If you need to run stateful applications take a look at Service Fabric. It has it quirks but we are running it in production and we are pretty happy with it so far.
I am struggling to find what an average person with a bit of excess money that goes into saving can do when we are faced with higher than normal inflation. I was a kid when hyperinflation happened to my country in Eastern Europe and it was devastating for my family. Hopefully something like this won't happen, but then what should we do if in the next few years we are hit with inflation at the ranges of 10% to 15%? Maybe I should just accept that it is out my control and focus on my work and personal development so I can find a job in any market condition.
The traditional advice is to buy assets, like investments, real estate, valuables, objects, things that require money to buy but hold their own value over time. I don't think we'll reach hyperinflation, there are supply chain issues that will be solved over time here. I do think that education and healthcare have been inflating for years, there's definitely some shadow-inflation that hasn't been measured fully.
same situation. My grandparents sold their farm in 1988 with a very nice house (for the era) and a year or two later, by the time they wanted to buy a flat in the city with that money it was barely enough for a used car.
Not necessarily! Pretty sure you don’t have to be accredited for this: https://www.acretrader.com/ (edit: yikes nvm that’s false for now, but they say they plan to open the platform to non-accredited investors)
The “Two-And-Done” Rule resonates so much with me. When I was younger I was very passionate to argue for things to go my way when I believed that I was right. This almost cost my first job and I got a serious warning from my manager. Now I explain why I disagree with something, lay out my arguments but eventually I commit to the group decision, made by the whole team. Even though many times things don't go my way, people often come to me to listen to my controversial opinions and often times I see that they take them in consideration, which is nice.
Interesting points but I would like to add my takeout at how I see Devops and how we use Devops engineers in our organization. My previous boss came up with the definition that most closely describes Devops for me and it is the following: Devops are set of practices that increase the team velocity. And in fact Devops engineers wear many hats. The team needs to get faster their code from developer workstations to production - a Devops engineer could help set up ci/cd pipeline. We need more quality checks and gates before releasing to production - a Devops engineer could help. We need the service to handle spikes in traffic, database backups and failover operations - a Devops engineer could help. We need our infrastructure to be scripted as code, automated, immutable and easy to replicate - a Devops engineer job. Developers have a hard time localizing an issue in production - again Devops engineer could help setting up better logging and monitoring. Also it is not a job in isolation. Devops engineers work closely with the team to transfer knowledge about the tools they built and also observe what is blocking the devs from doing their job in terms of tooling. It seems like asking a lot from a single person in that role but for small teams people often do various tasks by themselves. In bigger organizations people could specialize in different roles like release engineers and SRE but I do believe that there is always a need for someone to be in the Devops role to keep track of the bigger picture and bridge the gaps between devs and operations.
It's a bit ironic that devops were supposed to make the teams faster but in practice, teams end up troubleshooting why stuff is not working most of the time.
Any team I've been part of has a mile long list of technical problems they are trying to solve, caused by the complexity of the tech stack.
I think a lot of tech workers are not looking for the simplest way to do something. Because what's the fun in that.
Bulgaria here. I don't know if the comparison is even relevant as we don't have normal mobile data plans anymore. Most of the plans are providing 5-10 GB of data to all networks and websites and some GBs to specific websites like social media and popular ones. So for example I can have a data plan with 20 GB but after the first 10 GB I have fast internet just for facebook and whatsapp. The rest of the internet is almost not accessible as it takes ages to load.
I don't have experience with meditation so I can't comment on that but personally I have been though some very tough periods in my life, battling with depression and anxiety and what has helped me a lot during those periods is physical exercise and eating healthy food. Even better if I manage to join a group sport or activity. It is sometimes hard to find the motivation to do it, doesn't provide immediate gratification and relaxation but if I keep doing it is much more rewarding to my mental health compared to all other stuff I have tried.
We are currently working on IoT solution where we deploy many distributed computing units with leaf devices and SQLite works flawlessly to keep local state on the remote devices. There may be other solutions but this was a no-brainer for us and so far we haven't had any major issues with it.
Specific tests doesn't exactly mean "Simple" tests. It is hard to balance between the two but from my experience when people try want to write specific tests they just start writing extremely simple tests.
Another point I want to mention is that Japan was never invaded on its own territory by a foreign power and it wasn't ruled or politically influenced by outsiders for many centuries. This helps a lot to build and preserve a business.
On the contrary if you take the Balkans in Europe every few centuries the ruling power changed. First was the Roman Empire, then the Byzantine Empire, Bulgarian Empire, many other nations come to power for different periods, then the Ottomans, the Soviet Union and in the present day most of the companies and corporations in the Balkans are very proud if they have a history of 20-30 years (after the collapse of the Soviet Union)
The Second World War is certainly the most tumultuous time in Japanese history but it was still an era of relative stability when compared to civil wars, revolutions, and invasions in most parts of the world E.g. the monarchy prevails
2) He's right. Japan post-WW2 endured foreign occupation yes, but without significant internal turmoil. Other states that underwent massive change (e.g. Russia: WW1->Civil War->2 Revolutions) had significant internal turmoil. This helps explain why so many "old" businesses survived in Japan.
Sadly it always includes songs that I have already liked in every radio that I make and it forces me to listen the same song over and over again until I hate it. I would like radio to suggest music that I haven't liked already...
