TobbenTM

Datadog is a monstrosity, they do so many things, most of which you don't know or don't care about, so which ones do you need?

We ended up going for HyperDX, just because I really favour fast log searches and simple alerts straight to Slack, but many of these Clickhouse-powered observability suites like Signoz, BetterStack, etc will do the job. Just depends how much you want to pay.

Also, I hope you're on OTEL already, since it makes changing providers the most easy task ever.

You don’t open up for CSRF attacks if you use same site cookies, which I guess is part of why this pattern is seeing more use now.

I think the main attack vector they are trying to protect against is XSS attacks. If a malicious actor manages to inject client side code, there’s nothing preventing them from exfiltrating tokens and gaining persistent user access. This because there is no Secure Enclave to store tokens in in browsers. The bff pattern can solve this by using HTTP only cookies, keeping all session tokens on the server. For high security scenarios like banks and health it makes sense, but there are so many more attack vectors that it’s not gonna cover it all.

It was serverless from the start, although there isn't a whole lot of serverless unique code in it, apart from some event handler bootstrapping to handle SQS triggered Lambdas. Everything else is just standard .Net that would look the same no matter where it's hosted. Huge fan of separating infrastructure concerns from the rest of the app to not lock yourself in so much.

Fully managed so I can spend my time on actually building features. In my case, AWS is my go to cloud, and even with a couple of thousand users, Lambda for compute, DynamoDB for database and SNS+SQS for eventing is costing me less than 5€ per month. Yes, there are risks with serverless if you get DDOSed or whatever, but it’s a risk I’m fine with, and can mitigate with gateways in front if necessary. And Lambdas are not locking me in to AWS since I’m running “full” ASP.Net apps in them, so hosting them on actual compute platforms is an easy switch.

  Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Remote: Prefer on-site, but open to remote
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#/.Net, JS/TS, Vue.js, React.js, AWS, Terraform, +++
  Résumé/CV: On request
  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tobbentm
  Github: https://github.com/TobbenTM
  Email: [email protected]

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Generalist engineer, with solid experience building stable systems, doing actual fullstack work from infra to frontend. Sharing a lot of knowledge as I go, making sure to upskill the team around me. Open to new opportunities in the near future.

Purely speculative, but I suspect quite a number of vr players have gotten used to the floating movements. Some vr games are just vastly better using floating movements, especially FPS games. Look at Pavlov VR for example, it's honestly the best movement I've ever used in VR, but it requires the player to overcome the motion sickness introduced by the floating movement. And if players are getting used to it, I'm guessing new games have an easier time utilizing that?

Rider is pretty good as an IDE, and .Net works on both M1/2 ARM as well as X64 macOS.