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ResilientDB would practically sell itself!

Would be cool to have something like this for debugging outgoing container traffic in Kubernetes.

I got introduced to HTML through Neopets as well. I remember joining a Legend of Zelda guild. Another member and I decided to start our own guild. He showed me how to use an image tag so we hotlinked a bunch of sweet images and created a bunch of new accounts to boost our member count and that helped us organically get members. Good times!

On AWS, we bake our AMIs with packer and include the Ansible roles and playbooks.

We use CloudFormation to deploy, so in the instance metadata we have it run Ansible locally to bootstrap and return the exit status to cfn-signal.

We retrieve secrets via Parameter Store. For environment specific configs that are not secrets (ie passing in vars from CloudFormation), we have cloud-init write a json file that we include with our ansible-playbook command.

The command ends up looking something like:

ansible-playbook -v -i 'localhost,' -c local /some/path/playbook.yml --extra-vars '@/some/path/vars.json' && /opt/aws/bin/cfn-signal -e $? --stack ${AWS::StackName} --resource ${AsgName} --region ${AWS::Region}

Agreed, the logistics company IKEA uses - North American Logistics Group is the worst.

A table top got damaged so they had to get me a new one and they said I should call them to reschedule. It was impossible to reach anyone. Even talking to IKEA CS on the phone was clueless as to what to do.

I finally just sent a DM to IKEA customer service on Twitter and they got everything sorted out. So if you need help just message them on Twitter.

We're on AWS so we use SSM Parameter Store. Works nicely with KMS and IAM.

If you're in SF: https://bradfieldcs.com/

Perhaps you could instead pivot this idea. I think it would be more interesting if you could have the editor play back all the actions taken that led to the resulting commit.

Same, would love to hear someones thoughts on using this in production, especially compared to BLESS by Netflix (https://github.com/Netflix/bless).

Are you guys using rails w/ graphql-ruby? Would love to see a blog post with more details about the backend implementation!

That'd be pretty cool actually. I write quite a bit of Ansible, and having someone to talk to about Python could be really useful. I'm a ruby/js guy myself and have started writing react-primer-draft on github. Feel free to reach out via my email in my profile.

Because people can be very opinionated. You're obviously going to find very vocal people on the internet.

They may be pushing you toward a technology because that's where they found their happy path. Could also be a way for them to justify their own choices.

At the end of the day, just pick something and build it.

It's not really that SPA specific, if you want to just use React for the View, then Part 1 and Part 4 (to be written) is probably all you need to get started.

Collectively, all the parts of the primer, together should give you the tools you need if you want to build a SPA.

Ah sorry about, I was trying to highlight keywords but I might have been too liberal about it.

At the rate I am going, I am hoping by next week. But, the author of Alt has already written an amazing getting started guide: http://goatslacker.github.io/alt/guide/ - check it out!

As for a contrast between Alt/Reflux, I am hoping others using different Flux libraries will contribute and share their views, I will also link to some comparisons others have already done, such as: http://pixelhunter.me/post/110248593059/flux-solutions-compa.... But if I have time to, I'll give it a try!

For sure, I've added my email in my profile.

Author here, the primer is still in the draft phase but feel free to share your feedback / make pull requests!

I am also struggling with whether it is time for me to move or not. But I think your point about only learning from people better than you... that is a interesting perspective.

Like the OP, I think we consider ourselves to be at the "hyper-growth-learning phase", where we can really accelerate our potential by working with really talented people. But yeah, eventually you're going to be that "Senior Developer," and it'll be up to you to continue improving and helping others improve.

I've only been in the industry for 2 years as well.

Right now, I feel like I'm the only person on my team that is continually self-improving and trying out new things. It's always me bringing back new things and sharing with the team. Sometimes, I feel like I could benefit way more - like 2-3x - if I was on a team where everyone was self-improving and we could just all feed off that energy.

I have an extraordinary amount of autonomy. My year end review only consisted of, how I knocked everything out of the park and something along the lines of helping get into more of a leadership role.

Sometimes, I think - am I doing so well because everyone around me is just average?

Do I wait around to be promoted into leadership? I mean I've done fine self-learning and keeping myself up to date. But honestly, I think would hate to end up being in some sort of leadership position just because I've been with the company for a long time and have delivered consistent results, and then end up with mediocre tech skills.

Or do I say its time to part ways and focus on becoming a really good engineer and join a team that can continue to accelerate my skills?

For me, I am leaning toward the latter. When I feel I hit that "Senior Developer" phase, that's where I'll re-evaluate where I want to go next.

If you are interested in learning vim, there is also the handy vimtutor command.

Does such a thing like this exist for npm? Where it feels like things are updated, like daily.

I switched to webpack (the config is like ~100 loc) and it has replaced the need for a grunt or gulp file entirely.

You're more likely to find this at consulting shops. For example, in Chicago some names might be like: 8th Light, DevMynd, Hashrocket (also in Jacksonville). I think if you go to some meetups and talk to some people or see who the sponsors are, you'll be able to find what you're looking for.

I'm also using alt and enjoying it. I like that it sticks close to the FB implementation of Flux but there is less boilerplate along with utilities such as bootstrap, snapshot, etc.

Probably because of this:

So far, the arguments against it seem to have been "major numebr should go with a major new feature or breaking of compatibility", which just shows how little people know. We don't break compatibility, and we haven't done feature-based releases since basically forever.

I'm not sure I agree with the author. It's not like React for the web is going to go away, if anything this is lowering the barrier of entry for web developers to develop native mobile experiences for their web applications.

Personally, I think a bootcamp or hacker school is best for people looking to make a career change. You're still young, if you can afford college I would go to a school with a good tech reputation, make friends, have fun and code in your free time.

Wow this is very impressive, definitely will be looking into replacing DataTables with this.

Absolutely, that was a huge reason I decided to make the switch to Linux. Coming home and getting a stack of laptops from family and friends, becomes a hassle. I didn't come here to spend my day reinstalling Windows!

After I reformatted the machine, I just handed it over and didn't even mention that it was running Linux, just to see if there be any reaction like, "this is not Windows!" and the only question I was asked was "what is the password to unlock the screensaver".

It's a real drag having to go to like Dell to find and download all the drivers, and then download and install things like Java, Flash, etc.

Having a package manager is a huge win, I can write a ansible playbook to configure the machine and make sure the packages are always up to date with something like unattended-upgrades and then call it a day.

I'm just glad my parents don't use online banking, so I get some peace of mind there.

Recently I visited my dad and his laptop was just full of crapware. I noticed the only thing he uses is the web browser, maybe editing the occasional word doc. So I just wiped the machine, put on ElementaryOS and hopefully there will be less problems. Haven't heard any complaints so far.

There is also ToroDB: https://github.com/torodb/torodb, HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527013