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“Rails can’t scale” is so 10 years ago. It’s often other things like DB queries or network I/O that tend to be bottlenecks, or you have a huge Rails monolith that has a large memor…

Why would you think the person would have social media (or would even be on Chinese social media specifically), given the sophistication and planning?

Production database access must always be locked down from external traffic, and only allow traffic from the production application or within the production environment. Aside from…

Ruby now has Fibers and other constructs for async like Ractor. > Rails is a great framework and the productivity is unmatched, but with time a 2-3 years old Rails project is alway…

> Companies attempting to pay an engineer according to location, in my opinion, is another kind of discrimination. You are supposed to pay an employee based on his/her abilities, n…

It’s extremely rare to have projects be considered stable for years without any updates. Unless there are no external dependencies, uses very primitive or core language constructs,…

Great that it works for you and your particular project. Without knowing the details if your project and team, I’d take a monolith any day over 400 microrepos and the 70+ backend m…

Loose typing is a blessing. Reading and writing code with type declarations everywhere is a nightmare. YMMV.

Cars break down all the time but at least they can be moved to the side of the road. Are Teslas not able to be moved once they run out of juice? They’re heavy and even with a few f…

I’ve managed teams that have been excellent without scrum. Then there’s one or two teams that just cannot get things done and are all over the place. Had to introduce scrum to get …

Take a bootcamp - General Assembly, Hack Reactor. CS degrees are’t worth the 4 years if all you want is a job in tech or building products. If you’re looking to go into hardware, r…

As long as you have a good reason for your decision. Some things you just have to make tradeoffs and can’t please everyone. Enter key to submit or enter key for newline in a chat c…

They are lucrative because they are drab. No one wants to build the unsexy stuff such as enterprise tax systems. It’s also normally one that requires deep technical knowledge outsi…

Why does conservative == hate speech? Hate speech isn’t allowed on Twitter - I have not seen that happen without swiftly being modded out. If anything, I am seeing both sides of ar…

Is it really suppressing liberal discourse, or is the new Twitter balancing the sides by letting the conservative discourse run freely? It’s a common fallacy for folks to think tha…

Medical doctors spend a lot of time and money in med school and residency. They have malpractice risk, and perform more essential work like saving lives and improving people’s heal…

> It’s not like they won’t leave if they manage to get remote job elsewhere. Even without RTO, people will still leave for other jobs if the grass is greener on the other side. If …

I know lots of top performers who enjoy being back in the office, and low performers who would prefer WFH so they can coast under the radar