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Pro: In the last ten years backend development has turned into AWS SDK-orientied programming mostly. Databricks-oriented in case of data engineering recently too. Between this and …

https://inside.java/2024/05/23/dop-v1-1-introduction/

A typical Bay Area commute (e.g. to SJ or San Mateo/Redwood City) is 40+ miles one way. A typical weekend drive (e.g. to Half Moon Bay or Sonoma) is a 100-mile roundtrip.

20 miles to SF, 25 yoe (backend, data, basic frontend), been there done that and all I have got is this automated rejection email

Very few people want to re-create their production AWS MSK cluster from scratch. And that's the only way currently. MSK can usually upgrade Kafka brokers with minor performance deg…

If you have a use-case where you currently allocate ~1K threads mostly waiting on I/O switching to virtual threads is a one-liner ("Thread.ofVirtual()" instead of "Thread.ofPlatfor…

By the time you acquire enough experience to do it in 25+ years of lunches the job market starts showing less interest in you. But that's the only promising strategy in the LLM-dom…

I learned about OOP from a Turbo Pascal v5.5 book circa 1993. Drawing triangles, squares, circles, all the good stuff. Turbo Vision library was a powerful demonstration of the powe…

Not every SWE working in the Bay Area can afford a $1.5M house just to charge his car. Not to mention that the car would be twice as expensive (e.g. top Elantra 2025 trim at $30K v…

In a galaxy far far away so called "J2EE application servers" used to be the reason JDK upgrades were not allowed. And that would probably be a real major update Java project. When…

You can ask them a single question to know the answer: do they have any cats/scalaz in their production code? Without their ilk Scala 10 years ago was the language Kotlin and Java …

Apache DataFusion Comet is a high-performance accelerator for Apache Spark, built on top of the powerful Apache DataFusion query engine: https://datafusion.apache.org/comet/user-gu…

You're unfortunately right. Every Scala codebase I have seen recently is essentially legacy. New services are not built with it anymore. Other than blaming SBT and the Haskel fans …

There's one book that discusses a few related questions from a very mainstream perspective: Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling ( https://www.manning.com/books/functional-and-r…

I'm curious how one ends up with such ahistorical sequence. I'd expect it to be more aligned with the actual PL history. Mainstream PLs have had a fairly logical progression with e…

On the other hand, most LinkedIn jobs published last week (e.g. full time/hybrid in SF) seem to be much closer to 180K-200K.

While walking around look for a set of parallel bars/horizontal bar in a park near you. Typical exercises you could do with them both take little time and really load major muscles…

Hyundai has Elantra with its 45+ MPG (with a regular ICE), distinctive exterior, advanced safety features (at least in Limited trim), and above average manufacturer warranty.

Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol Apache Kafka is an aging open source project. It's time to accept that Kafka's protocol is what matters. ( https://materializedview.io/p/…

Anyone with a Java background will mention JCiP. But there's another book going deeper - "Art of Multiprocessor Programming" ( https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming…

AWS Fargate is popular among large companies in my experience. Some of them try to migrate from it to a unified k8s "platform" (i.e. frequently not pure k8s/EKS/helm but some kind …

You kind of can peek into parquet files with a tiny command line utility: https://github.com/manojkarthick/pqrs

The prolefeed explains that deep duckspeaking is doubleplusgood. Nothing to see here, citizen.

There are two pinnacles in a traditional CS program - building a compiler and a DBMS. They are umbrella topics that prepare you for building pretty much any kind of software. If yo…

Java Golang < Borgo < Rust