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by BackBlast 2y ago
Or they think extensively about performance. Regardless, the switch shows they pay attention and are willing to change.
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by BackBlast 2y ago
> All this complexity I learned must have been for a reason! It doesn't have to be so emotional. Htmx can be helpful to keep all your state in one place, it's simpler to reason about and make changes. Lower cognitive load for t
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by BackBlast 2y ago
> 7. ... Another business I worked for literally hired and fired four separate teams to build an on-prem OpenStack cluster, and it was the most unstable, terrible computing platform I've used, that constantly caused service outages
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by BackBlast 2y ago
> The bigger cost is what will happen to your business when you're hard-down for a week because all your SQL servers are down, and you don't have spares, and it will take a week to ship new servers and get them racked. Even if
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by BackBlast 2y ago
> The 'hard part' isn't the engineering Depends on the problem. But I don't find a lot of companies that are all marketing and a bare cupboard of an engineering department. They exist, but they are not a universal.A
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by BackBlast 2y ago
Seems par for the course that even AWS employees don't even understand their pricing. I noticed the pricing similarity and tried to deploy to .metal instances. And that's when I got hit with additional charges. If you turn on a
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> I'm not certain that's true if you look at TCO. Sigh. This old trope from ancient history in internet time. > Yes, you can probably buy a server for less than the yearly rent on the equivalent EC2 instance. Or a monthly b
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by BackBlast 3y ago
You're missing the purpose of the cache. At least for this argument it's mostly for network responses. HDD was 10ms, which was noticeable for cached network request that needs to go back out on the wire. This was also bottle nec
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by BackBlast 3y ago
If you don't have scale, you don't need most of the features. Fire up PC, load application. Setup egress port open to internet. Setup application backup on cron job. Done until scale problems arise.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
2015 called and wants it's hype back.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
I ran the numbers the other day. For just compute with my particular load, my numbers say AWS costs 73928x more for lambda over my on-prem. Like for like is 1250x more. This is presuming the savings levels for being a big spender that I&
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Why does everyone always jump to this fiction? You probably aren't paying a "cloud engineer" just to fiddle with cloud config full time with <$100k/yr spend. Why would you suddenly need a full time sysop to do the sa
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by BackBlast 3y ago
A lieutenant is not the captain. As a lieutenant, I don't get to just go do whatever. I advise, I provide options, I make calls that don't to up to the CEO level. I pick tech stacks, I pick how to do the things we decide to do.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> Your "freedom" is allowing kids to be abused since they don't have the checks of other adults being able to see them. At what cost? Innocent until proven guilty means that we don't treat people like criminals until
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> Some teachers genuinely love and care for their students I agree. And they are among the best of teachers. But the ability of such a person to meet the love needs of a wanting child in the setting of schooling is near zero.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
On the other side, who's going to love them at school? Overloaded teachers? Administrators? Other still very immature students? Lack of love is a problem. School is quite clearly not a solution to that.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
There is a pretty big difference between "abuse happens" and "this environment is fundamentally worse". Schools have pretty abysmal records as far as preventing abuse to children. Bullying is massive, be it student-stu
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Keep in mind that the number of devs that are inexperienced is very high. Growth in the industry has been explosive. So there is a large population of devs that just don't understand how one might reasonably live, and even prosper, o
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by BackBlast 3y ago
There's a lot of nuance in cloud or no cloud. You jumped right to AC and diesel. You can have a pretty sizable server capability on modern hardware before you need to touch that. I can serve what... 1M users? perhaps 10M users? before
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by BackBlast 3y ago
The cloud was principally designed 2005-2013 era where it was pretty reasonable for an average website to need to go multi system to support traffic spikes. CPU hardware kind of stagnated 2014-2018, while SSDs took off. But the last 5 year
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> But then, again - if you are designing codecs or choosing them, you probably want a monitor that makes it easy to see these things You keep bringing this up. I don't really care. Someone designing a codec may have put this appar
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by BackBlast 3y ago
There's room for different opinions. His font choice is terrible for my legibility. Maybe for others it's great. But it made the already difficult article that much harder to read. And I like this topic. I already seriously qu
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by BackBlast 3y ago
I've used Meteor. I thought it was a good system. It didn't have offline capability, at least not back when I used it. It really needed to be connected to work. But conceptually, yes, it had a very similar system.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
If I'm generalizing. B2C products frequently fit but not always. B2B products generally don't but can in some circumstances.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
One user can have multiple clients. This is frequently the case, many to most users have both a PC and a phone. Also when one allows reasonable sharing of the account with family, 5+ connected clients is common.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Java fails on multiple points. First, my list failed to include web because of the context. Web is, by far, the largest and most important platform. Even if I'm building only native installers for a project, I need to be able to buil
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by BackBlast 3y ago
So if the user owns all their own data, their "data view" is their data set. A To-Do system, a personal finance app, any kind of note-taking or personal record keeping fits this model. You create a database per user and the auth
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by BackBlast 3y ago
I've worked on various forms of "legacy code" for most of my career. As long as the economics line up and the customer is willing to pay for the required support, then it's a fine business avenue. If economics don'
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by BackBlast 3y ago
I work with lean, business speculative software mostly. Which means not cross-platform native development is simply not economical to do. I generally need to be able to hit Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS square on with one code base. A
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by BackBlast 3y ago
I'm on the fat client train with my company and I nudge my clients that way if they're open. It's just a great way to build a system.

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