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I openly admit to working at Reddit. In fact, I got hired after reading a post in the monthly hiring thread here on HN.

Calling MSK expensive is maybe not being clear enough. It's more than 2x the cost of the raw EC2 instances. Then on top of that, to get metrics at the per broker level there's an u…

> The amount of money you are saving by WFH full-time, assuming you properly leverage the opportunity (i.e. cooking own meals and multitasking chores), far outweighs any paltry not…

Curious to hear more details about your thoughts on this. I've done some pretty significant improvements around my team's use of it in the last few months and can't say I've had th…

I'm not a fan of it, personally. The interface is lacking, configurability after launch is minimal at best, and the observability is EXTREMELY poor because you can't get per-topic …

As somebody who deals with AWS professionally on a daily basis, I will 100% admit that it can be confusing for people to figure out pricing and scale. I have to talk with engineers…

I definitely have to thank this awesome site as well. Had been stuck in a position where I didn't feel like I had a way out, due to a combination of a non-compete on myself and res…

Serious question: What makes it completely awful? Do you have ideas that might make it a better experience, besides "just use the old UI"?

Would be very curious to hear more specific examples of this one, haven't seen it firsthand.

Having just gone through the interview process with a very well known tech company, as someone who is honestly pretty terrible at interviewing, I think some companies actually get …

I figured it was something to that effect, but it's still helpful to call out the consumer protections since a significant portion of Apple's customer base is in the USA.

Post author called out the warranty multiple times. If you're in the USA, at least, bear in mind that doing what's described in the post does not void the warranty. The Magnuson-Mo…

There's nothing adventurous about using your preferred operating system and enjoying being able to have a working game experience. I've spent significant time in all 3 major OS opt…

For random toy projects, spinning up a whole Kubernetes cluster is absolutely overkill (unless part of the project is learning Kubernetes). The thing is as you get further along, f…