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It may not be a good tool for communicating between services implemented in different languages. But i’d happily use it to save stuff to disk where database is overkill.

Thanks for the great write up! I’d watch this as a series or movie

Britain isn’t really poor as a country if we look at all the money/wealth in it. The distribution of the wealth is very one sided though. Recent decades of law making favouring the top few percent. Giving more to the wealthiest few doesn’t seem to trickle down apparently.. eroding middle class and diminishing purchasing power is what bothers me most. Privatised energy, water, public transport aren’t serving the public’s interest anymore but the shareholder’s. Housing prices getting out of reach of the average workers is rubbing salt on the wound. These are mostly symptoms.

You can live in London and never miss a car, but try it anywhere outside of big cities and it’ll be a different story. Not to mention the brutal train ticket prices.

“Forgot” to read the reviews before starting to watch.. no review can change my mind now: I like the show very much. Epic.

Log the things that require a human to fix something every time they happen (Include useful info that’s needed for fixing). Create metrics of the rest: things that show patterns. Trace a percentile of actions that span over multiple components.

I believe all the three: logging, metrics, tracing have their own uses, one can’t replace the other.

I get the convenience part but the waste reduction itself is already worth the switch. Yeah your shaving cartridge or flaking teflon pan might be a drop in the ocean (perhaps literally) but when there are billions of humans around we should think about what inconvenience does it worth to keep our environment lovable.

I had bad luck with the top spec 13" DELL XPS (2021) - Fan was loud, and audio jack randomly failed to detect headphones. Webcam was mediocre, audio quality was really really poor. It was ok for a machine that was only used for coding, but wasn't great for remote work / conferencing. Replaced with the M1 equipped 13" macbook which was about £400 cheaper (although also lower spec) and I'm very happy since. Despite the lower spec it does almost everything much faster. The only nuisance I had was a few Terraform providers not being released for ARM, and the occasional Docker woes with a few obscure images. The Macbook's overall quality and versatility beats the XPS by a good margin for my purposes.

“in LIFO order” - made my lunch break

I feel that the comparisons are quite one dimensional (crushes Rust, Go etc..) picking one or two metrics. Why is the memory footprint almost fully ignored in the article? Application speed is rarely the bottleneck in platforms I work with, but it does matter a lot how many instances you can run in a cluster where memory is often a limitation. For me personally it's also important how easy is to write concurrent code to work around IO bottlenecks.

Please don’t specify ISO8601 as the date format. That standard embodies dozens of formats. Use one specific format instead like RFC3339.

I would be interested to hear an expert opinion about whether such arrangement falls under 'unfair contract terms' descibed by the Office of Fair Trading: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Not sure if such regulation exists in the US, if so it would be worth to probe into it.

Or maybe, just maybe, it is way simpler.. How big is the temptation for a person just before retirement on a 'sinking ship' to stuff their pockets while possible?

I agree to me it seems like they're admitting that the ship is sinking. The CEO is over 60yo, unlikely to take on another gig after this. The simplest explanation is often the correct one, she's lost her way and needs a nice cushion before retirement. Greed is s very human thing.

Made me think what else besides masks.. e.g. does operating hairdryers affect virus survival on suspended airborne particles? Or the chemicals they use? (Hair spray etc..) I want to believe that masks are that effective.

Congratulations! Just got my hands on it recently so can't give too valuable feedback just yet. The contents promise to be a real good help with bootstrapping and scaling a product or an engineering project. A very broad spectrum of topics are reflected. It has a good balance of being hands-on and holistic at the same time. Pretty much at the first chapter though :) looking forward to read through the rest.