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by solatic 2y ago
Multiple A records is not for load balancing, a key component of which is full control over registering new targets and deregistering old targets in order to shift traffic. Because DNS responses are cached, you can't reliably use DNS t
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by solatic 2y ago
Incredibly unsafe. If Class E is reserved "for future use", maybe that could include public use. The first rule of hardening production reliability is, make sure it doesn't just work, but that it will continue to work. Tomo
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by solatic 2y ago
I've come to the conclusion that Professionally Pretty Products should use the JS ecosystem and Internal Web Dashboards should use Go. When your company is employing dedicated professionals for Product and UX, trying to sync their work
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by solatic 2y ago
No, the closest is staging documentation changes until the features reach 100% rollout, then manually pressing a button to try to launch the docs at the same time. But when users don't find docs for new features (that are rolled out on
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by solatic 2y ago
Doing docs-as-code by putting documentation in the codebase is somewhat of an oversimplification. Usually, you want to use feature flags to decouple changes in Product from Engineering-driven deployments, so that new feature work can be rol
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by solatic 2y ago
> nor the executives who built that system This is exactly why being an executive of a large organization is so incredibly difficult to pull off well. Sure, you can let your assistant fill your calendar with a bunch of meetings you don&#
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by solatic 2y ago
Too focused on the bottom level. If a given business process results in employee A doing their job correctly according to the process, passing work to employee B doing their job correctly according to the process, passing work to employee C
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by solatic 2y ago
Svelte noob here: can someone more experienced explain why runes are getting people excited? My untrained eye starting reading the Svelte runes documentation and it just made me go "well I guess Svelte is getting React Hooks?"
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by solatic 2y ago
This pattern has a smell. If you're shipping continuously then your on-call engineer is going to be fixing the issues the other engineers are shipping, instead of those engineers following up on their deployments and fixing issues caus
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by solatic 2y ago
I'm not sure you've fully accounted for the full carbon reduction here, which is not just the replacement of cars from the road but also the transition to a car-free lifestyle. It gets people out of their cars because it's ch
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by solatic 2y ago
I wasn't really being serious...
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by solatic 2y ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to claim that small businesses don't need any safeguards. For example, small businesses also need backups, they need TLS certificates, lots of industry-standard stuff. What they don't necessarily ne
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by solatic 2y ago
But the world has enough room for both McDonald's and the farm-to-table restaurant. They serve different markets and fulfill different needs. There is room for both Big Agriculture monocultures that have industrialized agriculture and
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by solatic 2y ago
Would be much more usable if it could be billed to AWS. Then I'd wire it up so my employer would be paying for a pizza with every new deployment...
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by solatic 2y ago
I find the WordPress / static duality in this thread amusing. Various startups built solutions that snapshotted WordPress installs and put the snapshots on static hosting. Best of both worlds. The one I know best got acquired: https:&
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by solatic 2y ago
COBOL is endangered, even for banks and airlines. Just look at the executives who see decide to open new digital banks - they're not building on top of COBOL or mainframes. The old banks will be outmaneuvered by the new ones, and event
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by solatic 2y ago
> The bureaucratic red tape is one of the artificial restrictions. My point being that bureaucracy does not inherently need to be so bad as to be perceived from the outside as slow and inefficient. Chinese rail and construction were buil
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by solatic 2y ago
> chiefly by removing the artificial supply restrictions Building housing without restrictions gives you slums. Nice housing has lots of surrounding support - electric, gas, water, sewage, Internet lines; schools, parks, swimming pools,
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by solatic 2y ago
> a big part of SCIM is just the deprovisioning aspect? The "just" makes it sound like this is a minor point. This is a huge point. Enterprises are forced by their customers and regulators to show that terminated employees lo
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by solatic 2y ago
No reference to SCIM? OIDC is far preferable to SAML, but the last time I touched this, half the reason why customers preferred SAML was because their IdP supported SCIM but only for SAML applications.
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by solatic 2y ago
DOA at my current employer because of a lack of support for other clouds (GCP and Azure). I'm sure improved API support is in the pipeline though, very psyched to see SI grow!
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by solatic 2y ago
And more to the point, just because you write for portability doesn't guarantee that it will work. If you're not able to test on multiple architectures, then you're not really able to assert that your code is actually p
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by solatic 2y ago
Citation needed? What do you think happened, they refabricated the chips on a smaller process to make room for explosives? How do you make extra room on the component level?
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by solatic 2y ago
Is it even ethical anymore to build "old" devices with large amounts of space sitting behind bulky plastic exteriors? It lets cheaters put chips into calculators and Israeli spies put explosives into pagers. Should large manufactu
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by solatic 2y ago
It's really a question of your expectations. If you're a software shop, hiring an army of consultants to build out core parts of your solution who will walk away when they're finished, you're doing it wrong. Success does
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by solatic 2y ago
Related: you can get at most once delivery or at least once delivery; you cannot get exactly once delivery. If I had a dollar for every junior who thought that a lack of exactly once delivery guarantees was a bug...
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by solatic 2y ago
You realize adding the library is like maybe 10% of the work? * Talk to IT and get your library added to SSO. Make sure both staging and prod. * Ensure user deprovisioning works when IT initiates. Prove to IT that the underlying cache
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by solatic 2y ago
Worrying about whether your web or app servers need or should use cloud architecture belies the much, much bigger consideration of how and where to store your data . Specifically, the economics of getting that data out of where you decid
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by solatic 2y ago
One interesting idea, in the Platform Engineering space (inside companies), is using TUIs to take advantage of credentials that may already be available on the developer's laptop. If you serve an internal app as a webapp, then you eith
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by solatic 2y ago
I think the reason the hole persists is due to the lack of production-ready client libraries for these configuration languages (e.g. Nickel) in Turing-complete languages and popular tools (e.g. Go, Kubectl, IDEs like VSCode and Jetbrains).

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