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by mjfisher 7y ago
I think React would be a pretty good example of the kind of thing I'm talking about, actually. Just to be clear: I like React and I'm building a product with it right now of my own free choice. It does what it was built to do very
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by mjfisher 7y ago
Yes, it is absolutely more limited. That, single-IP load balancers, and no direct equivalent of VPCs spring to mind as the biggest differences. AWS still makes a lot of sense in a lot of cases. It is worth noting DO has a decent API, so if
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> Don't you think that a lot of wizbang software developers just want to use latest and greatest buzzword thing Yes, absolutely, and it drives me up the wall. I've seen some incredibly unsuitable technology choices made, the co
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by mjfisher 7y ago
That's exactly how I manage it too. It means there only needs to be one load balancer per cluster, and adding a new SSL cert is just a matter of adding a couple of lines to the ingress config.
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> Kubernetes feels like an insane complexity There's two things there - the complexity of engineering the cluster itself, and the complexity of using it. The former is where the pain is. If you can remove that pain by using a reliab
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by mjfisher 7y ago
Digital Ocean is still significantly cheaper (unsurprisingly). They don't charge for the control plane, so you just pay the normal prices for the droplets and resources you use. It's well integrated, allowing K8 to provision load
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I believe the Lambda Architecture is a simplified refinement of a previous idea, the Kappa Architecture. It's just one letter further along. I have no idea why a Kappa Architecture was named as such.
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I wish as an industry we practiced quantitative risk management more. I run a small training workshop about producing better estimates, and the single idea that I want people to take away is that a single-valued estimate is a really terribl
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That's not the same thing at all. General relativity makes incredibly precise predictions about very specific phenomena. There have been hundreds of separate natural observational experiments (transit of mercury to gravitational lensin
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> Sadly, I didn't get a chance to provide feedback to the criticisms That's a shame. It sounds like the criteria were fairly well defined, but it would be nice if your assignment was used as a starting point for good in person
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by mjfisher 7y ago
That's a nice, clean, simple approach - I learned about `createContextualFragment()`, so thanks! I wanted to ask, did the company you were interviewing for tell you what they wanted to get out of the assignment on their end - specifica
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by mjfisher 7y ago
Two things that made me migrate (mostly) to DO from Linode: 1. For a long time, Linode did not have a terrform provider 2. DO's managed Kubernetes offering Just Works, and is very competitively priced FWIW, I still run a small Linode b
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I don't know if this will be of any use to you. If you're pitching to VCs, you're already operating way above my level. I also don't know if it's different over here. I live and work in the UK and I'm white. I
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I think there's two kinds of situation this occurs in. There's the "not yet learnt" kind where people don't know what they can deliver, over-promise, and end up in an awkward situation. There's also a trickier,
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by mjfisher 7y ago
That looks absolutely perfect for me. I've found some Stoic attitudes and practices a great help over the past year or so, but suspect there's some really valuable knowledge from the other schools I've yet to learn about. I&#
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by mjfisher 7y ago
A nicely entertaining read. Does anyone else find the author's characterisation of Stoicism a little reductive? My reading of the Stoics has been limited so far, but at least as far as Marcus Aurelius writes one of the primary Stoic pa
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by mjfisher 7y ago
Storing secrets in env vars is very common in practice, although it presents a slightly bigger attack surface than using something like Hashicorp's Vault to just pull the secrets into memory. You can sometimes find debug pages etc for
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I'm curious about the economics of this - is it big enough to not be worth redeveloping when you consider over the income over say, 3-5 years?
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by mjfisher 7y ago
What a great example of the power of PCA! I absolutely love that you can give it nothing but a set of raw dimensional data, and it will give you back a set of axes that are (often) human interpretable. I remember the first time I did that f
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by mjfisher 7y ago
Can anyone closer to the .NET community than I am comment on the wider adoption of .NET core on standard line of business applications? The few places I know that work with .NET are a long way from migrating yet. Are there any similarities
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by mjfisher 7y ago
Speaking as someone who uses Rails regularly, I agree - it is considerably slower than many other language choices. It probably isn't a good call for a performance critical bottlenecked service that can't scale horizontally. For
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I see this position fairly frequently. While I respect the place it comes from, I've never quite understood the unequivocal nature of it. Is it all take home tests you refuse? Does your position change at all depending on the length of
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by mjfisher 7y ago
Also, because take home tests can be a controversial subject: I think they're a great way to evaluate some skills, but they're not the only way. There's pros and cons to every technique, for both candidates and the hiring org
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I've found well-designed take home coding tests to be a great way of assessing potential hires during a recruitment process. I've also found that take home tests can be really hard to manage for a growing team; lost emails from HR
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I'm not sure that's the case with Javascript - there's plenty of microframeworks (express, hapi) and even a couple with bigger ambitions - like Sails.js Last time I looked, none were comparable to Rails/Django/Sprin
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I think that's a great approach. I agree absolutely about not being able to fake it either; in practice I've never caught anyone putting forth someone else's code as their own, and I don't think it's a huge concern
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I get the sentiment - but at some point, a hiring company absolutely has to test your ability to make a judgement about whether to hire you. Speaking from experience on both sides of the table, I'd rather that be through writing actual
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by mjfisher 7y ago
I have a strong dislike for the 'see how they think' or 'code like you would in production' style instructions for take-homes - they're not specific enough. I don't think that necessarily applies to real-time p
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by mjfisher 7y ago
The issue there is the problem starts to become unbounded for the candidate; they can't tell what you're looking for, so they don't know how to prioritize their time. That's a problem even if you have reasonable expectat

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