Case studies. For instance, Apache spark real life case study, why it’s the best, what are alternatives and what would be the cost breakdown for using it on bare metal vs SaaS like Google Cloud Dataptoc
Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
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#12thorough explanations of FP concepts like algebraic effects, linear programming, dependent types
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#13I like to read articles by people who feel they have something that's important to say. If you don't know what you should to write about, then anything you write is probably going to be pretty uninspiring. Good writing comes from a place of passion and urgency, a real drive to inform people about something that the author thinks is worth reading. This might be an answer you don't like very much, but seriously, all th…
I’m an individual contractor. I design and implement cloud architectures that replace entire teams of developers and charge way above the average. Yet the things I do seem so obvious to me that I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented. This idea continuously make me doubt if my experience is valuable enough for other engineers.
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#14I’m just a student but I would love some content around how to get started with serverless. Also comparing and contrasting different front end or UI frameworks and what you’ve seen that’s worked well or poorly at scale.
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#15Things like:
-How to do modern frontend dev without installing almost a Gb of transient onliner JS deps.
-Modern Frontend development for Backend devs.
-Mobile apps development without installing huge frameworks and heavy tooling.
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#16I like to read articles by people who feel they have something that's important to say. If you don't know what you should to write about, then anything you write is probably going to be pretty uninspiring. Good writing comes from a place of passion and urgency, a real drive to inform people about something that the author thinks is worth reading. This might be an answer you don't like very much, but seriously, all th…
I’m an individual contractor. I design and implement cloud architectures that replace entire teams of developers and charge way above the average. Yet the things I do seem so obvious to me that I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented. This idea continuously make me doubt if my experience is valuable enough for other engineers.
Yet the things I do seem so obvious to me that I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented.
Practically everyone who has a decent amount of experience delivering something feels that way. Usually it's a combination of the original team not having as much experience, or that the situation at the time didn't allow it (lack of resources, incompatible acceptance criteria that no longer apply, etc), or that you've missed something important that actually means the solution you're going for is the wrong approach. Understanding which it is is hard.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m an individual contractor. I design and implement cloud architectures that replace entire teams of developers and charge way above the average. Yet the things I do seem so obvious to me that I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented. This idea continuously make me doubt if my experience is valuable enough for other engineers.
Yet the things I do seem so obvious to me that I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented. Practically everyone who has a decent amount of experience delivering something feels that way. Usually it's a combination of the original team not having as much experience, or that the situation at the time didn't allow it (lack of resources, incompatible acceptance criteria that no lon…
Not that hard if the solution is about gathering and transforming data. The benchmarks are quite definitive: servers cost, performance, correct output.
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#18"How to read an error message."
This would help countless people new to development. Lots of systems (I'm looking at you, Java) throw up vast splats of tracebacks. Others chunder out great chunks of poorly digested code. Sometimes daunting even for experienced people.
An article with basic advice about looking for the one or two useful lines in error messages would be great.
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#19Things like: -How to do modern frontend dev without installing almost a Gb of transient onliner JS deps. -Modern Frontend development for Backend devs. -Mobile apps development without installing huge frameworks and heavy tooling.
I would also like to see this along with all the boring but important security stuff.
And by boring security stuff, I mean SAML in a ADFS environment with those frameworks techniques. And a sane upgrade and update strategy that doesn't mean that 90% of the effort will be spent on lifting up package versions.
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#20I don't know exactly how to name it but... Something along the lines of tutorials/courses how to make code for Error Handling (front/back), Defensive Programming, Observability, Tracing, Contexts/Stores at the Airbnb/Spotify/Basecamp level. That means, instead of hello world, show the best practices and all of the things that makes those things perform well, be maintainable.