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by vrosas 3y ago
Humans have an inherent need to label, categorized and segregate things into discrete buckets that I find fascinating.
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by vrosas 3y ago
That and a uuid is going to be unique across all tables and objects, whereas a slug will only be unique within a certain subset e.g. users within an organization. I’ve seen a production issue IRL where someone (definitely not me) wrote a qu
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by vrosas 3y ago
Bad schema decisions are made regardless of whether you’re one database or 50. At least with many databases the problems are localized.
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by vrosas 3y ago
There's also Vertex AI, which is their AI platform within GCP and encompasses all of those and more...
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by vrosas 3y ago
At least it’s not named kraken
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by vrosas 3y ago
It’s been said that there’s no new ideas in rocketry. Even the most cutting edge stuff was theorized and probably even tested in some rudimentary way by some crazy aerospace engineers in the 50s. They just watched it explode and gave up bec
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by vrosas 3y ago
I was just today reminiscing about how smart and capable everyone seemed at the startup I interned at in 2013, and comparing them to the quality of engineers I’ve worked with in the startup scene more recently. The difference is stark. I ca
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by vrosas 3y ago
Funny to think back on all those HN/Reddit stock threads parroting “anyone can put a video on a CDN Netflix is doomed lmao” as if being responsible for a double digit percentage of the entire internet’s bandwidth was some intern projec
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by vrosas 3y ago
Your TV is actually actively “shazaming” everything you watch. That’s one way ads are attributed to you. TV manufacturers sell that data, that’s one of the reasons TVs are so cheap now - the ad view data is the real money.
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by vrosas 3y ago
> Are people really deploying services in production without understanding... Oh you sweet summer child. But in reality I've seen the pattern over and over, especially in GCP. 1. Create service account 2. Give it Owner permission fo
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by vrosas 3y ago
Here's the full page in its original form --> https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/10/09/102...
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by vrosas 3y ago
Well at least he’s honest. Pretty much every talk I’ve given was a shotgun of random abstracts that I came up with content for later. The downside of conference talks being a required component of promotion packets.
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by vrosas 3y ago
Uber is famous for NIH syndrome. You can tell by their open source projects they've basically built every part of their infra from scratch. So it's not just the application code but everything else that helps run it.
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by vrosas 3y ago
At larger orgs I've found engineering managers to basically just be localized HR representatives - there to handle disputes and escalate as needed. They also sometimes act as mediocre project/product managers as needed. Anyone who
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by vrosas 3y ago
It's more like, people complain that something you _are_ going to buy costs more than they want. Apple has had this exact pricing model for decades now. People are always complaining the base configuration (for macs, iphones, etc) are
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by vrosas 3y ago
Any reason you're hiding the make/model of the car?
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by vrosas 3y ago
> make build && ENV=prod make deploy
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by vrosas 3y ago
Sort of, but people get defensive and start to argue that they _will_ need whatever it is at some point. But my argument is that, fine, you may be right, but if it's not needed _right at this very moment_ there's no reason to rush
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by vrosas 3y ago
I like to say, “solve problems you have, not problems you think you have.”
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by vrosas 3y ago
I suggested it's possible to write, commit and own code without others' approval to increase productivity and people get _extremely_ defensive about it. It's so odd. It happened in real life and it's happening in this th
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by vrosas 3y ago
Not a man. I’m not convinced bad code would get merged more often if we didn’t require approvals. I am convinced we’d deliver code faster though, and that’s what I’m trying to optimize for. Your company and engineering problems are not the
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by vrosas 3y ago
Heh, both can be true. Process doesn't make good engineers any better. Bad code gets approved and merged every day. I'd rather have a team I could trust to merge and steward their code to production on their own instead of bureauc
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by vrosas 3y ago
I'm challenging my team to actually think about that process, why it's in place, how it's helping (or actively hurting!) us. Comparing ourselves to companies that have regulatory requirements (spoiler: we don't and likel
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by vrosas 3y ago
The other problem is that these self-imposed roadblocks are so engrained in the modern SDLC that developers literally cannot imagine a world where they do not exist. I got _reamed_ by some "senior" engineers for merging a small PR
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by vrosas 3y ago
I’m actually shocked the ratio is only 3:1. That’s not “few” people that’s hundreds of thousands fighting for a handful of bridges and tunnels each and every morning and every evening in between.
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by vrosas 3y ago
I can understand the confusion. A brief history lesson. Firebase: a paas that google bought that included a real-time nosql db (also casually called firebase) Datastore: googles OG serverless nosql db that was tightly baked into appengine a
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by vrosas 3y ago
On the flip side I’m trying to convince my CTO to fire half our engineering team - a group of jokers he hired during the run-up who are now wildly overpaid and massively under-delivering. With all the tech talent out there I’m convinced we’
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by vrosas 3y ago
I maintain that I’m equally productive at home as I was in the office. The only difference is the amount of time I spend _pretending_ to to be productive.
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by vrosas 3y ago
It’s amazing how many companies are literally just ffmpeg-as-a-service. It wasn’t a ton of money but I saved my last company a few hundred bucks a month they were paying a service to convert .gif files to .mp4
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by vrosas 3y ago
To add to that, I’ve read enough of my own companies blog posts to know that Y was an incorrect solution to Z, was half-implemented at best, barely improved METRIC, and has already made a lot of peoples’ lives harder for simply existing. So

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