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I stopped waiting for people to tell me what to do. There are too many aspiring managers out there that just don't have anything subtantial to say.
I stopped waiting for people to tell me what to do. There are too many aspiring managers out there that just don't have anything subtantial to say.
A good manager will try to get their team to “just do it” and take initiative. They shouldn’t need to be like an orchestra conductor. The team should be like a Jazz band.
Designing more forgiving interfaces. I work in the public sector in India. Usually forms here are phrased in threatening terms - you can submit any document only once, and there is a threat of perjury for just uploading the wrong document etc. I proposed that we can utilise cheap cloud storage so that users can submit documents as many times as they want, and as long as any of the uploaded documents are correct, then…
Developed and upheld a process for writing requirement documents for software development with my team mate.
Started to do scrum master'ish role.
Wrote a tool to manage our (really custom) development environment.
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I'd be interested to hear more voting down microservices. The title didn't actually specify, but I assume you felt it had a positive impact? :) When was this, and how does it look now?
Yes, I felt it had a positive impact. The system was already over-engineered for its purpose, something virtually every senior would admit if pressed. uServices would only add to that administrative overhead at design time, and massive operational complexity at runtime. Having come off of a project that supported 400k registered and 100k active users on a single server , this project isn't yet at that scale and they…
Back in the late 00s we horizontally scaled a monolithic project with 5mil daily users and another 8mil daily users. Peak was 10k and 15k requests/sec of dynamic per-user webpages.
The hardest part was the databases. Our solution was standard for the time but pretty ugly nowadays: sharding MySQL by user id along with heavy use of memcached.
Would have killed for some of the modern scalable databases. Sometimes I wonder if some people using microservices are chasing challenges since much of the actually necessary hard parts are already figured out.