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by jbmsf 23d ago
Love it.
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by jbmsf 1mo ago
I've been using MotherDuck as a data warehouse for some time now. No regrets.
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by jbmsf 1mo ago
Especially, don't do this for interactions that aren't core to your business. Under the real world constraints where I work, this kind of design thinking causes non-core features to explode in complexity, cost, etc. Spend your com
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by jbmsf 2mo ago
Hallelujah.
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by jbmsf 4mo ago
Thanks for the pointer to SLOs; I've read more than a few posts about them but it never clicked, will look more closely. My point, I think, is still that the overwhelming focus of the tools I've seen focus on the kind of fine-tuni
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by jbmsf 5mo ago
I have some thoughts here. I work for a startup; we have what I think is a fairly typical setup: metrics ingested from a variety of sources, fed into industry-standard metrics/dashboard solutions, triggering escalations to humans. It&#
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by jbmsf 5mo ago
We stumbled across much the same thing building out a query layer of composable join clauses. In previous efforts at something similar, I've used CTEs, but found the ergonomics worse because the query layer had to differentiate between
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by jbmsf 5mo ago
Basically, I reached out to existing relationships. A few had needs I could fill. A few referred me to others.
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by jbmsf 5mo ago
I'm not sure about "without changing code" but I have definitely seen the believe that Figma represents something authoritative about the product instead of, say, the product being authoritative for itself. Perhaps because I
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by jbmsf 5mo ago
I laughed hard at the IV part.
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by jbmsf 6mo ago
That was my first thought as well.
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by jbmsf 6mo ago
QA should exist. QA should not be forced into an engineering or automation track because the incentives are wrong. You end up with test code becoming the goal and then it usually rots due to most QA not having the experience to create a cod
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by jbmsf 6mo ago
I get excited because I went to school with one of Vaughan Jones' children and was (and still am) into math and was blown away when I understood that he was significant.
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by jbmsf 6mo ago
Years and years ago (pre-smart phone), I built a mobile map and navigation product. Labeling streets was one of the more interesting side quests and the solution I found took a similar approach of generating a large number of candidates, pi
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by jbmsf 7mo ago
Thanks. I've been meaning to write one of these for a long time, but you went into detail in a very effective, organized way. I also reached a lot of similar decisions and challenges, even where we differ (ECS vs EKS) I completely unde
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by jbmsf 7mo ago
I can't speak to the accuracy, but I just integrated stripe's offering for our product (which involves banking). We were small enough for a while not to need it, but eventually the fraudsters find you. If you don't take these
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by jbmsf 8mo ago
I like the idea but I think it's going to be hard to put this particular genie back in the bottle. As an engineering leader, I prefer low fidelity designs early on, but practically no one else in my company wants that. Designers have l
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by jbmsf 9mo ago
I feel this way now, but with companies.
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by jbmsf 9mo ago
I started in this industry before cloud was a thing. I did most of the things RDS does the hard way (except being able to dynamically increase memory on a running instance, that's magic to me). I do not want that responsibility, especi
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by jbmsf 9mo ago
Meh. The end of the company many of us admire was a combination of the founders giving up control to the usual villains and the venture business model failing for developer tools. I don't think the specific departure date matters very
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by jbmsf 9mo ago
You're not wrong, but a) most of the badness happened after the founders checked out and b) it's hard to find examples of developer tool companies doing better.
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by jbmsf 9mo ago
We're paying for pyx. Wouldn't have if we didn't enjoy enjoy uv and ruff. It's definitely a narrow path for them to tread. Feels like the best case is something like Hashicorp, great until the founders don't want to
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by jbmsf 9mo ago
I assume they want us to pay for their orchestration and also push customers back to using their compute so everything is stickier. But nothing they've done in the last few years has demonstrated improvement in this area. As the person
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by jbmsf 10mo ago
I see: a page offering something interesting but vague. If you tell me more, I might sign up. If I have to create an account first, I'm walking away.
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by jbmsf 10mo ago
It looks a lot like a CloudFront error we randomly saw today from one of our engineers in South America. I suspect there was a small outage in AWS but can't prove it.
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by jbmsf 10mo ago
I agree. I find LLMs a bit overblown. I don't think most people want to use chat as their primary interface. But writing a few agents was incredibly informative.
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by jbmsf 1y ago
As an engineer, I like this framework but can think of approximately zero PMs who could use it to build a product.
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by jbmsf 1y ago
Bartleby was right.
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by jbmsf 1y ago
We have a recent hire who comes from a background where a) the user base was much larger and b) metrics were the best way to understand outcomes. Our company is smaller and earlier than that. I enjoy the focus on metrics, it's a good p
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by jbmsf 1y ago
This was always the case.

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