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by pageald 7y ago
For our use case, we found the best approach was to clone all of the data to a temporary table with indices and constraints disabled, perform the updates, re-enable indices and constraints, and then replace the production table with the tem
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by pageald 8y ago
My first thought after reading the headline was that they had been placed under some kind of litigation hold and had to immediately back up all of their data on US customers to comply. Just baseless speculation; I dont work for Facebook or
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by pageald 8y ago
Environment variables are the best way to handle feature flags. The 12 factor app provides some guidance for doing it the right way. [0] Feature flags do introduce complexity, but that can be partially mitigated by having good defaults and
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by pageald 8y ago
How does one find these high paying full time remote jobs? Most that I see with salaries listed on weworkremotely, Stack Overflow Jobs and the like top out around $150k. There are lots of non-remote jobs that pay higher than my current sala
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by pageald 8y ago
>(though maybe if marijuana becomes legal nationwide that will no longer be part of the test) The test isn't going anywhere until there's a reliable field sobriety for weed. Companies don't want employees operating heavy e
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by pageald 8y ago
It's code that provisions or configures VMs, containers, cloud resources like RDS, etc. Usually this is accomplished using tools like Terraform, Ansible playbooks, SaltStack, Kubernetes, and the many other similar tools.
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by pageald 8y ago
Are there a lot of American expat software engineers in the UK? For most people, it would be a steep pay cut to move from the US to anywhere in the EU.
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by pageald 8y ago
There is lots of truth to this, but it's not that hard to save up for 6 to 24 months of expenses on an engineer's salary, assuming you are living within your means. Dependents complicate the situation, but don't make it impos
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by pageald 8y ago
My bank has a $100 minimum for transaction alerts. Sigh.
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by pageald 8y ago
In my experience using AWS, you can spin up new autoscaled instances pretty quickly. I don't even have a custom AMI, I use a generic image and run startup scripts to kick off my server software. Takes < 3 minutes to spin up a new on
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by pageald 8y ago
Continuous Integration
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by pageald 8y ago
Terrafirm isn't provider neutral. It is just a declarative wrapper for cloud provider APIs. Code using one provider is not easily translated to another. I do think it's an excellent configuration management and provisioning tool,
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by pageald 8y ago
Has there ever been a high profile early access game that crossed the finish line? It seems like studios usually take the money and run, like Bohemia Interactive with DayZ. Five years and tens/hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue
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by pageald 8y ago
Simulating millions of users should be well within the capabilities of a company as large as Amazon. Off the shelf load testing tools like Locust can create thousands of fake users with one worker.
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by pageald 8y ago
What features of Kubernetes are only available for a price? Since Kubernetes is fully open source and self hosted/available from any cloud provider now, how is it crippled?
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by pageald 8y ago
Thoughts on Nomad after admittedly minimal dabbling: I pushed for using Nomad at my job without success. Managerial perceptions of Kubernetes as "the consensus" is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody wants to pick a technology with
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by pageald 8y ago
How does this work? Do you work 40 hours compressed into 3/4 days, or do you take a pay cut? Do you find that you are able to be productive for entirety of the 10 or 14 hour days required by a compressed workweek?
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by pageald 9y ago
This is a great idea. They need to hook this thing up to Glassdoor.
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by pageald 9y ago
>I’ll be on sabbatical from my job. . . and working on building better profiling tools for Ruby (and maybe Python??). I can't comment on Ruby's profiling stack, but I think that cProfile is a great tool for finding bottlenecks
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by pageald 9y ago
This is ridiculous. It's one thing to claim that 100k is "not enough" if you live in a high cost of living (which is still dubious, considering the median income in NYC is half of that.) If that's not enough for you in K