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joelhandwell

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About joelhandwell

Develop, Test, Deploy Infrastructure as Code. Help developers to understand Linux and start using DevOps tools. Help system administrators to learn basic coding and Git and start using DevOps tools. twitter.com/JoelHandwell

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    It won the first prise of under 22 programming contest in Japan on Oct 21st, 2019, created from 2019 August in several weeks alone. Naoto Uehara, the developer was a Python user wh…

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    Comment #17448360

    >Those limited examples didn't seem to be the spirit of Joel Handwell's wish. My wish is the same wish as the open letter dear-github ( https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github )…

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    Comment #17448287

    Thinking about the fact that Github have Github.com (production service) and Github Enterprise (self hosted), could it be like this? Github.com = Github Core + Production Services …

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    Comment #17448096

    Thanks TheHydroImpulse for the insights. So Github IS monolith. It really makes sense that splitting is too much work for just open sourcing and I do not see business gain to inves…

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    Comment #17448063

    Reading Github Engineering blog posts related to their architecture. https://goo.gl/amkJfV As far as I read so far, Github looks like composed of micro services, or at least split …

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    Comment #17448025

    I did a search and found http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/11/6/product-resque-git... It's talking about a component of Github backend called Resque (Distrubuted Job Queue) As l…

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    Comment #17447976

    Oh, was Github monolith? I did not read any articles about their architecture so I assumed that Github could be composed by micro services, and in that case, splitting could go eas…

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    Comment #17447948

    >Why? >What are you waiting for? If Github was made with micro services architecture, it could be split into open source "Client side + Test-backend" and closed sourced "Production…

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    Comment #17447884

    My words were not clear, I meant and edited to "semi-democratic" way. The voting is one indicator but I also believe strong vision and strategy of leader is the key to success. And…

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    Comment #17447611

    Not sure if they will join conversation but just now I invited @satyanadella @jeffmcaffer @natfriedman @defunkt @bkeepers into the Github issue. If you want them comment, cast vote…

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    Comment #17447558

    +1 button could work as voting system to reduce that maintenance burden too. Semi-democratic method can be introduced to merge most voted and looks good to MS.

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    Comment #17447476

    Misunderstandings looks like happened regarding my intention. I'm totally not interested in running my own github instance in other server just like people who signed the open lett…

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    Comment #17230409

    Submitted an issue to dear-github. "Host Github by itself as open source project" https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/304 Issue body: Microsoft open sourced Xamarin a…

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    Comment #17156746

    So https://netplan.io/ was invented to replace them right?

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    Comment #9279956

    For example, 70% of inbox.google.com web app is written in Java and transpiled into JS. And front end is written in Closure. Inbox Android app uses the core as it is while iPhone a…