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IMO, kubernetes is overkill for a small non-homogeneous home cluster. What I use and really recommend is using systemd +/- docker. It just becomes so darn simple. Do not go the com…

So 400 writes per second is not exactly what I would think about when thinking about a "Production" environment.

I do hope they adopt one solution or the other. Rust for me seems incomplete because of this. Another issue I have with it is perfectly described in this article: https://theta.eu.…

Shout out to the great people in the KDE Community. I was in high-school and being enamored with the open-source concept ("You mean I can modify anything I want about it?" - hah) I…

Recently experimented a bit with Rust and I found the reverse to be true. You cannot compose types in Rust. You compose behaviors not types. Very important distinction as I found o…

Seems so much work for something already implemented with messaging brokers, though. In my opinion, clients themselves shouldn't worry about if the server is ready or not, only han…

Thank you very much for these articles. Really top-notch work and provided me with some great insights!

Never tried with MsgPack, but I did try Protobuf. The reason I dislike Protobuf is that there is an extra code generation step I need to do. When using a compiled language, I guess…

Recently I started delving into gRPC vs RPC over RabbitMq using json as the mesage format. I saw that for small to medium sized messages, gRPC is actually slower. Of course, this w…

Where Conan doesn't really shine is crossplatform dependencies. For example, when a dependency requires to have been built with a specific toolchain. Thus, if your goal is write on…

Loved it! It gets crazy with the pawns, I was so surprised. The visuals of the game are so and so, but they are really cool nonetheless. Two thumbs up from me!

I didn't see it back when I was doing Qt, but writing a Qt app for every platform is hard. In theory you can have Qt apps on Android, iOs, Linux, etfc but in all fairness, it is ju…

A while back we explored the use of Cassandra. We wanted to keep some event related data there and for it to be relatively fast read-wise in order for us to do all sorts of reporti…

Hah! Brings back old memories. I actually did something similar for an RPG I was trying to create from scratch using Qt3D (back in the day when it first came out and was getting st…

I think software takes longer to build now than it did before even with all our software advancements. Abstracting the market requirements completely, the new technologies are very…

Oh wow! That is great news! Great job, will dig out my leap motion once I get back and try it out!

I actually reverse engineered most of the code for the drivers for LeapMotion for my undergraduate project. Turns out it was illegal as per their TOS so my professor had me quit th…

You can come up with a better reply of course. But can you really beat the "are we aligned in the same direction" from the CEO and the other executives? Especially on the 2nd day. …

It is pretty interesting how this conversation goes. CTO: I can't do that on my 2nd day. CEO: I thought your interests align with the company. It is your job to align everyone unde…

In the beginning, you are on an island, you have an idea to go on an adventure, so you start building a raft with the other guy on the island. The other guy has no building skills,…

CTO of a small-ish startup here. Here is my take on it: 1) Code doesn't really matter as long as it solves the issue you are trying to solve. Don't expect your code to be beautiful…

This should be a default in Eloquent. I cannot tell you how many hidden performance issues we've encountered due to its magic methods.

As the CTO of a small-ish startup, this rings so true. All our employees were hired from our network. Its only now that we'll look for other sources to benefit or hiring pipeline.

You should read: The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work Its a real treat.

You should give Taiga a try, it is self-hosted but it is seriously fast and fun to try.