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That's not what the parent post was referring to. If SQS (or your ability to talk to it) is down and your database isn't, what do you do?

Can you elaborate? To my knowledge, 401k target date funds sometimes have small allocations to REITs (like 3-5%) or REIT indices that might be comprised of a mix of commercial and …

Focus on high value work that can't be automated is terrible advice?

Totally common IME. Bluey is for the parents. Kids like it but don't love it.

"Sitting down with an RFC and coding up what it says is nowhere near as simple as it seems like it should be" I learned this for myself when I tried coding an IRC server for fun. Q…

https://mysqlconnector.net/ is very good. Dapper and ^ that works very well IME. Agreed about replication.

1) "Web application development" doesn't happen in a vacuum. Often it happens in contexts where the "backend" is also consumed by various non-web applications. In those contexts, c…

At the team level, keeping M to 1-2 works really well in my experience. Of course M is never really 1 or 2 because you're always wrapping up small details from $previous, looking a…

Anecdotally, I've observed across my ~12 year career so far that an emphasis on estimates and estimating is negatively correlated to productivity, lead time, velocity, impact, posi…

It's absolutely cargo cult nonsense and judging by the surrounding comments I'm SO glad we've all finally decided to stop pretending like it isn't.

Am I correct in thinking that PG's MVCC implementation results in a worse story around offloading some mild OLAP workloads to a replica without affecting the primary? Anecdotally, …

In theory it is good practice, but in practice enforcing referential integrity is not free and it makes satisfying other non-functional requirements harder. Engineering is about tr…

Fair enough. To reiterate, Im personally not a fan but I would say they are generally usable.

MySQL stored procedures work fine when invoked from application code IME. The lack of native collection types is not ideal when you need to inject N values to a bit of data logic. …

Ive had a fair amount of low effort "big wins" in my career, simply by reversing the technical decision/implementation of people who took this idea too far. IMO the OP sits at a re…

Ownership disputes often stem from non-technical issues. Two orgs with different agendas might feel they require ownership of a given piece of tech to drive their own agenda forwar…

I am talking about non-technical roadblocks. Cross-team product engineering projects can sometimes involve ownership changes which affects the company in non-technical ways. Some i…

If I understand you correctly, I have felt similar angst before in this kind of role. Basically, you see "org-wide" work that needs to be done but it requires some level of "org-wi…

Agreed. There is also a natural disincentive here to optimize the architecture for "team-based flow". As a product engineer, you often get promoted for doing projects that essentia…

At a certain amount of scale its net “simpler” if the analytics people are free to do their jobs without worrying they will bring down “the app” and vice versa. OLAP has certainly …

I dont agree with the premise that running transactional and analytical workloads on the same database is architecturally “simpler”. In my experience this is only true at very low …

Kubernetes

DDIA is a good book and I've read it at least 3 times, but there is no substitute for real world experience. I also think a lot of system design material is oddly positioned in tha…

Year to date -> The market is down almost 20%, long treasuries are down almost 18%, IAU (gold ETF) is up 2.75% Seems like it's doing it's job quite nicely.