Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Typescript, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, GraphQL, React, Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jplassala/
Email: jpablolassala [at] gmail.com
Full stack engineer with 11 years of experience in both startups and big companies.
I focus on quick releases while keeping quality and scalability in mind. That lets me to do quick iterations without losing performance.
I backup to Amazon Glacier S3 Deep Archive backed buckets. The price is only a little higher for a few TB than other providers, though egress fees in case of restore are a lot higher. That's a tradeoff I'm willing to make as I'd have two have two separate local NAS replicas corrupt or die before I need to rely on the Deep Archive.
For raw backup, I use GCP. Pricing is similar to AWS and the deep storage is easier to use.
For most regular people, I suggest Google Drive or OneDrive because you get the value add of the their ecosystem. With Google, Photos are good. With Microsoft, the Office+OneDrive subscription is a great value.
Even the most tyrannical, draconian, egotistical ruler has someone to answer to. And the people second and third in power MUST be happy with the regime, or else everything goes bust.
Also, I really, REALLY wish the devs don't surrender to user's pressure for the plethora of features offered by the commercial products, done ASAP.
Please maintain the tinkering, passion and devs-first codebase it has now, and don't end up as a huge mess just because users want things like VDPAU asap.
I don't mind waiting a few more years. For the "just works" part of my life, I already have chromium+Firefox
My take is that the book also works as a source of authority for aspiring SSR and SR devs.
Comments about code style are usually subjective, and, they can be easily dismissed as a personal preference, or, in the case of a Jr dev, as a lack of skill.
Until they bring up "The Uncle Bob book". Now, suddenly, a subjective opinion from a Jr dev looks like an educated advice sourced from solid knowledge. And other people now have a reason to listen up.
All of this is totally fabricated, of course. But it's like the concept of money. It's valid only because other people accept it as valid.
I usually tend to take people who add prefixes like senior to their function title, less seriously. I've seen young devs who write better code than so called senior devs.
I tell my friends all the time: You want your product to be accessible? Sell cheap, but not too cheap.
Fair deals attract people with some money, but the almost-free only attract people who are forever broke, who live their life feeling entitled to everything being handed over to them.
It even happens in the FOSS world. Open Source theorists tell us all the time that "free" only means "free-as-in-freedom". That we can share the code and sell the builds.
But whenever someone actually wants to charge users money for their own FOSS apps, even if it's only a few bucks to pay for hosting and _some_ of the work, outraged users quickly fork the project to offer free builds. And those forks never, ever contribute back to the project. All they do is `git pull && git merge && git push`.
Maybe the Google+Apple move was a strategy against piracy. Or maybe it was a move against the FOSS movement. And maybe the obsession with zero-dollars software was a mistake. Piracy advocates thought they were being revolutionaries, and in the end we ended up with an even worse world.
We need to get back to Native Software aka "Apps". As I have said before we have these powerful machines, with cheap storage. Why do I need to connect to a remote host through a bloated web interface just to read a document, it would be better, faster, and smaller locally.
When I was learning embedded design, the general rule of thumb was to aim for 10ms polling for user input, because human tolerance for delay is around 100ms so 10ms appears instantaneous. Then I see products like Nest come out, with big endcap displays at home improvement stores, and I'm like how do people not just immediately write this off as janky trash.
Then again maybe the extra lag (and jitter!) is gets a pass because its part of these products positioning themselves in the niche of "ask the controlling overlord if you may do something" rather than "dependable tool that is an extension of your own will".
It's not wild for people who choose to use a stable distribution that last released prior to smartmontools 7.4. It's exactly what they want and choose.
(Debian 12: 10 June 2023; smartmontools 7.4: 1 August 2023)
How do you think the US got its population?