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The nice thing in this case is that Django will meet you where you are with your preferences. Want to go the manual route? Sure. Want it to take a shot at auto-generation and then you customize? Very doable and. Want to let Django take the wheel fully the majority of the time? Sure.

Most countries don’t have a notion of a formally licensed software engineer, anyway. Arguing what is and is not engineering is not useful.

I’ve never been on a team that migrated to Aurora PG for raw query perf. It is slower than a bespoke setup that is optimized for raw latency, but Aurora is going to hold up under much higher traffic with much less fuss. It also has an excellent snapshot/restore facility.

Auto vacuuming is enabled now. We did have some near misses due to long running vacuums that barely completed before wraparounds, but got things tuned over time.

I did none of that work but was on the team where it happened.

Fedora Linux 37 4 years ago

I switched my personal laptop (Dell XPS 17) from Ubuntu to Fedora about a year ago and have been pleased. The GPU situation is more polished, suspend and resume works with less quirks, and I like the more recent versions of upstream software. I’ve also been feeling pessimistic about Ubuntu’s general direction and Snaps in particular.