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by vrosas 2y ago
Having an API gateway between the internet and your service(s) is a great idea and one I’ve implemented no less than 3 times. But you should really just roll your own. It’s a few dozen lines of code with go’s standard library reverse proxy
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by vrosas 2y ago
Why not just add telemetry to see when requests are retried?
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’ve seen monumental engineering effort go into managing systems because for one reason or another people refused to use (or properly configure) autoscaling.
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by vrosas 2y ago
I see that a lot already. “I asked ChatGPT for a list of places to visit in Vermont and we planned our road trip around that!”
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by vrosas 2y ago
While the libraries and the documentation for otel are bloated messes, I maintain that any platform that isn’t using some sort of tracing system is practically negligent in their engineering duty. If you’re still out there querying logs wit
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by vrosas 2y ago
Their current CEO, Meredith Kopit Levien, is about as let-them-eat-cake as they come. She was doing a town hall years back when they were forcing everyone to “hotel” desks so they could lease out more floors of their HQ in Times Square, whe
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by vrosas 2y ago
This is something a lot of people don’t get. Refactors and even complete rewrites are a natural phase of the SDLC. They keep codebases up to date on the latest technological advances, and allow devs to maintain a complete mental model of th
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I Miss Make Deploy(vrosasv.substack.com)
2 points by vrosas 2y ago|0 comments
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by vrosas 2y ago
Next you’re gonna tell me “send me the password over slack and then delete the message” isn’t good password security.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Would you be willing to open source the backend code for this? Would love to take a look!
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’m a SWE now, but being on the build team of FIRST taught me an incredible amount and now that I’m a homeowner I’m realizing how applicable it is. I remember cutting 2x4s to build demo field parts and now I’m building walls of my home out
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by vrosas 2y ago
You could argue that the reticence to add features to your service due to the the sheer complexity, time commitment, or flat out unwillingness to not upset the apple cart is a sign of age.
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by vrosas 2y ago
In my experience it's really hard to prevent issues like this. RDBMS's kind of push you to keeping everything in the same database to take advantage of foreign keys and other features when in reality different data types will need
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by vrosas 2y ago
> You can completely swap out your database without changing any of your code Uhhhh in theory... maybe... not really. Switching PG out from under our relatively toy-ish SaaS product would be a huge undertaking.
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’m probably alone here and this goes against the HN consensus but, as great a piece of tech Postgres is, I’ve often found it to be a premature optimization to pick as the main DB for newer companies. If you don’t know what your data models
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by vrosas 2y ago
I used some WFH budget on an iPad Air and a pencil thinking it would be great for taking notes and diagramming things but it’s mostly been useless. The UX of mirroring from my laptop to draw things has been a buggy mess in every app I’ve tr
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by vrosas 2y ago
> Preparing for such behavioral questions is part of the standard interview prep process Ah the classic "it's not wrong if everyone's doing it" argument. But to me the op wasn't complaining about the content of t
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The "Fun" HR Manager(vrosasv.substack.com)
3 points by vrosas 2y ago|0 comments
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by vrosas 2y ago
life is the art of good enough.
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From Ground Zero to Production: Go's Journey at Google(i-admin.cetico.org)
10 points by vrosas 2y ago|0 comments
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by vrosas 2y ago
Violet Beauregarde aka Big Blueberry™
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by vrosas 3y ago
Serverless systems are pretty decent at scaling quickly these days. The problem is rarely lack of servers in my experience, though. You usually run out of database connections or some other bottleneck first.
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Engineering managers should not exist(vrosasv.substack.com)
44 points by vrosas 3y ago|39 comments
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by vrosas 3y ago
One manager asked for my personal email so they could add me to all the relevant google groups and whatnot so day 1 I could hit the ground running and wouldn’t need to wait for my company email to be provisioned. Needless to say, 8 years an
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by vrosas 3y ago
I’ve worked for several companies of various sizes and industries in my career and I can’t say any of them have been remarkably different than what I described. Being a manager now explained the confusing behavior and outcomes I experienced
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by vrosas 3y ago
I’d be inclined to believe you if the company in question wasn’t legendary for being an awful, toxic dumpster fire of a place to work for SDEs.
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by vrosas 3y ago
Naturally. I’m being hyperbolic but barely. It’s middle management’s entire job to squeeze as much productivity out of their reports for as little money as possible. Anything they do in their free time (1:1s, career discussions, etc) is jus
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by vrosas 3y ago
Your firm’s partners have hired BCG to streamline the home building process. Your home and every other one in the neighborhood that your coworkers have been designing will be left to rot and most of you will be let go. Some of you will be r
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by vrosas 3y ago
Yeah I’m on the client side of this now with a new home, trying to vaguely describe a vision to contractors who have great questions about problems and decisions I hadn’t even thought about. I’m sorry for myself.
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by vrosas 3y ago
If you’re not a bot say potato.

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