nusmella

An old company I worked for used project management software with a check-in/out mechanism for making changes. When you "check out" a project it downloads a copy that you change locally, then "check in" uploads it back to the server. A project is "locked" while in the "checked out" state. We all felt it was an archaic mechanism in a word of live updating apps.

After 10 years of building SPA "web apps", that data synchronization mechanism feels ahead of its time.

Even the alpine nodejs images have pnpm and yarn nowadays

I can't wait until people find its limits... in production!

My Pixel 5 bricked recently after the latest android update.

Waited weeks to upgrade so that upgrade issues could be resolved by Google.

Lesson learned.

I don't know if this is normal or if anyone else does it but I usually either download binaries or compile from source and move the executable to /usr/local/bin/ and create a symlink. Lets me easily switch between versions. I avoid using a package manager for anything where I want control over the version and installation.

- curl -fSLJO $RELEASE

- tar xvf $DOWNLOAD.tar.gz && cd $DOWNLOAD`

- make .

- mv $EXECUTABLE /usr/local/bin/$EXECUTABLE-$VERSION`

- ln -s /usr/local/bin/$EXECUTABLE-$VERSION /usr/local/bin/$EXECUTABLE

- # chmod 750, chown root:$appuser, etc

Works great for everything I've tried thus far. Redis, HAproy, Prometheus exporters, and many more.

I mean that we switched from RDS Aurora Postgres to RDS regular Postgres

We have a 10TB database we switched from Aurora to Postgres and it cut out bill by 80%. However, there are some differences in our schema such as now using native partitions so it's hard to tell how much $ is due to the switch and how much due to our table and query design.

We have a similar story with DynamoDB too.

I don't understand the appeal of serverless.

it costs less

That's only true if you have low traffic in which case why not host from a $50/mo (at most) VPC? If a business can pay your salary then surely they can afford an extra $50/mo cloud costs.

you don't have to manage servers

However now you have to learn to write serverless functions that will execute in an environment fundamentally different from your local machine making it more difficult to develop. So you've reduced time spent in devops and increased time spent in development.

I wonder if these are the same systems that "detect fraud" and freeze my bank account requiring manual intervention to fix the 2 times a year I send a random family member less than $2,000