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Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by pmyjavec »

tsunamifury wrote: post #365
jventura wrote: post #238

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Oh, I feel your pain! There's too much fashion going on in this industry, and the high salaries and the youth rediscovering the same concepts from 40 years ago doesn't help.. I mean, it's great to have this new tech and all, but when you're trying to build something to last some years, sometimes it's hard to filter the crap between all the buzzwords. It just reinforces the thought that smart people should just leave…

https://youtu.be/zut2NLMVL_k "All my work will be obsolete by 2005" -Steve Jobs If you aren't willing to accept that obselence is part of life, then you are either building something you aren't passionate about or confused about the cruelty of time.

As inspirational as Steve Jobs was, he wasn't correct about everything, nor was he a brilliant engineer.

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by bpicolo »

neeleshs wrote: post #311
hobs wrote: post #210

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Yeah, add in things like MORE THAN ONE PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT and LETTING YOUR CUSTOMER HOST AN INSTANCE OF YOUR MICROSERVICES and you have guaranteed your own suffering.

It is a matter of tooling. One data center or ten, it does not matter much with proper tooling. We deploy to seven data centers with a click of a button, with rollback, staggered deployment etc. Centralized logging using ELK gives us great visibility in to each DC, without worrying about individual microservice instances.

Easy until you realize you need to somehow manage + configure hundreds of services to run your dev environment...

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by dmix »

rjvir wrote: post #303

There was a time when Heroku seemed just as foreign to me as Docker does in this article. - So shared webhosting is dead, apparently Heroku is the future? - Why Ruby, why not just PHP? - Wait, what's Rails? Is that different from Ruby? - What's MVC, why do I need that for my simple website? - Ok, so I need to install RubyGems? What's a Gemfile.lock? None of these commands work on Windows. - I don't like this new text…

When you heard about Rails it sounds like it was mature enough for you to start using it. Because it was a serious improvement over PHP, as I took a similar route. Docker/virtualization is still early and people are figuring out how the pieces fit together, and what the best pieces are. So it's best to wait until then (IMO).

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by stepanhruda »

jessaustin wrote: post #175
stepanhruda wrote: post #85

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Wait a minute, this sounds familiar. looks at username Oh.

'mrhektor is a green account.

I should've been more clear. The story sounded familiar, because I worked with them and recognized them based on the username.

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by CrLf »

phamilton wrote: post #287
jalfresi wrote: post #240

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Have to admit, as a fellow Go dev, with single binary static compiles, I don't really GET why I need docker... all it seems to offer is an increased workload and complicated build proc

Isolation is a strong argument. You don't want one process to starve another. You can get isolation via one-host-per-service or you can get it using cgroups. Docker sort of gives you both, without the waste of one-per-host and with a manageable set of tooling around cgroups.

systemd runs services in their own cgroup by default and gives you control over the resources alloted to those cgroups.

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by jventura »

tsunamifury wrote: post #365
jventura wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I feel your pain! There's too much fashion going on in this industry, and the high salaries and the youth rediscovering the same concepts from 40 years ago doesn't help.. I mean, it's great to have this new tech and all, but when you're trying to build something to last some years, sometimes it's hard to filter the crap between all the buzzwords. It just reinforces the thought that smart people should just leave…

https://youtu.be/zut2NLMVL_k "All my work will be obsolete by 2005" -Steve Jobs If you aren't willing to accept that obselence is part of life, then you are either building something you aren't passionate about or confused about the cruelty of time.

I'd say it goes beyond than building physical or virtual things. I'm talking about something that resembles compound interests, where you build knowledge or experience over previous knowledge and experience such that in some years you are way ahead of where you are now.

I'm basically saying that the high churning we have now does not give you enough time to build significant experiences that you can use later on in life, and, as such, it's the opposite of a good investment to the future. It is almost as we are only living for the present status, forgetting that on the future we will have less patience and energy to have to "re-learn" almost the same things.

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by mack73 »

koolba wrote: post #244
huuu wrote: post #160

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"I am frustrated by the industry as a whole" Unfortunately I have to agree as a developer. My job is to make a fast, reliable, stable product but at the same time I'm questioned the tools I use by people who don't have any knowledge but heard the latest trend. But sometimes it's also very easy to please people. Big data: just insert 10M records in a database and suddenly everyone is happy because they now have big da…

> But sometimes it's also very easy to please people. Big data: just insert 10M records in a database and suddenly everyone is happy because they now have big data :| Since when is 10M records is considered big data? My goto gauge for big data is that it can't fit in memory on a single machine. And since that means multiple TB[1] these days, most people don't really have big data. [1]: *Heck you can even rent ~2TB fo…

> big data is that it can't fit in memory on a single machine

A Lucene index can be much larger than your current RAM. It can be 100x that. The data will still queryable. Lucene reads into memory the data it needs in order to produce a sane result. Lucene is pretty close to being industry standard for information retrieval.

My definition is instead "when your data is not queryable using standard measures".

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by artellectual »

mamcx wrote: post #321
rajeshp1986 wrote: post #109

The article perfectly summarizes my frustration and sentiment. These days I hear these buzzwords all time. I work as a consultant for an enterprise product and most people whom I meet they somehow catch these buzzwords and blurt it out in front of everyone during meetings and discussions to either showoff that they know technology and things that are in the market these days(also latest iphone, apple news, tesla, spa…

This is how we manage this problem at the times when Visual Basic was the king and we use instead Visual FoxPro. People want theirs apps to be made with Visual Studio (BTW, FoxPro was part of the package). So they ask: "In what is the app made"? "In Visual, Sir." Done. End of story (like most of the time, obviously some times people are more dangerous and press it ;) ). ---- The point is not focus in the exact word b…

I think the buzzword abuse exists because of people who don't want to take the time to learn to real skill, and just want shortcuts to sound smart and relevant.

I am very skeptical of people who are "BizDev" or "Project Managers" or "Managers" or "Scrum Master" they generally don't know what they're talking about and rely on buzzwords.

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by walshemj »

koolba wrote: post #244
huuu wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I am frustrated by the industry as a whole" Unfortunately I have to agree as a developer. My job is to make a fast, reliable, stable product but at the same time I'm questioned the tools I use by people who don't have any knowledge but heard the latest trend. But sometimes it's also very easy to please people. Big data: just insert 10M records in a database and suddenly everyone is happy because they now have big da…

> But sometimes it's also very easy to please people. Big data: just insert 10M records in a database and suddenly everyone is happy because they now have big data :| Since when is 10M records is considered big data? My goto gauge for big data is that it can't fit in memory on a single machine. And since that means multiple TB[1] these days, most people don't really have big data. [1]: *Heck you can even rent ~2TB fo…

I would have said when a single file is bigger than the maximum size of disk so say 4TB - its whey we used Map Reduce back in the 80's at British telecom for billing systems - the combined logs would have been to big to fit on a single disk

Re: “It's The Future”

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Post by chadgeidel »

koolba wrote: post #244
huuu wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I am frustrated by the industry as a whole" Unfortunately I have to agree as a developer. My job is to make a fast, reliable, stable product but at the same time I'm questioned the tools I use by people who don't have any knowledge but heard the latest trend. But sometimes it's also very easy to please people. Big data: just insert 10M records in a database and suddenly everyone is happy because they now have big da…

> But sometimes it's also very easy to please people. Big data: just insert 10M records in a database and suddenly everyone is happy because they now have big data :| Since when is 10M records is considered big data? My goto gauge for big data is that it can't fit in memory on a single machine. And since that means multiple TB[1] these days, most people don't really have big data. [1]: *Heck you can even rent ~2TB fo…

I literally heard that "Big Data is something that is too large to fit into an Excel spreadsheet". The speaker was serious.

I unsubscribed from that (non-tech) podcast.

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