manish_gill

The sad answer is that everyone _left_ Amsterdam by choice - and allowed these tourism centric industries to grow. The money that it brought in was too good and eventually lead to the so called decline you seem to be complaining about.

As for property price rise - people have the same complaint against tech workers. So I guess I can no longer be a tourist and I can't work in tech because someone somewhere is definitely going to be angry that I make more money and the world isn't fair.

They still continue to get love from the developer community who "wants them to succeed". I'm puzzled as to why? Because of some blog posts?

The rest of Germany as you put it isn't any better. I've had people tell me Berlin is _shockingly better_ compared to $insert_name_here.

Source: Been living in Berlin since '19

Typically this can be achieved by either soaking the individual spices out in the heat, or a partial roast.

PS: sent you a message. Would love to get more info :D

I don't trust Dentists in Delhi, but thought the situation would be much better here in Berlin. Guess not.

So a bit more than `kubectl get pods -A` :)

I can assure you, nobody used any Graph database to achieve any of it.

And yeah, great idea re: jobs for Dutch companies. Will definitely check that out!

Here in the EU, either her career gap (due to covid + country change + taking time to upskill herself) gets in the way, or C-level German language does, and if nothing else, they're hiring Seniors.

If anyone is willing to hire a bright and hard-working beginner with an MBA in Finance, drop me an email at me [at] manishgill [dot] com

I’ve travelled all across Europe, and German trains aren’t what I would call “lousy”.

It's not magic, and you can understand what the _delta_log is doing fairly easily, but I can testify that the performance improvement over partitioning can be achieved.

I was given most advice that this article mentions - I took vacations, we had internal rotations to reduce stress, we tried hiring. Ultimately, none of these efforts came to fruition. I think there really is no counter to bad decisions from management. You can try to be as nice as possible at an individual level, but the "lack of progress" burnout will bite you if the pressure doesn't.

It's been more than 5 years but from what I remember, it definitely was _not_ the partitioning logic (the sharding just meant we had a huge amount of files that were hard to organise). But a single consumer doing heavy writes on a single SQLite file would see enough traffic that pretty soon you would start to see errors and your writes would start to break.

When I first came and saw it, it...did not sound right. But I didn't want to be the guy who comes in and says "you are doing it wrong" month 1. So I went along with it.

Of course, eventually problems started to pop up. I distinctly remember that the ingestion (happening via a lot of Kafka consumers) throughput was high enough that SQLite started to crumble and even saw WAL overruns, data loss etc. Fortunately, it wasn't "real" production yet.

I suggested we move to Postgres and was eventually able to convince everyone from engineers to leadership. We moved to a custom sharded Postgres (9.6 at the time). This was in 2016. I spoke to people at the place last month, and it's still humming along nicely.

This isn't to illustrate anything bad about SQLite, to be clear! I like it for what it does. Just to show at least 1 use case where it was a bad fit.

SQLite was a tempting first answer, but what solved it was Postgres, and we eventually offloaded a lot of aggregation tables to Clickhouse and turned the whole thing into a warehouse where the events got logged.

I wonder how this changes across different countries. I know in India, there's a lot of flexibility in negotiation/haggling prices.

But living in Germany, I always get the impression that things are fixed price and I typically don't bother negotiating. Unless it's the rare street market/Weihnachtsmarkt where they're willing to negotiate (and even there they usually don't).

I'm curious to know other countries experience if people can chime in.

I'll edit this with more links later, it's 3am in my TZ atm.

But the more I got to know Indians who were more privileged than I have been, the pattern started to clearly emerge. I distinctly remember thinking - "people who are better educated than I am tend to be richer or from an upper caste background, usually both".

I try to not let it get to me - I'm in a more "esoteric" position as I'm neither one of the privileged castes nor the downtrodden. My last name is still a dead giveaway to people who know. And I wonder how many opportunities I've missed because I've never been part of these subgroups (any subgroups really). I'm lucky enough that I have friends and a partner who recognise their historical privilege very well.

It's why diversity is important. I love working with my Dutch, Indian, German, Turkish, Chinese, American, Brazilian etc... colleagues. When I'm in a diverse group, those feelings tend to fade away - because I know there isn't a large group that I might need to be closely aligned with.

Of course, living in another country (not USA), the higher up I look at management, the less diversity I see. Same problem in a different form, I suppose. :)

All of the above is just an individual experience. But data seems to confirm it.