jordanbeiber

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by jordanbeiber 1mo ago
Well, if you work in an enterprise setting, and if this setting is just right, you can get paid well to build a lot of interesting things, and have all the choices in how to build. Certainly not every enterprise setting is like this, but th
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by jordanbeiber 1mo ago
I have kind of the same personal experience - a couple of days answering questions about the scalability and resilience of a fictional web app and enterprise integrations. I’m very much a generalist and kept to standards and terms not speci
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by jordanbeiber 6mo ago
Exactly this. Having spent almost three decades in enterprise context I see a lot of reinvention of something like a poor mans, unstructured, enterprise architecture - because AI agents. I keep repeating ”what is good for humans in an organ
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by jordanbeiber 7mo ago
There’s a place for everything. Most coding tasks take place outside of pure tech companies, if I’d venture a guess. And let’s be honest, enterprises in general do not value that quality - and they face very little in terms of technical cha
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by jordanbeiber 8mo ago
This is most likely due to the fact that it is really bad at resetting blinker when the steering wheel is straight’ish again. Extremely annoying as any other car is much more sensitive (and sensible). In a tesla an on-ramp to straight highw
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by jordanbeiber 8mo ago
Even if we still make a mess I think centralization of the mess is better than distributing it - what I mean is that polluting cities where millions sleep, eat, drink and breathe will probably be worse, net effect, than containing energy po
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by jordanbeiber 8mo ago
Using AI doesn’t really change the fact that keeping ones and zeroes in check is like trying to keep quicksand in your hands and shape it. Shaping of a codebase is the name of the game - this has always been, and still, is difficult. Build
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by jordanbeiber 9mo ago
The problem is most likely not writing the actual code, but rather understanding an old, fairly large codebase and how it’s stitched together. SO is (was?) great when you where thinking about how nice a recursive reduce function could repla
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by jordanbeiber 1y ago
The argument is perhaps ”enshittification”, and that becoming reliant on a specific provider or even set of providers for ”important thing” will become problematic over time.
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by jordanbeiber 1y ago
As go feels like a straight-jacket compared to many other popular languages, it’s probably very suitable for an LLM in general. Thinking about it - was this not the idea of go from the start? Nothing fancy to keep non-rocket scientist away
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by jordanbeiber 1y ago
”Same here” meaning moving to Hetzner, but from Azure - could’ve made it less ambiguous! Might throw together a post on it eventually: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43216847
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by jordanbeiber 1y ago
Same here, but Azure. About 90% saved, with a very similar stack. It is a great big cloud play to make enterprises reliant on the competency in their weird service abstractions, which is slowly draining the quite simple ops story an enterpr
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by jordanbeiber 1y ago
Cursor have a nice ”docs” feature for this, that have saved me from battles with constant version reversing actions from our dear LLM overlords.
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by jordanbeiber 1y ago
We’ve gone full-on full-code. Although we’re using temporal to schedule the workflows, we have a full-code typescript CI/CD setup. We’ve been through them all starting with Jenkins ending with drone, until we realized that full-code ma
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by jordanbeiber 2y ago
Of all the paas providers Azure have the worst abstractions and services. In general I think it’s sad that most buy in to consuming these ”weird” services and that there’s jobs to be had as cloud architects and specialists. It feeds bad des
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by jordanbeiber 2y ago
Writing the code is NOT the problem with these enterprise project failures. Usually decades of problem-solving have led to an absolute mess of blurry ownership and accountability. This in turn leads to corner cutting and a road completely c
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by jordanbeiber 2y ago
CRUD applications are not what most enterprises build though - they need interconnected flows of data & state-machines often supporting rather complex workflows and integration patterns. Not realizing this is a mistake many enterprise I
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
Just take the foot off the accelerator gradually. The kia I drive still roll at a couple of km/h when accelerator is fully released and will not hit 0 unless you use a paddle by the steering wheel (or use the breaks).
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
But you rarely have to brake an EV though. I’ve had two EV’s over the last 6 years, and I have to remember to occasionally hit the brakes to keep them from rusting. One pedal driving is just money - saves power and is just much smoother ove
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
In my experience people usually spend to much time trying to figure out what is most important instead of just doing an important thing.
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
But you wrote the docs and documented it’s place in the enterprise knowledge graph, because you’re a professional, right? As an eng manager at an enterprise (not SV style tech) I differentiate between coders and developers. Developers help
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
As an engineering manager I see problems with authority and process as something usually positive. This usually leads to more things getting done “right” than “wrong”. IME. Having the same issues/traits I’m not sure how that gets forme
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
Question is - what are you using airflow for? My experience with airflow have been in data ETL, and if so you are not the target for something like windmill. The target would most likely be automating HR, Finance and IT workflows and tearin
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
I’ve worked for years implementing tools like this in enterprises. My most fond memory was introducing a workflow platform to an enterprise with a fully outsourced IT-ops department - it was ruining everyone else in terms of cost, speed and
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
They have “not only one way or the other” - they have “all the ways” and this is exactly the problem you want a solution like this to fill. We’re talking backoffice/cost-center workflows in IT, finance and HR - absolutely not business
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
In a way it is (and also a humanity problem). It would be great if a bunch of car parkings could be converted to secure bike storage spots.
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
> And I've had several bike stolen over the years (include being mugged with my bike) So, let me get this straight - it’s quite likely a bike gets stolen and this experience, as shared with me, has led you to take precautions. My p
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
I can emphasize “feels”, but if you’ve ever parked a moderately expensive bike in a dense city center for a few hours you know the feeling. Especially if you’ve had a few stolen. If not the bike, the saddle. If not the saddle a wheel. If no
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
Bike will get stolen anyway which is really annoying no matter the insurance. Not saying bike isn’t preferred to car, it’s just something I always consider. I’ve got a bike AND a car, I still take the car on certain trips where the bike wou
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
That’s usually comp for simply being on-call - all agreements I’ve ever had includes increased compensation for actual on-call work a.k.a overtime compensation.

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