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For some time, I used org-mode for almost all type of note taking. I love the structure being functional without HTML rendering. However, it's pretty much locked to emacs and so th…

I've run in to this interesting question multiple times mostly during systems design interviews, but I'm never quite sure what's the "best" way to address this since I've not encou…

A lot of words that we use are arbitrary anyway. I respect people's preferences for their style of communication, but let's stop pretending that things like blacklist and whitelist…

> 2. Linux servers are targeted and breached. Linux desktop share is too small to be worth it (yet). Why aren't we replacing them with something better then? Why are most servers s…

DP as a paradigm is very interesting. From a high level view, one can appreciate the essential concepts that make it work, with things like memoization, optimal substructure, etc. …

I wonder which takes more time, take home tests or LeetCode grind...

I’m not really arguing which one is easier to run, maintain, or anything; I was just making a point about abstractions and system modularisation. Hypothetically, I should be able t…

> Anyone that isn't able to write modular code using the language features is going to write network spaghetti code, with the added benefit to debug network packets and connection …

I currently work on a project that has struggled to make actual sense for a few years now. Sure I like getting paid, but there's a growing void in my soul.

Thanks. Were you trying to link a specific video? Your link just points to the entire playlist.

I actually have this bookmarked somewhere but forgot about it. Thanks!

There are myriad of ways to improve and optimise application performance, but one of the most commonly used is caching. I want to learn more about caching strategies especially in …

I know it’s actually been a while, but I’ve only recently learned that they stopped selling eBooks online in favour of their subscription service. I do tend to prefer physical book…

I can't consider myself to be an emacs superuser but I've built muscle memory around its key bindings so on JetBrains IDEs, I use my custom emacs based key maps. I used to be an Ec…

When people say writing tests first slows you down, they are usually only looking at the upfront costs. They do not factor in the costs of maintenance, and having to fix and/or ext…

Are SWEs at Google expected to firefight especially outside of normal work hours? This is one thing I imagine SREs are expected to be doing that regular SWEs aren't. I think this i…

You can easily serialise a well fleshed out (i.e. non-anemic) object. Does the view layer in this particular example need to know the encapsulated business rule? In my experience, …

> I just want to underline that a good engineer should not blindly trust anything, even if it seems to be written by a well received author. Doesn't this also apply to the opinions…

I don't understand how anemic domain models are irrelevant now especially in a time where a lot of software practitioners seem to observe domain driven design. In the age of micros…

Not sure what exactly you meant with this. Are you suggesting that we migrate over to Postgres, or that we can somehow use the Postgres operator with MongoDB? I'm honestly open to …

Yeah, sounds like operators really are a perfect fit for this use case. For your e2e, I imagine you use the operators to spin up new database instances for every run? I really like…

> unless you use a host only PV and if you do that you are likely limiting you db instamce to a specific node which can have scaling and/or HA impacts This is exactly what we do, a…

Yeah, this is one of the things we are considering at the moment. However, if I understand correctly, for MongoDB specifically, you need to be using their enterprise offering to be…

For the specific incident I mentioned in the original post, I didn't quite get the exact details of the problem, but I think the gist of it was that our MongoDB deployment was usin…

I'm curious if development teams prefer to run databases in or out of Kubernetes. For those who do, how to you make it work? What are the key points you think anyone who is conside…