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For our use case, we found the best approach was to clone all of the data to a temporary table with indices and constraints disabled, perform the updates, re-enable indices and con…

My first thought after reading the headline was that they had been placed under some kind of litigation hold and had to immediately back up all of their data on US customers to com…

Environment variables are the best way to handle feature flags. The 12 factor app provides some guidance for doing it the right way. [0] Feature flags do introduce complexity, but …

How does one find these high paying full time remote jobs? Most that I see with salaries listed on weworkremotely, Stack Overflow Jobs and the like top out around $150k. There are …

>(though maybe if marijuana becomes legal nationwide that will no longer be part of the test) The test isn't going anywhere until there's a reliable field sobriety for weed. Compan…

It's code that provisions or configures VMs, containers, cloud resources like RDS, etc. Usually this is accomplished using tools like Terraform, Ansible playbooks, SaltStack, Kuber…

Are there a lot of American expat software engineers in the UK? For most people, it would be a steep pay cut to move from the US to anywhere in the EU.

There is lots of truth to this, but it's not that hard to save up for 6 to 24 months of expenses on an engineer's salary, assuming you are living within your means. Dependents comp…

My bank has a $100 minimum for transaction alerts. Sigh.

In my experience using AWS, you can spin up new autoscaled instances pretty quickly. I don't even have a custom AMI, I use a generic image and run startup scripts to kick off my se…

Continuous Integration

Terrafirm isn't provider neutral. It is just a declarative wrapper for cloud provider APIs. Code using one provider is not easily translated to another. I do think it's an excellen…

Has there ever been a high profile early access game that crossed the finish line? It seems like studios usually take the money and run, like Bohemia Interactive with DayZ. Five ye…

Simulating millions of users should be well within the capabilities of a company as large as Amazon. Off the shelf load testing tools like Locust can create thousands of fake users…

What features of Kubernetes are only available for a price? Since Kubernetes is fully open source and self hosted/available from any cloud provider now, how is it crippled?

Thoughts on Nomad after admittedly minimal dabbling: I pushed for using Nomad at my job without success. Managerial perceptions of Kubernetes as "the consensus" is a self-fulfillin…

How does this work? Do you work 40 hours compressed into 3/4 days, or do you take a pay cut? Do you find that you are able to be productive for entirety of the 10 or 14 hour days r…

This is a great idea. They need to hook this thing up to Glassdoor.

>I’ll be on sabbatical from my job. . . and working on building better profiling tools for Ruby (and maybe Python??). I can't comment on Ruby's profiling stack, but I think that cP…

This is ridiculous. It's one thing to claim that 100k is "not enough" if you live in a high cost of living (which is still dubious, considering the median income in NYC is half of …