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Chasing an Elusive Rails SSE Bug/Hang(babylist.com)
3 points by wpeterson 1mo ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 3y ago
If they’re optimizing full table scans of 20M+ rows, they probably want an optimized column oriented DB or a data warehousing option like Snowflake.
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by wpeterson 3y ago
100% this. Only use containers for remote execution: CI, staging, production. Run native code locally. Manage dependencies and isolate project environments with NIX.
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by wpeterson 4y ago
Ugh, what a loss for this community and the Ruby community. This should be worthy of a Hacker News black banner today.
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by wpeterson 4y ago
This resonates with my experience. You can tell the author is mostly worn out not from long hours or challenging technical work, but from fighting against the overwhelming inertia that faces building/shipping anything. It’s exhausting.
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The Career Story Interview(repeatforever.substack.com)
2 points by wpeterson 6y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 7y ago
This article is dangerous in romanticizing the “not invented here” culture at many big tech companies and seems rooted more in the 90s than present day. The world of open source tooling and easily re-usable SAAS offerings means everyone has
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Googbye to Google+(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
1 points by wpeterson 7y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 9y ago
I spent two terrible years in Mountain View for a work opportunity I couldn't turn down and it was horrible. Our rent went up 20% during that time. It felt completely unsustainable, ecologically and financially to live there. We move
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by wpeterson 9y ago
Hey buddy! Reading all the design and discussion I was. Rey curious how you structured things at a brass tacks storage level.
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by wpeterson 10y ago
This may be a confusing thing, I suspect Instacart may get volume discount from stores for bringing the extra business. So this markup may be based on discounted cost instacart pays, not necessarily what YOU would pay at the store. Still th
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by wpeterson 10y ago
ezCater | Boston, MA | ONSITE | Fulltime https://www.ezcater.com/company/about-us/ ezCater is the #1 online marketplace for business catering in the United States – a $21 Billion market. We’re backed by Insight Ve
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by wpeterson 11y ago
Much better quality of [everything but weather]
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by wpeterson 11y ago
I've been living in Mountain View for several years, but we're moving back to Boston in a month. We can get a house 3x as large for 2/3 the cost and have a much better quality of life.
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by wpeterson 11y ago
RubyGems.org has their own web server and web services for publishing library versions and to allow the clients to fetch libraries and query the universal registry.
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by wpeterson 11y ago
It's totally reasonable to host your code on github and to build a package manager that loads the content of a package from it's github repo. What seems insane is to use a single github repo as the universal directory of packages
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by wpeterson 11y ago
The problem with performance optimization is that if you obsess with optimizing code well outside the critical path, it's often wasted effort drowned out by larger latencies. If this code was part of a web application, the I/O bou
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by wpeterson 11y ago
I don't understand why people think serving a blank or janky page to your users is OK. There's no reason not to serve a completely rendered page from the server side and only enhance the UI with client-side rendering and navigati
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by wpeterson 11y ago
Outsourcing functionality or work makes a lot of sense for things that aren't core to your business. If you're building a web or mobile app, backend services should be core to your business. It's a very different thing to wr
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by wpeterson 11y ago
This is a nice PR piece but building operational systems in a marine environment usually requires hardy engineering, equipment, and constant maintenance. It's not a friendly environment. I can't see the benefits here, if they wan
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by wpeterson 11y ago
I grew up in Natick, surprised to see this as a codename. Is there any connection or just a weird coincidence?
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by wpeterson 11y ago
Viktor Frankl wrote about understanding human suffering as the one constant in all our lives and the one thing that binds us all together: “To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantit
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by wpeterson 11y ago
It's great to see an attempt at mobile responsive design. This looks like a good step in the right direction. Here's hoping for even more work to make the site work on mobile.
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by wpeterson 11y ago
As a tech lead, you're a mixture of manager and lead engineer. As a manager, you should be clear to represent your team in public in terms of giving everyone credit for success and taking personal responsibility for failure yourself. A
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by wpeterson 11y ago
Averages can be useful, percentiles can be more useful. However, the biggest asset in useful monitoring is focusing in on the right events and data. Is an average latency across all of your requests useful? Probably much less than average
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by wpeterson 11y ago
Another victory for the mobile-web over a native app that didn't need to exist.
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by wpeterson 11y ago
Once upon a time, there were multiple repos and multiple tools for different jobs. Then Twitter grew to thousands of engineers, many of whom were from Google. Now everything is being converted to enterprise Java in a single, monolithic rep
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Thou Shalt Not Complicate: Three Kinds of Programmers(zverok.github.io)
3 points by wpeterson 11y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 11y ago
Interestingly enough, LukeW is now doing product/design for Google.
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by wpeterson 11y ago
When you have separate repos, the external code and integration points remain relatively static. IE: You may consume an API, but it's versioned/snapshotted at a given version. With a monolithic repo, especially without developmen

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