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As a software engineer, what's the best skill to have for the next 5-10 years?
Original EnglishThe date-time one was triggered by having to drive an hour into the office, at 1am because of a bug in a deployment update...
Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)
Original English* We use edeliver to deploy the hot upgrades/releases from the CI container to the server container.
European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon
Original EnglishI have been using them for 5 years, but only last year my startup "boomed", so I had to cancel my old server and move …
The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks
Original EnglishPeople write apps this way now because it's faster, easier, and more flexible.
AWS costs every programmer should know (2019)
Original EnglishI have used kubernetes blue/green deployments in an old job and it was beautiful.
The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures
Original English(personal projects are another matter, but I don't get paid for those)
AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux
Original EnglishI use SwayWM with a bunch of bespoke configuration.
Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)
Original EnglishThat changed over time, and it was a painful migration because we had to build a lot along the way.
Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services
Original EnglishWe're not in the business of charging hackers and students $5.