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Pagerduty is up

Also, Portuguese for boat.

Well, not in a jar ... Right?

Ah gotcha. Apologies not a native speaker so the nuance was lost on me

Unless you're using a functional programming language that does not support iteration. (and even if it does support it, it's typically preferred to use tail recursion)

This sounds great, and in theory should work on a well integrated team of autonomous individuals. I guess as in most things, common sense is the key requirement to make this a real…

I'm currently working on a mssql shop, and on aws it's more than twice the price vs postgres or aurora. I don't see how you can justify the price difference

Never has man so eloquently expressed the frustration of millions (OK maybe thousands). The trick to use C++, is to use less of it. C with classes and namespaces. Oh and smart poin…

I believe resilience is the big one

I agree, I regret my use of the term "culture fit".

Please see my other reply below

You are correct, "culture fit" is not a good descriptor of what I meant. We hire people we believe we will be able to work with. It's not a popularity contest, we evaluate problem …

I always interview for "culture fit". In my experience, that's almost always the bottleneck, and the technical part is rarely a problem. Learning a new skill is not an earth-shatte…

In my experience it's too high. I see a lot of unit test code that doesn't do anything except add complexity. But again, I guess this will depend on the nature of the project

I may be in the minority, but I find the 50% unit test coverage not useful, and sometimes harmful. Caveat emptor - depends a lot on the project, and how often you are changing the …

I guess you don't know your audience ;)

During my bachelor's we used this all-encompassing book by two of the teachers called Distributed Systems for System Architects (DSSA for friends). It followed a case study of a fi…

Going back to the white blood cell count. The gold standard is flow cytometry. If there is an interferent in the sample, or if the cytometer raises any flag, in some labs the backu…

I'm sorry but this is incorrect for a lot of blood tests. When the theranos debacle unfolded there was a paper making the rounds (no doubt leveraging on the media's attention)that …

For that, hire a programmer. Need a dependable architecture for mission critical software? You get the point ...

Some people know how to program. Other people dedicated years to the study of computer architectures, first order logic, distributed systems, fault tolerant systems, etc ... In my …

It saddens me that laypeople equate software development to writing code, that's like saying an architect just knows how to draw.

There has to be a better way ...