rorymalcolm

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by rorymalcolm 1mo ago
Disclaimer: I work at the incident company This is one of those projects where the end goal is to build the scariest button possible. You cannot complete the project until you’ve pressed that button. You do all the work to build the button,
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by rorymalcolm 2mo ago
Disclaimer: I worked with Johanna on this I had a lot of fun “long tail whackamoling” our way through edge queries that our model of “this is eligible for a read replica” wasn’t accurately catching. Honestly just one of those “keep reading
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by rorymalcolm 2y ago
Building higher-touch AI products that are applicable across the entire customer base of an existing enterprise SaaS provider on release does feel impossible. It's very obvious when you look at the AI companies that have 'exit-vel
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The AI Innovator's Dilemma(blog.lawrencejones.dev)
5 points by rorymalcolm 2y ago|2 comments
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by rorymalcolm 2y ago
(Full disclosure, I work at incident.io!) We recently released our On-call product, and as part of that, had to think a lot about redundancy and 'failing safety'. Here's how we achieve it - and how we're thinking about i
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Who watches the watchers? How we page ourselves if incident.io goes down(incident.io)
5 points by rorymalcolm 2y ago|2 comments
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by rorymalcolm 2y ago
Yes - it is!
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by rorymalcolm 2y ago
(Full disclosure, I work at incident.io!) We recently released our On-call product, and as part of that, had to build a mobile app. We'd noticed there's been some debate recently regarding React Native, and if you can build '
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Building a multi-platform on-call mobile app with React Native in 2024(incident.io)
5 points by rorymalcolm 2y ago|4 comments
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by rorymalcolm 2y ago
Found this comment (from Fivetran's CEO, so, with that in mind) regarding this article enlightening regarding the costs they were facing here https://twitter.com/frasergeorgew/status/1808326803796512865
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by rorymalcolm 3y ago
Were Prequel using RaabitMQ to stay cloud platform agnostic when spinning up new environments? Always wondered how companies that offer managed services on the customers cloud like this manage infrastructure in this regard. Do you maintain
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
Having the type system this complicated is mostly for library builders, makes the developer experience of tools like tRPC, Zod and Prisma possible. An engineer writing business logic in TypeScript will probably never have to learn how to wr
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
I think it makes sense in the context of the poential of plain old SQL (and additions such as dbt) winning out vs Python or other general purpose programming solutions as the analytics workbench (although this is controversial, there's
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
Totally agree - in fact from the issues pages it seemed like there had been a conscious decision from Airbyte not to support a Terraform provider and instead build out Octavia, which as you say leaves a lot to be desired. Deploying Airbyte
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
Switched to Fivetran after experiences with Airbyte, operating Airbyte was extremely tedious, even primetime connectors had bugs that I personally had to fix, we keep Airbyte around for the "long tail" of SaaS tools that Fivetran
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
Which Lambda competitors (which aren't v8 isolate based) don't have cold starts?
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
They acknowledge it is based off Noria[1] in the longer blogpost [1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/noria:osdi18.pdf
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
It is popular in newgen tooling but I feel its more a function of the slowness of `tsc` than anything else. I get why `tsc` is slow, and have a lot of respect for the team and the constraints they work under but I can't help but feelin
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
https://technical.ly/startups/dbt-labs-series-c/ They changed their name semi-recently to dbt Labs
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
I feel the biggest PaaS offerrings in Europe are internal deployments within the enterprise!
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
Those algorithms and improvements in large data processing got bundled away into a platform/infra layer a developer or user interfaces with unaware of what's going on in the background to produce the results they want.
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
Hosting any significantly scaled CI/CD system is very difficult work and since every team in your organisation usually touches it you often have a large blast radius. I've seen downtimes take a long time to recover from even when
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
You can trivially resolve this with Organisations now, multi-account is incredibly common even within environments, it's a smart isolation boundary.
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by rorymalcolm 4y ago
If you drop a 'title' column from a users table, for example, you can revert and have the title column reappear with the dropped data, new users added during this time (while the column was dropped) will not have a title.
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by rorymalcolm 5y ago
They aren't shutting down? Bandcamp's model is so directly connected to DRM free lossless downloads it'd be an incredibly bold decision to remove it.
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by rorymalcolm 5y ago
I think with React the core functionality / idea is much more simple than you'd imagine. The complexity evolves out of the add-ons and library situation, some do simplify the situation though, I find Next.js React apps incredibly
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by rorymalcolm 5y ago
This is retool, retool sometimes gets marketed as 'nocode' but really benefits from past developer experience, I think you could build exactly what you want using it.
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by rorymalcolm 5y ago
Totally agree, an unbelievably good service that does what it says on the tin in the best and most intuitive way.
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by rorymalcolm 5y ago
This is part of a wider suite of tools developed and run by the Government Digital Service including Notify (lets you send texts, letters and emails, https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/ ) and Pay (lets you take inbound
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by rorymalcolm 5y ago
NestJS makes pretty heavy use of decorators and I really dislike it because of it, it reminds me of reading Spring Java code.

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