We do this to ourselves first thing every day even though it’s been shown in studies that the start of the day is when you’re at your most productive.
We do this to ourselves first thing every day even though it’s been shown in studies that the start of the day is when you’re at your most productive.
Used to drag the zip file into the network drive, unpack it into the www folder (IIS restart triggered by a chance to the web.config file), and then used Beyond Compare to sync the changes across to the other server.
No one knows who they were or what they were doing. But their legacy remains .Hewn into the living rock… Of Stone enge.
You’d like to think that, but the last several years have proven beyond a doubt that they’re much more concerned that we’re sitting at our desks during set hours than any actual outcomes.
Management: we need to find ways to automate work using AI
Humans, conversely, are incredibly talented at deciphering nuance, except when they don’t want to.
What’s wrong with being racy?
It’d be super easy to replace Sam Altman with a bot that spits out keywords known to increase OpenAI shares.
Waitaminute… Sam alt-man?
Laughs in CORBA.
Even more often the monolith bits are pulled out but continue to share the same monolithic database. The horizontal scanning is void, because while you can make any number of stateless service instances their operations performance is mostly databound and the (relational) database cannot horizontally scale.
True, but the microservice concept was introduced to perform a kind of reverse-Conway Manoeuvre and make the architecture fit the team topology. Whether this has ever worked is still unclear to me, but I’ve seen it not work a few times now.
We only have ten logins a day, but what if UserBirthdayEmailer suddenly needs to go Web scale?
Oodgay Ucklay.
Latest Nvidia co-processor can perform 60 million curly brace instructions a second.
Israel and Azerbaijan should go join the Asiavision Song Contest.
And yet Russia is excluded.
The proliferation of libraries that exist only to fix the problems introduced by making everything an SPA is hilarious. Everything in web tech from the last decade is basically “there was an old lady who swallowed a fly”*.
*see also Cloud and container DevOps
How are you managing the state?
Oh, my sweet Summer child…