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How does private equity businesses operating better improve our retirement savings? Wont they just improve the PE fund performance and benefit only the investors ?I am genuinely cu…

In my 20 years of engineering, all my distributed systems knowledge was learnt in a period of two years under two amazing engineers working in two failed startups One was like thos…

Why is this sloppy. The author is not saying that AI is bad but that the current capital being invested in the UD is mostly betting on AI. If you remove AI then what is left?

you're _Google_, your own work is always at risk of getting co-opted by others, and external people will view and criticize your work accordingly. This rang so true to me and it pr…

Product support is an integral part of enterprise software engineering. Product management does not know what adding a new feature or deprecating an old feature means. It is the re…

Google is not a good example to look at if you are thinking about enterprise software as these need to be supported long term and Google is not very good at that. They have a histo…

I realized this once when I went down the rabbit hole of SQL standards. ISO SQL standard - 187 CHF https://www.iso.org/standard/76583.html ANSI SQL standard - 237 USD for non membe…

Thanks! It was a really sweet deal for the founder as he left as far as I know and I suspect for their direct reports as well. Its been a while but it still brings out some bittern…

Maybe PE firms are ok and mine was an extreme example but I got burned pretty badly. If I do have to work on a place backed by a PE firm for some reason, I would start out as a con…

That is funny as the exact thing happened in my startup as well (we were one of the roll-ees) We got some suits sent by the PE after the funding round.They politely said that they …

I have firsthand experience of how PE ruins startups. We were a small startup and unfortunately our founder decided to go with a PE firm rather than a VC firm for a round of fundin…

How is this different from a standard enterprise service bus style architecture using ActiveMQ or Kafka ?

By definition, microservices are independent of stack. Every service in theory can have its own stack. My recommendation would be to stick with microservices but start migrating ea…

Internet Protocols. Specifically the beauty and simplicity of IPv4

Sanderson’s the way of kings introduced me to audiobooks and I have never looked back. These days I just buy the audible narration without the membership

Another unrelated thing that I discovered while buying my Audi in California is that I have to have to purchase the services from the same dealer as well.

Twitter should be at twitter.elonmusk.com instead of twitter.com

I think there are great directors and movies in the adult drama genre but a lot of them are not being made in English anymore.

I actually dont like meat because of the texture. If you give me meat which tastes like beans, I will eat it

That is what I came away with as well. We just went through a pregnancy and the last thing we had a problem with was inclusive language. Also for non native speakers, we have non n…

There is quality, quantity and then there is common sense. I have seen an entire new dependency system invented because the author did not like open source ones. It worked great fo…

This is also dangerous. It makes the publisher an easy target for cyber criminals.

UML helps me think clearly. Specifically sequence diagrams, ERDs and flow charts

A datapoint of 1 is not really how I would characterize experience in a continent with literally thousands of large corporations.