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I recently toyed with a tiny VM for protobuf, you can use it in redpanda WASM streams, or in streaming pipeline (without having to use SAX parsers or IDL shenanigans with projected…

If only go had lambdas, functional interfaces and record classes...

I highly recommend anyone to read Google's [AIP]( https://google.aip.dev/ ). There's even a grpc schema linter for it. Put more focus on the resource data design than nitpicking on…

JSON parsing is a minefield, especially in cross-platforms scenarios (language and/or library). You won't encounter those problems on toy project or simple CRUD applications. For e…

If the application is in go, you can likely embed litestream.

glibc already does dynamic dispatch for the memcpy family of functions.

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It sure does.

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Not zero copy, requires deserialization.

Because it would be a trivial indicator that you're in incognito mode.

There's a very high chance this is monetization of botnets, which adds even more to the overall shadyness.

Python is a portability minefield. I'll spend more time trying to get the script/package run than reading the bash script.

See https://backtrace.io , disclaimer, previous employee.

rtb bid request volume can easily go 1m/sec, this is not impressions, but offers to buy for an impression.

Technical challenges and salary. In my local market, most jobs are web shops and/or CRUD business applications with low pay.

Tables as queues is perfectly legit, one less component to worry about.

I received my first paper nigerian scam last month!

https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/

They have a few people and a tiny office recruiting for developers. I work beside them. https://www.peersight.com/job/appnexus-senior-software-engin...

As a software engineer in Montreal, you can get above market rate at these companies: - AdGear - AppNexus - Element.ai - Google - Hopper - Shopify

This. Don't forget integer type defined by implementation. Very easy to shoot yourself in the foot in when consumers/producers are not written in the same language, even more if it…

I'm curious about this, could you point at the documentation?

AFAIK, the Optane disks are _byte_ addressable.