wpeterson

If they’re optimizing full table scans of 20M+ rows, they probably want an optimized column oriented DB or a data warehousing option like Snowflake.

100% this. Only use containers for remote execution: CI, staging, production. Run native code locally. Manage dependencies and isolate project environments with NIX.

Ugh, what a loss for this community and the Ruby community.

This should be worthy of a Hacker News black banner today.

This resonates with my experience.

You can tell the author is mostly worn out not from long hours or challenging technical work, but from fighting against the overwhelming inertia that faces building/shipping anything. It’s exhausting.

This article is dangerous in romanticizing the “not invented here” culture at many big tech companies and seems rooted more in the 90s than present day.

The world of open source tooling and easily re-usable SAAS offerings means everyone has access to the best tools, whether you’re a small startup or a big company.

Anyone who longs for internal, corporate tooling baffles me when they can use things that actually have polish, user experience and likely better implementations under the hood.

Companies should spend their time/energy building things unique to their problem domain, not weak also-ran corporate tooling.

I spent two terrible years in Mountain View for a work opportunity I couldn't turn down and it was horrible. Our rent went up 20% during that time. It felt completely unsustainable, ecologically and financially to live there.

We moved back to Boston and have been overjoyed with fleeing the peninsula. I'd still love to visit north of San Francisco of south of Monterrey on vacation but they literally couldn't pay me enough to live there.

Hey buddy!

Reading all the design and discussion I was. Rey curious how you structured things at a brass tacks storage level.

This may be a confusing thing, I suspect Instacart may get volume discount from stores for bringing the extra business.

So this markup may be based on discounted cost instacart pays, not necessarily what YOU would pay at the store.

Still think it's a crazy premium, but I enjoy grocery shopping.