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I'm totally with you on the core vs. context question, but you're missing the nuance here. Postgres's operations is part of the core of the business. It's not a payroll management service where you should comparison sh
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> But maybe the local network interface is down, maybe there's a local firewall rule blocking it,... That's exactly why you log it as a warning. People get warned all the time about the dangers of smoking. It's important t
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The argument I'm hearing you make is that Hetzner needs to license a white-labelled version to distributors. If the servers are really commoditized then why aren't the data scientists in this "AWS is too expensive for data sc
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> If [a vacant storefront tax] “worked,” the mechanism would be to force a lot of commercial property to default, which could put a lot of new space on the market at lower prices, which should lower the commercial rent. But it would also
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> GitHub has still been managing the orchestration and monitoring of runs that you run on your own (or other cloud) hardware. They have just decided that they are no longer going to do this for free. This argument is disingenuous. Compan
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But that's the point, innit? How many SMEs need multiple production databases of that size? Nobody's really suggesting that Fortune 500 size enterprises should get by without DBAs. There's a big difference between an enterpri
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> $4529/month... can indeed just hire someone full-time That's $54,348/year, not including the cost of benefits, not including stock compensation. Let's say you reserve 20% for benefits and that comes out to $43,478.4
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I definitely think there are use-cases out there which are fine with daily backups. Not every use-case requires high availability or high durability. Even to take a case in point where durability is irrelevant - people building caches in Po
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Do such small caps on CPU/RAM mean that multiple customers are sharing the same server? Is there concern for noisy neighbors here, either IOPS or in case another customer's workload grows to take the full available storage on the
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You can still use a base image; you download it from the registry, extract the tar, then add your build artifacts before re-generating a manifest and re-tarring. If you specify a base image digest, you can also use a hash-addressed cache an
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I'm exaggerating somewhat. But I'm familiar with Docker's multi-stage builds and how to attempt to optimize cache layers. The first problem that you run into, with ephemeral runners, is where the Docker cache is supposed to b
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It can indeed be uniform across ecosystems, but it's slow . There's a very serious difference between being on a team where CI takes ~1 minute to run, vs. being on a team where CI takes a half hour or even, gasp, longer. A large
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Agree, and I would go another step to suggest dropping Docker altogether for building the final container image. It's quite sad that Docker requires root to run, and all the other rootless solutions seem to require overcomplicated setu
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The performance issues in large workspaces are due to needing to refresh status on all the resources in the large workspace before coming up with a plan. Actual apply time is either negligible or the inherently long amount of time it's
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> reasonably large Anyway you shouldn't have too many resources in a single Terraform workspace, for performance reasons. The real issues with Terraform come when you start to want to orchestrate different workspaces triggering each
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$30/committer/month, while only running scans biweekly, not even including "Enterprise" pricing, is really, really steep and will be a big barrier to adoption in larger enterprises with many engineers. You're basica
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> But then your various managers have the ammunition to decide what to do next - allocate more resources to the project, descope the project, push back the release date, etc. In your view, is this a good thing or a bad thing for develope
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> someone needs to be getting less for doing more, so that someone else doing less can have more This is true of all societies, not just socialist ones. In capitalism, it's called philanthropy and charity. The underlying social cont
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Having needs is not the same as slavery. Wage slavery is described as such because of the power imbalance between employer and worker, who has limited agency to find another employer, with whom he would also have a relationship with a power
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Brendan Gregg deserves respect. Intel? Their reputation had been in the gutter for a few years now. The classic way to offend a nerd is to have a leading market position, tons of cash and resources, then squander it on politics and bullsh
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> I had one developer openly tell me, "I don't want to learn anything new." To play Devil's Advocate here, there's a big, big difference between JavaScript-ecosystem-style framework/library/fad-of-the-
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This was the takeaway I had taking to a colleague about his time at Intel - they're a genuinely global company with engineering teams in practically all time zones who are still expected to collaborate with each other. No matter what t
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> it used to cost a bit to print text that looked nice More than a bit. Before print-on-demand technology was developed that made it feasible to conduct small (<1000) print runs, publishing required engaging the services of not just t
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Spreadsheets are to Finance folk what WordPress is to Marketing folk and what tools like v0 and other LLM-powered web app builders are to Product folk. The promise of having some fancy schmancy technological tool let you do your job by you
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Using meetings to sync on status is an anti-pattern. Questions can be asked in tickets and shared documents. True feelings are rarely shared in large forums anyway and are only reliably shared in private 1:1 sessions.
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It's one thing for J.K. Rowling to write Harry Potter outlines on cocktail napkins. A pen and a cocktail napkin can be quite the foundation for expression, indeed. But the same flexibility lets other people doodle, and still others blo
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You're looking for a copy of Eloquent Ruby: http://eloquentruby.com/
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Author's conclusion that legibility is prioritized over quality implies that static analysis tooling, auto-formatters, and similar linting tools would be practical requirements in all BigCo projects. Auto-formatters improve legibility
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> if you have a billion dollars already Meta has $44.4 billion in cash-on-hand as of September 2025. I'm correcting you because people can't really fathom just how wealthy these companies are. They could buy startups for billi
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Leadership is part of the group of people who built the product, therefore different leadership would have also built a different product. With that said, it's also not correct to claim that line folk have no influence at all. I don&#x

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