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This really hits home. I work at a recently IPO'ed unicorn that is doing extremely well and can confirm that in the early days (sub 100 employees when I started) we were more conce…

I'll just leave this here: https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1464109933390036996

I currently work in a unicorn which recently IPOed and can confirm that I have the same experience as the author of this article. I also had a very similiar experience at my previo…

This also reflects how broken hiring is in tech. Leetcode and algorithm memorisation has very little to do with being a "good" developer. Can you communicate your ideas well? Can y…

So I guess pay as you go is too expensive for your org? Be curious to understand why you feel it's too expensive when it completely extrapolates any kafka management.

What a beautiful soul. We should all be so lucky to be remembered this way. I didn't know the man, but very grateful for DirectX and all the amazing experiences it's allowed myself…

As someone who is in another high growth start up, one of the fastest in the world (not hyperbole) I wish I could upvote this specific comment more: "The problem with growing as fa…

Because I've experienced a lot of number fiddling to describe total comp. For example we offer you X equity at Y valuation, when the valuation is something they have made up intern…

I think an additional piece to this, is to tell candidates what level they are interviewing for and the possible salary ranges, not total package, but actual base salary ranges. I …

What makes it difficult to look after? Genuinely curious. I've run it in production for years and its been pretty solid.

Not sure I understand the "large" comment. Painful to configure.. have you looked at CP-Ansible: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-ansible High Latency: Kafka's latency depends on…

Why is (no, kafka is never the answer)?

Myself and the Mrs. took free cycling lessons from the council a few years back with the idea we wanted to start cycling to work etc more. We decided it was too risky due to the te…

I realise this anecdotal, but as a Londoner living in Zone2, I can actually see and feel the difference in air quality. The skyline is far clearer on average, and I definitely noti…

Thanks for the info. I recently discovered this by running folding at home on my 16inch pro overnight, and waking up to my battery being at 5%. I suspect running the CPU full bore …

It's not deliveroo.

Thank you for the incredibly insightful comment. It's given me a lot to think about.

This is what I aspire to. Thanks for showing this is possible! It's something that I've been thinking about a lot lately, especially after reading "A company of one". That it's pos…