Two companies that I was in the process interviewing, cancelled the interviews this week. I am thankfully employed but I was thinking of leaving the company I work for. Having said that there are other companies still willing to hire.
In some parts of Africa, growing khat is more lucrative than growing food. This causes acute food shortages. I am not sure how this is going to affect growing food, if cannabis is more lucrative than growing food.
One minor quibble. Intel pushed Itaniums hard at on point. The machines were huge and I had to have additional power routed to my office to run it. Thankfully AMD introduced the x64 architecture and the PC industry was saved. Between the power consumption of the Itanium and how hard the IA64 assembly was to debug. I atleast welcomed the X64 architecture.
One company in particular, gave me fairly useful feedback. For a design question, I was going all over the place not taking hints from the interviewer. I did not realize that I was trying to cram everything into one hour. Anyways, I will consider them in the future. Usually other companies do not bother.
Efficient access is more than the interface on the client. The wire format matters. If the server sends the data in the row form from a columnar stored table in row form, it wont be efficient, there will be too many transformations. Perhaps a way for the client to tell the server what format it wants the data may be useful.
I have been prepping for almost 6 months now. I look at the stocks new hires get at my company and what my refreshers are. Companies seem to be relying on the fact, most people are too lazy to leetcode and will not give good refreshers. I have been with the company long enough that leaving and coming back atleast will add 600k to my earnings in the next 4 years. One thing however though I notice, that my coding speed has improved a lot by doing timed leetcode questions. I also look at the complexity of everything I write far more than I used to. Overall it looks like a win, win for me. The moment my company gave same level of stock as I would get in 2 years to a new college hire, I have decided to move. I have been with the company for more than 18 years. It is possible it is my company that does this. I hear goog refreshers are good.
Per the article, Redis requires a network call to the redis server. They wanted an in memory cache. Not sure how would you keep the per machine in memory cache in synch without change propagation to all the machines. This looks like a simple TTL cache.
There is a cost to manage the instance, upgrading monitoring etc. Even though there is no SLA on the basic tier, I would imagine Azure does some maintenance and monitoring. However is it worth 35$ etc, I am not sure. Also, the basic tier does not have replicas. If you want replicas you have to pay 100$ per month.