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Comment · 7 years ago
Flashbacks to CORBA.
Comment · 8 years ago
Dollar Shave Club | Los Angeles, CA or Remote (US only) | https://www.dollarshaveclub.com
Dollar Shave Club is looking for an experienced Go (Golang) engineer interested in Kubernetes, Docker and related infrastructure and security-related projects. Get paid to contribute to OSS and help us build our global e-commerce and fulfillment platform to help men be the best they can be.
Send resume to [email protected]
Comment · 8 years ago
Interesting! We built and use a service called Furan: https://github.com/dollarshaveclub/furan
That said, Furan isn't suitable for untrusted Dockerfiles (or multi-tenant environments) exactly due to the security implications of access to the Docker engine socket.
The issue I see with Kaniko is drift from upstream Moby/Docker syntax. One of the strengths with Furan is that you have the guarantee that the Docker build you perform locally is exactly what happens by the service. When you can't make this guarantee you get into weird situations where "the build works for me locally" but there's some issue when doing a remote build. That's also why we've resisted putting special build magic into Furan (like injecting metadata into the build context, for example).
Comment · 8 years ago
Option 2 is very similar to how signal handlers work in Go. When a signal is received, a value is written to a channel and the library user is responsible for reading values from the channel and responding appropriately.
Comment · 8 years ago
Dollar Shave Club | Infrastructure Engineer (Go/Golang SDE) | ONSITE, Full-time | Los Angeles, CA | https://www.dollarshaveclub.com
Want to work on Kubernetes, Docker, GRPC and related ecosystem full-time? Itching to contribute to open source on company time? Do you love distributed systems and solving difficult problems?
DSC is looking for a senior Infrastructure Engineer, experienced in Go and K8s to help us continue to build out systems supporting our international businesses.
We're generally pretty remote-friendly once onboarded, but you will need to be available to be in office when required, so full remote is not an option, unfortunately.
Send CV & GitHub username to [email protected]. Feel free to reach out with any questions about the role, I'm happy to discuss.
Comment · 8 years ago
Tests absolutely cost time, inversely proportionate to the raw ability of the programmer. A 95th percentile engineer can write cowboy code with zero tests that largely works. Enforcing tests could cause up to a 50% slowdown. It’s probably worth it in the long run, but for a time and cash strapped startup its a legitimate cost/benefit analysis.
Comment · 8 years ago
That's why they're the dominant player. Because even when a horrible defect is exposed people still desire the product over the competition.
Comment · 8 years ago
Imagine seriously believing that guaranteed lifetime employment, very generous pension and health benefits (unheard of in the private sector), a well-defined career ladder as well as a six figure salary somehow aren't enough. Out of the other side of your mouth claim that these people are public servants selflessly working for the good of all.
The reality is that the compensation package for government workers primarily appeals to those with average to mediocre ability and a strong aversion to risk (often also a tolerance for boring, repetitive work and/or bureaucratic infighting). When was the last time you met a bright, creative superstar working at your local DMV office?
That's why the US Digital Service is actually a pretty good idea. Tours of duty are preferable to lifetime career hires. I'd like to see much more of the federal government adopt that model.
Comment · 8 years ago
The very assertion that you must protect people from exposure to various ideas is deeply problematic and against everything the Enlightenment taught us.
Comment · 9 years ago
Google the phrase "forced technology transfer".
The basic strategy is to woo Western companies with extremely cheap labor and vague promises about access to the Chinese market, in order to get the companies to export most/all of their capital equipment and business expertise overseas. Then this is used as leverage to force them to adopt PRC-friendly policies (see Apple and government censorship in China, for example) and IP transfer to Chinese firms. Keep in mind that in China there is no objective judicial system as in the West to mediate disputes between the government and firms; once your assets are there you are at the mercy of the PRC.
It's really important to understand that this is a long-term geopolitical strategy by the PRC to supplant the US as the dominant global superpower, and a big part of it is siphoning off the industrial and manufacturing capacity of the west (see One Belt One Road Initiative).