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Comment · 1 year ago
Personally, I'm happy to see them evolving it with my juices left intact. When we transitioned benthos.dev to https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-connect we gained a much larger (and more competent) docs team, but as a consequence had to trim a lot of the old personality. I don't regret the transition but I do take a bit of comfort seeing the WarpStream peeps continue to have fun with it.

It's like shedding an almost intact full body skin and finding comfort in watching colleagues take it bowling, having a great time.

Comment · 2 years ago
Sure, if they change the MIT license of the core engine then you could fork it at that point. What they're doing right now is taking on a much larger maintainence burden than potentially necessary and fragmenting the ecosystem at the same time.

You're also at the same risk if you choose to use their fork.

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Comment · 4 years ago
Sorry to hear that, unfortunately you can't please everyone whilst also having fun, and my open source work is unapologetically fueled by fun.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for sharing, this is awesome to hear!
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Comment · 4 years ago
Hey! The visuals are all via https://reactflow.dev/, which has been pretty awesome to use.
Comment · 4 years ago
If I want to achieve something then I find the joy in pursuing it, at which point I will naturally do it when I'm capable and will do other things when I'm not.

Letting my attention float around freely (within limits obviously) often looks like I have a low attention span. However, with a birds eye view on what I'm able to get done I look like I'm hyper focused.

And if I can't find the joy in a long term pursuit then it's very unlikely to be worth my time.

Comment · 4 years ago
Hey everyone, this is a video I put together summarising a decades worth of stream processing delivery guarantee misconceptions and bugs that I've seen frequently.

I'm not trying to scare anyone away from stream processing, in fact a lot of the issues outlined also apply to automated batch processing systems as well. Personally, I think that being realistic and pragmatic about failure conditions makes these systems less intimidating.

Comment · 4 years ago
I hope one day https://www.benthos.dev will feature on one of these logo collages and I can finally retire to hobby watchmaking or something.
Comment · 5 years ago
Anecdotally I'd say professions that often double up as a hobby and don't have a significant material or energy cost to exercise will be more susceptible to burn out. If you're _really_ into software engineering and struggle to pace yourself then burn out will often stop you sooner than finger fatigue or your computing costs.

I'm not saying workplace pressure etc isn't a factor, but those are also similar factors in pretty much all careers.

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