C++ is… I got nothing.

Sure, if we didn’t have the need to procreate or the need for a life companion, the computer would be the perfect partner.

But since we are not machines quite yet…

People said it back then too. The ad and tracking industry will always invade more and more of our privacy. When will there be enough tracking to make them stop and be happy? Never. Never is the only answer.

File stabber is a good name. :)

People should be talking about void. Such bullshit. :p

Yeah it just works now. Sometimes I miss the days where we had to troubleshoot sound drivers, because it made us learn so much. Even if we didn’t manage to fix the problem, we learned about how sound works in Linux.

I agree with you, and that is a hellish environment to work in.

There must be a better middle ground for all of this.

Yeah I’ve seen it before. It’s a very good reminder for everyone to keep in mind isn’t it. :)

Yeah it’s insane. But of course if scaling different parts of the application, I guess micro services are the way to do it. But otherwise one could scale the entire app by just putting more of the entire app on servers. No need for micro services. It just needs to be written to be able to listen to message queues and you can have any number of app instances.

It’s absolutely slower. There is no way to make a network request faster than a function call. It’s slower by probably thousands of times.

Because they give them nice titles, and young devs want the status of the title. :)

I tried being a manager but I hated everything about it. The dishonesty, the politics, the useless meetings.

I’m back in a development role now and I’m super happy and excited to start the day. Almost no meetings!

Yeah I agree. With experience you know where to use it and where it really shines, and when not to use it because it will just make everything harder to reason about.

But a lot of devs are not that experienced when they make these decisions. All of us learn from mistakes, and those mistakes stay in the code base. :)

Yes but in practice, companies don’t want to replace their entire tech stacks, and specially if it’s a large company. It costs an enormous amount of money (because of the time and effort it takes) and means the entire company has to relearn how to work with that stack instead.

It’s not impossible and it can happen, but in my experience from working at probably 20 companies now, there is almost always a strong resistence to change.

People don’t even change their default search engine or browser most of the time.

I don’t think people have a choice. If you join a company where they use kubernetes, you have to use that technology for everything. You can’t escape the complexity even if you just want to make a simple program. It still needs to run in kubernetes.

Problem is that companies are using them for all scenarios. It’s often their entire tech stack now, with kubernetes.

It’s similar to the object oriented hype that came before it, where developers had to write all their programs in a way so they could be extended and prepared for any future changes.

Everything became complex and difficult to work with. And almost none of those programs were ever extended in any significant way where object oriented design made it easier. On the contrary, it made it far more difficult to understand the program since you had to know which method was called in which object due to polymorphism when you looked at the code. You had to jump around like crazy to see what code was actually running.

Now with kubernetes, it’s all about making the programs easier to scale and easier to develop for the developers, but it shifts the complexity to the infrastructure needed to support the networking requirements.

All these programs now need to talk over the network instead of simply communicating in the same process. And with that you have to think about failure scenarios, out of order communication, missing messages, separate databases and data storage for different services etc.

I worked in places like this and I’m not going back unless consulting prices go back up again… The pain is real.

Very happy im alive before AI turns all life into algorithms for profits.

Mint is a really good choice actually. Glad you didn’t pick Ubuntu. :)

We are using an AMI on aws for Ubuntu right now. We need to stick to Ubuntu also since our product is tested on that distribution and so on. What about hardened Ubuntus?

At my job we are looking to use a hardened ubuntu image but not sure what to pick. Got any recommendations?