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Or they think extensively about performance. Regardless, the switch shows they pay attention and are willing to change.

> All this complexity I learned must have been for a reason! It doesn't have to be so emotional. Htmx can be helpful to keep all your state in one place, it's simpler to reason abo…

> 7. ... Another business I worked for literally hired and fired four separate teams to build an on-prem OpenStack cluster, and it was the most unstable, terrible computing platfor…

> The bigger cost is what will happen to your business when you're hard-down for a week because all your SQL servers are down, and you don't have spares, and it will take a week to…

> The 'hard part' isn't the engineering Depends on the problem. But I don't find a lot of companies that are all marketing and a bare cupboard of an engineering department. They ex…

Seems par for the course that even AWS employees don't even understand their pricing. I noticed the pricing similarity and tried to deploy to .metal instances. And that's when I go…

> I'm not certain that's true if you look at TCO. Sigh. This old trope from ancient history in internet time. > Yes, you can probably buy a server for less than the yearly rent on …

You're missing the purpose of the cache. At least for this argument it's mostly for network responses. HDD was 10ms, which was noticeable for cached network request that needs to g…

If you don't have scale, you don't need most of the features. Fire up PC, load application. Setup egress port open to internet. Setup application backup on cron job. Done until sca…

2015 called and wants it's hype back.

I ran the numbers the other day. For just compute with my particular load, my numbers say AWS costs 73928x more for lambda over my on-prem. Like for like is 1250x more. This is pre…

Why does everyone always jump to this fiction? You probably aren't paying a "cloud engineer" just to fiddle with cloud config full time with Internet sites ran on basement and clos…

A lieutenant is not the captain. As a lieutenant, I don't get to just go do whatever. I advise, I provide options, I make calls that don't to up to the CEO level. I pick tech stack…

> Your "freedom" is allowing kids to be abused since they don't have the checks of other adults being able to see them. At what cost? Innocent until proven guilty means that we don…

> Some teachers genuinely love and care for their students I agree. And they are among the best of teachers. But the ability of such a person to meet the love needs of a wanting ch…

On the other side, who's going to love them at school? Overloaded teachers? Administrators? Other still very immature students? Lack of love is a problem. School is quite clearly n…

There is a pretty big difference between "abuse happens" and "this environment is fundamentally worse". Schools have pretty abysmal records as far as preventing abuse to children. …

Keep in mind that the number of devs that are inexperienced is very high. Growth in the industry has been explosive. So there is a large population of devs that just don't understa…

There's a lot of nuance in cloud or no cloud. You jumped right to AC and diesel. You can have a pretty sizable server capability on modern hardware before you need to touch that. I…

The cloud was principally designed 2005-2013 era where it was pretty reasonable for an average website to need to go multi system to support traffic spikes. CPU hardware kind of st…

> But then, again - if you are designing codecs or choosing them, you probably want a monitor that makes it easy to see these things You keep bringing this up. I don't really care.…

There's room for different opinions. His font choice is terrible for my legibility. Maybe for others it's great. But it made the already difficult article that much harder to read.…

I've used Meteor. I thought it was a good system. It didn't have offline capability, at least not back when I used it. It really needed to be connected to work. But conceptually, y…

If I'm generalizing. B2C products frequently fit but not always. B2B products generally don't but can in some circumstances.

One user can have multiple clients. This is frequently the case, many to most users have both a PC and a phone. Also when one allows reasonable sharing of the account with family, …