janstice

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by janstice 6y ago
The GP solution has very little in common with microservices - it’s just a load balanced architecture with specific pools for different workloads. Just like we could do in the 90s. Microservices are only microservices if they have both narr
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by janstice 6y ago
Moving to the cloud has changed this mindset somewhat - now there's no longer perpetual licenses, and we can't expect that the application will last forever, there's some consideration given to how application data can be rep
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by janstice 6y ago
One of the things I've used successfully is a decision register, where decisions are formally recorded, with the justification. This doesn't necessarily help the original decision, but it does stop a bunch of re-litigation of prev
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by janstice 6y ago
What was their target market? People for whom Shopify is too expensive or hard to implement? I'm not sure that's a valuable market. If the market is countries which are under-served by Shopify, this is a smaller list that it used
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by janstice 6y ago
Microsoft does have industry accelerators that sit on the Common Data Model & Dynamics, so ISV's (and presumably in-house devs) can write industry-specific solutions that might hopefully play nicely together: https://doc
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by janstice 6y ago
Maybe look at something where the technical skills are there, but take a second row to the business side of things - something like an RPA (robotic process automation) where the important part is working through the problem with the custome
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by janstice 6y ago
Uipath and automation anywhere seem to be big players with community/free starter editions. PWC (who are spearheading the RPA at $work) seem to have decreed that all their staff are going to use uipath worldwide. There are a handful of
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by janstice 6y ago
No, but previous workplace did fake it with a postgres-compatible front end (in node.js) which pointed to per-customer postgres schema with no data, but views/etc pointing to a multi-tenant schema with the actual data. Between the view
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by janstice 6y ago
I'm application architect at enterprise-type org. We have a few SaaS applications, but all the big dogs, including custom dev, run in-house on a dual data centre vmware environment. It's cheaper for us to spin up more VMs in-house
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by janstice 6y ago
Do you work for a tech company, or a tech department in a non-tech organisation? Having worked in both, the IT culture are quite different, and you might fit better if you swapped from one to the other. (Of course the politics are very diff
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by janstice 7y ago
The uni I work for is about to introduce this, but we're leading with transparency - everything the system sees is on a student-facing dashboard, and there's the opportunity to opt out. And we're targeting engagement rather t
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by janstice 17y ago
This is expected (and documented) behaviour - GA won't correctly track subdomains out of the box, as even though the (uncustomized) GA has subdomain-accessible cookies, the user id depends on a hash of the hostname (less any 'www.') (thats