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by kfk 3y ago
Right, more vendor lock-in. I don't know what companies are thinking when buying into this Azure ecosystem. It will put you at the complete control of Microsoft for all your Cloud needs. I totally get it, Microsoft has control of deskt
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by kfk 3y ago
I think for Enterprise you should include professional services and consulting in TCO. And usually the Enterprise SaaS tools you mention are a bit cheaper on licenses, but very expensive on the consulting. It makes sense because if a tool i
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by kfk 3y ago
sure, feel free
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by kfk 3y ago
On your question, We welcome Seniors even few hours a week, especially if you are happy to work on architecture and documentation. Plus we are based out of Tenerife if you want to work from an office and there is a lot of surfing on the isl
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by kfk 3y ago
I am getting a bit deeper into the food industry since I started investing in a startup that plans to produce animal feed with insects. Animal feeds are prepared with specific properties, for instance, fish feed at 60% protein. The impact o
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by kfk 3y ago
I have an Enterprise story on this. The low code tool I was using increased the price x10 on me after the first 3 years. The price increase was poorly managed, they looped me out and tried to talk directly to the IT leadership which was a d
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by kfk 4y ago
interesting, in my case I need the events to be inserted in a SQL db, even the real time ones. For instance, I receive Contacts data from Hubspot in realtime, I send those contacts over to Salesforce and I store them in Postgres. Why Postgr
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by kfk 4y ago
We are experimenting with workers using the simple python arq library and Redis and I am yet to find a MLOps or Data Engineering use case that is not a good fit for a API+Worker on K8S. For instance, you need to manage ML artifacts? You can
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by kfk 4y ago
The sensible thing to do at this point is to have a hybrid setup and being able to move load between Cloud providers and from/to on-prem. I understand this is not always practical, but it is going to be a big lever to keep costs down.
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by kfk 4y ago
I think we disagree on the problem and I understand I have a strong opinion which might be wrong. But I think that kind of thinking is exactly the issue in Italy. I think if the "people" took responsibility for their actions Italy
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by kfk 4y ago
I was reading somewhere that Poland will overtake Italy in GDP pro capita in 10-20 years. True or not Poland is doing much better than Italy already. I think it’s interesting that a country that was 50 years under a dictatorship was able to
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by kfk 4y ago
Salaries doubled in 3 years for certain IT professions pushed by the Covid online spike I assume. In my company we were hiring and we kept getting candidates with less and less experience asking for more and more money. IT salaries went up
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by kfk 4y ago
an interesting approach, how about doing the heavy lifting in an api backend and pushing/pulling data to the sheet using a custom formula? that way you would be able to leverage the full power of a db backend
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by kfk 4y ago
I lived 9 years in Germany, now in Poland. For me the fact that in Poland a programmer earns significantly more than a Financial Controller was an initial shock a few years ago. But now I understand the problem is with Germany’s stubborn at
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by kfk 4y ago
Within the data world, I am especially confused by usage-based pricing _and_ the push towards data mesh. In a data mesh you now have hundreds of data analysts in your company… all needing access (and driving consumption) to the data lake an
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by kfk 4y ago
Talent is harder to scale than tech, context is important.
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by kfk 4y ago
Cool take, come back to me on how well this thinking worked when you start landing Enterprise customers and you suddenly need to 10x your talent pool. You use bare metal servers? It will be a lot harder to find devops talent with k8s being
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by kfk 4y ago
I use mkdocs for my company and it works great. To be honest, before I trust any business process with software from a US company I think what would happen if they double or triple their price on me, which they usually do. Plus if you have
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by kfk 4y ago
I thought the same but having worked 2 years close to CIOs I have realized their job is quite hard as it is. CIOs have to navigate hundreds of technologies and each vendor wants their cut, sometimes US startups are the worst… so choosing an
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by kfk 4y ago
For animal feed we will start with that, but I am finding hard to imagine that clean organic waste is not being used already in some other way? Meaning, probably we need to pay for it?
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by kfk 4y ago
I am the angel investor of a small startup trying to scale insect larvae production. The idea is to use larvae as a more eco friendly animal feed. I am still collecting numbers, but I was wondering if planting biomass to grow insect protein
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by kfk 4y ago
mid to senior with no work experience seems quite unrealistic… work experience is not only a proxy for shipping code, but also for working well in a team, communicating well, being dependable and… so much more.
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by kfk 4y ago
I run a small data consulting company and whenever I find an open minded data scientist or analyst I tell them to consider data and software engineering or business analytics (learning about real business problems). DA, BA and SE roles are
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by kfk 4y ago
I think for email there are good alternatives, but for docs and sheets not so much?
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by kfk 4y ago
The problem here is the idea that offshore country labor arbitrage can give you ridicolous cost savings way over 50% compared to local resources. Of course this is pipe dreams and especially with remote work good people have a cost, no matt
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by kfk 4y ago
You could start by adding your email address to your bio on HN. We hire freelancers in Europe for work, so maybe we could talk? We are located in Krakow and Tenerife.
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by kfk 4y ago
You can research CDPs like Segment.io, not API only, but close. The thing with selling APIs only is that business people tend to want to pay less for things they cannot see. So I would suggest a really good API with some UI for business use
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by kfk 4y ago
We hire people like this in dyvenia to help train and mentor our devops employees. If you have experience and knowledge that can be a good path for a part time.
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by kfk 4y ago
There are many things I don’t want to do… which is why I prefer to work on things I can sell at high margins. Those high margins help me hire people to do things I am not good at nor I like. But it is also a question of velocity, picking a
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by kfk 4y ago
There is a space for that for sure, but when things get serious, the programming bit is 10% of the capability, domain knowledge, data expertise and SQL become more relevant. Those skills are not fulfilled with UI tools. Sometimes in fact UI

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