In an era where developers are increasingly expected to handle operations tasks, this InfoWorld article discusses the growing discontent among developers and operations specialists. The 'You build it, you run it' model has led to overwhelming responsibilities and created bottlenecks due to different skill sets. The article...
I am often wondering if large webservices can run on old-school monolithic relational databases. It would be great because being able to simply model your applications data model as a set of SQL tables with strong constraints about data types and relations has huge benefits. But a single computer can only have that many cores...
Idea: Scrape all the posts from a subreddit as they're being made, and "archive" them on a lemmy instance, making it very clear it's being rehosted, and linking back to the original. It would probably have to be a "closed" lemmy instance specifically for this purpose. The tool would run for multiple subreddits, allowing Lemmy...
For context, Im used to working in MVC with .net core for webdev, which has everything all nicely contained within VS for better or worse. I believe Lemmy uses react.js and rust from a cursory glance, but im not quite sure what exactly is best. Im also curious what db software it would use...
I really like the part where she talks about randomly remembering things looking like magic. I'm 15 odd years into my career now and large part of my debugging approach is that same kind of "randomly remember something relevant" magic that I can't teach the junior engineers I work with.