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It feels like a very minor upgrade. The only thing that seems improved is that transparency mode seems closer to true “transparency” but it’s a relatively subtle improvement.

I would suggest a deeper scan of the site for copy editing - there’s at least one mention of “diary” when “dairy” is clearly intended. (I’d probably wait for more usage and support…

Well, thought I’d share my personal experience and the focus areas of our platform engineering team, since the DevOps/SRE definitions are more-or-less correct. I’ve seen Platform E…

Fairly common practice for Postgres setups is to sit pgbouncer ( https://www.pgbouncer.org/ ) between your app process and your Postgres instance. Connection setup/tear-down is che…

Splunk and datadog

Not sure exactly what you’re looking for, but here are the key bits and pieces: - uwsgi - Python - Django - Docker - k8s Then the bits and pieces outside of the Python stack itself…

Rover.com | Sr. Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, Onsite We believe that everyone should be able to experience the unconditional love of a dog. That’s why Rover’s innovative…

Rover.com | Sr. Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, Onsite We believe that everyone should be able to experience the unconditional love of a dog. That’s why Rover’s innovative…

30-50m for ./manage.py migrate seems way too long. Are you collapsing your migrations? Unless you need to maintain multiple production environments with different versions of your …

# ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # Rover.com - SEATTLE Let's make a checklist... 1. You love dogs. Check, we got that => https://www.rover.com/ro…

Indeed - I've talked a sitter on Rover who was planning on listing their profile in NYC as a traveling sitter as a way to get a free stay in the city, while also watching someone's…

While Silicon Valley is no doubt a unique place, it's odd to follow the quote: "We don’t have billion dollar Internet companies with the likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and A…

I'd say so... The rails community is generally larger than the Python community (at least in web-specific stuff), and there are tons of .NET folks due to Microsoft.

We were using PGSql at the beginning of this project, but I was lured by the automatic backups / restore capabilities that RDS provides and I migrated. One of my co-workers used to…

Rows, not columns. But more so than really large tables, I find MySQL will tip over even on smaller tables, not very hot tables, if I want to do the work without downtime. (It may …

I'm curious to hear what people are currently doing. I used to inline the CSS as more of a onetime build-step type thing, but found it to be a real pain. The main downside to this …

Having South take that leap into Django core will be awesome. I'll bet one natural result of it entering core will be better shared understanding of best practices & foibles of dif…

I'd love to see St Louis start to develop a tech startup scene. Low cost of living, really cool neighborhoods and lots of smart programmers at stodgy big companies. It seems like t…

Excited? Definitely. Not sure about knowledgeable. ;)