john_the_writer

The only bit that I didn't agree with was the downsides. You can scale individual modules. You can set your load balancer to make all calls to specific endpoints go to specific servers. These can scale independently.

If you have background workers (ActiveJobs/Oban for example), these can be on different queues, that you can scale. It's actually really easy to build out a mono-repo system allow for scale.

If you organise your workers into folders based on their purpose (reporting, exporting, ... ), and you're careful about feature flags, you can drastically reduce git-conflicts and CICD issues.

Yeah.. I always remind myself of the netscape browser. A lesson in "if it's working to mess with it" My question is always the reverse. Why try it in Y new language. Is there some feature that Y provides that was missing in X? How often do those features come up.

Company I worked for decided to build out a new microservice in language Y. The whole company was writing in W and X, but they decided to write the new service in Y. When something goes wrong, or a bug needs fixing, 3 people in the company of over 100 devs know Y. Guess what management is doing.. Re-writing it in X.

Agreed. I rather dislike the idea of "safe" coding languages. Fighting with a memory leak in an elixir app, for the past week. I never viewed c or c++ as unsafe. Writing code is hard, always has been, always will be. It is never safe.

Yes.. that.. If you are against oil and plastics, walk your talk. If you are against rare earth, walk your talk. If you have a degree in chem-eng, and you're building low plastic solutions, and you're critical, then you're being honest. Saying "no no no" but doing it on a new cell phone you know was built on rare earth is like a vegan giving a talk while sitting on their new leather couch.

reminds me of the just stop oil protest that stopped the cooking oil truck. People who don't know enough, trying to stop what they don't understand.

If it's one thing the US gov has down, it's how to move super slow. No way it gets done in a 10 years.

Sounds like a right to repair argument. It will lose. Try putting linux on a windows-10 laptop. That BIOS is nailed down hard. It can be done but its a right PITA

They might not.. But you'd very likely have their number saved on your phone. Might even have them as an un-mutable contact. My wife/kids and their school are all on the "never mute" list.

This is awesome. Great job your bank..

I mean. I have a little book on my desk with password hints. "2nd grade best friends phone number", "birthday of first dog". It also has a grid of random numbers/letters on the front page, so I can write "first_crush_b4*5". You'd have to have physical access to the book, and know what the hint leads to. It's un-hackable. I mean aside from social, or physically breaking into my house.

My local medical clinic sent me an sms with a link, asking me to change my medical info. I called them to point out how they were training their patients to fall for sms scamms.

I've had a few calls where they are from legit places (I confirmed later) and they ask me verify my identify. I counter, that they need to verify who they are. They were confused and we couldn't go forward, because I wouldn't answer their questions until they answered my question.

Love this quote. An love the intent.

I don't know that they don't care about safety. They just don't agree with the definition others have picked. I remember when managed code became a thing. I being an old c++ dev noted that memory was always managed. It was managed by me.