 3y ago
Try streaming updates to a query without polling…which is essentially all web apps. It’s fundamentally the wrong approach and people don’t realize. The relational model is good for analytics. Think about how often you need to know the inter
9.
by foffoofof 3y ago
Even monorepos are not perfect for evolving to microservices. It’s incredibly hard to refactor generally. We still lack good monorepo tooling. Tests take huge amounts of time to run. Multiple languages becomes painful especially ones with s
10.
by foffoofof 3y ago
Agreed re: jvm and .net. It’s easy to imagine a resurgence in the future.
11.
by foffoofof 3y ago
Is jvm pg and k8s boring enough? K8s is overkill. Jvm is heavy. Pg is fine but relational dbs generally suck.
12.
by foffoofof 3y ago
The whole industry is stupid at this point. I don’t think anyone knows what they are doing. Everyone just wants to play with the new shiny thing. Half the engineers probably have ADHD which leads to this behavior of seeking novelty. Everyon
13.
by foffoofof 3y ago
Initially I wanted Ukraine to kick Russia’s ass. Nothing else mattered. It was just so unprovoked and unfair. I wanted Europe to act sooner and faster. But then I lost interest in the conflict and stopped following it daily like I think man