The fact that it is both the end of coding as we know it and also just another tool is essentially the point of the post. It doesn’t quite come through in the title.
Author here - this kinda feels like a controversial take, because so much productivity advice seems to focus on blocking out distractions. I'm not sure that it is though? Every high-performer I've spoken to on our team and outside seems to work on similar principles. I think the key is balance - as with most things. Would love to hear your thoughts.
That’s how TS works too though - compilation just strips the types via babel etc, with type checking a separate process. You opt in file by file by switching .js to .ts
That sounds like a query planner… but it’s fundamentally not really what dynamodb is about. Query planners are amazing but the tradeoff is unpredictable performance - dependent on traffic, data size etc. Dynamodb offers “predictable performance at any scale” precisely because it doesn’t offer this sort of abstraction.
In New Zealand - most layoffs I’ve heard about have been US companies trimming offshore staff. At least one high profile local startup has laid people off though.
Speaking as a hiring manager it’s definitely been easier to find people since around mid 2022
The author isn’t claiming that micromanaging is good - it’s not. But I wholeheartedly agree that it’s better than being absent. Good leaders create great things by caring about the small details and taking responsibility for them. It’s a fine line between that and micromanagement, but I guess one mark of a great leader is that they’re able to tread it
We used to use pgtap extensively, but ended up removing it in favour of testing queries as part our regular nodejs application tests, via a db client - the ergomonics of the test tooling is far better, and I don't think we really lost anything.
Out of interest are you deploying exactly the same software to each instance? Or are there customisations?
My work deploys an instance per customer, and I haven’t encountered the same problem, but they number in the tens at this stage so not at the same scale yet.
Would love to hear any dos or don’ts you’ve picked up, being further ahead in terms of scale!
The idea of a grand coalition _seems_ odd, because I think we’re all accustomed to our major political parties fighting rather than cooperating, but if they can work together isn’t that a rejection of extremism on both sides and an embrace of centrism, which, perhaps, is what the German majority actually want? I know very little about German politics so I’m just asking the question here - but I’m genuinely curious, what’s the downside?
The current New Zealand government is the first in 26 years of MMP where a party gained a majority alone. The previous was made up of 3 very different minority parties. In every other election, the largest has sought the support of smaller parties to govern. I can’t speak for other countries, but MMP has not lead to instability here.