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1 Microservices = 1 Team
In a multivendor scenario, it could make sense to split a big monolith in say 2 or 3 components, but I have seen dozen of microservices (one of which just managed 3 read-only tables...).
But if your 6-guys team ends up deploying 6+ microservices, you are doomed, in my huble opinion.
https://gioorgi.com/2015/erlang-lesson1/
I transcribed and explained a bit more: it shows the power of an async language like Erlang/Elixir compared to other ones. Sadly, it is little used nowadays
Give it a try, it is very powerful
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But when you need to guarantee system will auto-restart, and healthchecks and so on, K8s is the de-facto standard.
Helm template language (based on Go) is not ideal, but it difficult to replace K8s nowadays with simpler systems.
Easy to setup and mantain, no issue in the last 2 years (finger crossed)
The 8BitGuy noted usually business computers have 80-columns, whereas "home" compueters 40-colums.
Neverless C/64 could run a small database for a 'VHS Store' without troubles (I made it in basic... :)
- XML parsers were quite bad in the old days (2000), even in java land.
- Parser speed is a functin of the input size. And XML inputs are quite big, too big in my humble opinion.
- you have tag attribute and tag value, and so people get confused on how to use them for simple scenario.
- & must be escaped but no one does it. So when 'AT&T' ended up in a stream created by "hand" by a COBOL procedure, the XML got suddenly broken
- < and > musty be escaped, and so your SQL queries must be escaped
JSON is simply an associative hierarchical maps. A Lot of 1995 PHP code used the same data structure and just works. No attribute, only hierachy recursive structure.
Recusion always wins.
Look at Squeak Smalltalk for further enhancements
Also GameBoy first CPU was 4bit based if I recall correctly
So 4bit CPU has something to say.
To avoid regret their launch, I enabled sudo to ask me a password, to avoid some sudo malicious command in the wild destroying my box or wiping my nas drives...who knows? :)
Now I prefer sellers who provide me pdf books.
For this reason I prefer to buy technical books from O'Reilly or Packt: they cost more of the same book on Amazon, but I get multiple unlocked formats, and I can print some pages if I need to.
It is okey for me to pay a bit more to get a future-proof format like a pdf one.
PDF seems the only format which is a bit more durable nowadays.
The 7-bit ASCII is probably the most "future proof" format we have: even a Commodore PET (1980) should be compatible with 7bit-ASCII as far as I know.
I am fighting Apple with Microsoft. I pay for 300GB iPhone Family backup, but I am moving all my other data on OneDrive+Office365.
It costs a bit more (50€/yearly) but at least I avoid lock-in on a single provider.
I have experienced issue while trying to download all my photos on my Mac: it seems iPhoto does not really download them until you try to open them, one by one.
It seems it try to avoid you own all your photos on a local drive/single iPhone (cfr "optimize storage" functionality on low-mem iPhones)!
"Snap is a magnificent idea with a still immature realization.[...] The overall user experience with Snaps on Ubuntu is frustrating: several apps won’t start when installed as snaps, others run weird, others take really long time to start. As an example: Telegram as snap takes around 51 sec to be operative, Telegram installed as binary starts in 1,5 sec."
see https://cialu.net/how-to-disable-and-remove-completely-snaps...
Also I was never happy with snap because unable to full control when software will be upgraded (and why). It was the main reason I stopped to use it, after Ubuntu20 make snap a default install complex to remove: https://gioorgi.com/2021/ubuntu-20-failed-me/
SQLite has stemming only for english out-of-the-box, but I find it quite a need for a good ES drop in replacement.
My two cents
As a Software Architect (the SRE mirror role :) I am following https://12factor.net/ and that guidelines simplified a lot my CI/CD pipelines. Helm + K8s is complex but you can easily enable to change some param and redeploy in a very fast and relable way.
And yes, docker outperform ansible on a lot of use-cases in my humble opinion.
But I miss a bit Ubuntu...
What I like about VSCode is that is slick and lean without plugins, and with remote support it is still "light"... And I was a huge Emacs, Emacs-org fan, so if I use VSCode because it gets the work done at the end of the day (TM)