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by srvaroa 3y ago
I have just outsourced the problem and paid a platform (ghost.io, mainly because it allows for custom domains on the most basic plan.)
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by srvaroa 3y ago
It still is cherry picking one out of many examples where the headcount reductions were by far not that drastic as in Twitter. The parent reply has an important point: a good % of headcount reductions tend to affect r&d and the type of
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by srvaroa 3y ago
It basically "oh well I'm going to take a 2m break, let's click that short video " and getting sucked into the vortex. A similar effect happens to me on Twitter. I sometimes click on a video / dumb meme account, etc
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by srvaroa 3y ago
I haven't needed to be so drastic, but removed the YT app from my phone. There is a fair amount of good content that I find very worth consuming from YT (mainly educational videos) and would not like to miss. But, the mobile app makes
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by srvaroa 3y ago
I'm working on an app to help solve this. It's still waiting for Spotify's approval but I can whitelist some users while in development mode and some beta testing / user feedback would be appreciated. The profile shows m
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by srvaroa 3y ago
I don’t find they are valued like that. IME most devs who use them perceive them as annoying boilerplate. Proof being how Lombok or Records are generally well received among the younger gen. The problem on this topic is that they cargo cult
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by srvaroa 3y ago
> You don't need to assume a bad actor in the team to encounter the situation of having 100% code coverage with meaningless tests. Indeed. The thing is, I was replying to a comment that referred _explicitly_ to a bad actor. The situ
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by srvaroa 3y ago
I don’t fully agree with all points but there are many words of caution to be spoken about the expectation that by moving to a manager role you get more agency on the things that frustrate you as a sw eng. “The managers path” is a good reso
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by srvaroa 3y ago
Maybe professional bias but I prefer to follow a cattle vs pets approach here and treat them as disposable, meaning: let the sd card break and optimize for quick replacement.
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by srvaroa 3y ago
Good thing. It shows that a % of your tests were actually not targeted at the most important areas of the code base
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by srvaroa 3y ago
I hear this point as a counter argument to “never decrease coverage helps maintain quality”. It is technically correct. But, it is only meaningful if you assume a bad actor in the team who knowingly games the system, and a team who tolerate
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How about we forget the concept of test types?(varoa.net)
1 points by srvaroa 3y ago|0 comments
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by srvaroa 3y ago
Thanks for posting. I keep a log of these for every time I have one of those “mocks and synthetic loads are useless to test this piece of software, we absolutely need to clone production” conversations.
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by srvaroa 3y ago
There are usages outside of the browser too. We are using wasm as a runtime for applications and modules deployed in small IoT device. Wasm helps overcome the typical limitations of those devices giving platform independence, sandboxed env
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How organisations cripple engineering teams with good intentions(varoa.net)
2 points by srvaroa 3y ago|1 comments
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by srvaroa 3y ago
This. Most of the articles about working around code reviews give the same vibes as naive crypto enthusiasts towards financial regulation.
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by srvaroa 3y ago
I can agree that interests of companies and individuals are not necessarily aligned and it's good advice to take this into consideration. I'm not sure it's necessary to add actual bad intentions from the part of all tech comp
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by srvaroa 3y ago
“The investigation” by Stanisław Lem “Neuromancer” by William Gibson “A fire on the moon” by Norman Mailer
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by srvaroa 3y ago
This comment shows IMO that the real issue here is not really microservices or not microservices, but what the article calls "The apostles of the Church of Complexity". Neither microservices or monolith are a golden hammer, silver
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by srvaroa 3y ago
The implicit assumption behind this statement is that using production for testing increases the risk of production outages. Even if we consider it correct, I think it is a mistake to believe that the only way to handle that risk is to open
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by srvaroa 6y ago
A good way for getting a deeper insight of JVM memory usage beyond heap is -XX:NativeMemoryTracking=detail
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by srvaroa 7y ago
I send links to getpocket.com from $device. I like to save the best ones, so I made a dumb tool to download them as rendered text files (glorified w3m -dump) which I organize in 3 folders that my tool syncs back upstream to GetPocket: favo
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by srvaroa 7y ago
They are on their own. The team doing managed Kafka does offer some tools for data / schema migrations, but there is nothing for other storages. Generally they actually don't raise this as a pain point, teams tend to be quite sel
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by srvaroa 7y ago
AWS takes care for most of them. All teams generally use cfn / terraform / to define that kind of infra (e.g. I need a DB with these properties) and they get applied as part of the standard deployment pipelines. We constributed
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Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers(srvaroa.github.io)
203 points by srvaroa 7y ago|23 comments
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by srvaroa 7y ago
Hi, author here. That was exactly the intent of the title, reflecting the reaction we (almost always) get from developers: "k8s is at fault", the result of most investigations is "not really". I try to make that eviden
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HotSpot JVM: why does the default hashCode() conflict with biased locking?(srvaroa.github.io)
3 points by srvaroa 10y ago|0 comments