Viewing profile — cntainer

it depends, I noticed that many engineers will input information on a slide following their thought process closely, they rarely think about the audience's perspective, especially …

Sure mate, because taking a messy list of confusing statements and turning it into something like: "High risk of failure on re-entry - foam strike more than 600 times bigger than t…

I can't remember the last time I saw a slide as mangled as the one in the article. It hurts my brain just reading it. But you are right, most engineers would consider that reasonab…

Pretty sure it means that Ruby isn't the bottleneck for your case. In most WebApps the first performance bottleneck people tend to hit is the DB: missing indexes, n+1 queries, etc.…

The magic of cloud is how quickly you can scale things up. If you're a new fast growing business it will give you a competitive edge. If you drank to cloud kool-aid from the beginn…

Cloud providers will always make their in-house offerings more attractive and easier to use compared to other (open standards) solutions. That's how you get locked in.

Just another example that a free market does not always ensure healthy competition and some times intervention is needed to level the playing field.

I don't think Google is afraid LLMs will "fix" all its issues. I think they're more afraid that their seemingly unassailable moat is suddenly exposed to disruption. People use sear…

"Making fiction become fact" - the dream of many present day entrepreneurs.

Sure, this helps by removing some of the bias, if done right. But many times devs end up perverting the original intent of the framework. Eg: I've seen many scrum teams transformin…

The people getting paid salaries to have a bird's eye view and veto power over those kinds of changes that could screw with my deliverable should be the ones knowledgeable and acco…

I expect a plumber to give me an estimate of time and cost for his "tasks" before starting work. Even if he doesn't tell me the exact cost upfront he'll still be able to tell me ro…

Management is punishing waitstaff by underpaying them and then blaming the customers for not tipping enough.

I hate tipping in general, but especially when it's expected or even demanded. The fact that restaurants or any business relying on the practice use it as a reason to underpay thei…

500 - the number of employees before your CEO becomes a political figure 1000 - the size of company when you’re at risk of losing accountability From my own experience and other so…

Not OP but this definitely rings a bell with me. I started my career in a software agency, maybe I was unlucky, but in this particular agency I overheard the more senior employees …

did that before: running a single monolithic app inside a kubernetes cluster on a single pod. I still feel dirty after doing it. My current hobby is to try and run monolithic apps …

I'm not an "on-premise bare-metal server absolutist". Of course there are trade offs in terms of convenience but there are also trade offs in terms of cost and performance and vend…

> It’s not like you can pull people off the street and have them get away with infrastructure this simple I know that in many cases simple != easy but I can't help feeling sad whil…

Agreed, but would most engineers understand that they can keep the simplicity of the solution if the underlying infrastructure is based in the cloud/serverless/etc? Fro my limited …

Good point, for normal executives (whatever that means). In my little bubble most executives I have to deal with believe themselves to be on par with solution/enterprise architects…

Imagine trying to present this kind of architecture to a room full of executives already sold on the "benefits" of kubernetes, big data, serverless, etc.

What a funny perspective, thanks for the laugh. I'm sure there isn't anyone in Europe who enjoys cold water, most of them lost their lives or got deported to the US during the last…

Probably didn't pass the interview. The implementation was rather simplistic and low quality. Here's a better enterprise version: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuz…

What's interesting is that having a growth mindset also seems to reduce the levels of the stress hormone. So it has a direct influence on your physical well-being, not just the psy…