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> This isn’t an article about how microservices architecture is somehow bad, it’s an article about how bad Segment’s engineering team is.

Wow. This is the level of discourse we've reached here now.

Why the ad hominem? If you have an actual point to make on technical merit, by all means, make it. Were you passed on in a job interview at Segment? Why the hostility? (honest question)

Go, the language being good is debateable. The tooling and ops story is great though

OP did use this disclaimer:

> competent governance

India is far from competent in this regard.

Uh: https://github.com/ipselon/structor/blob/master/src-client/a...

Sounds like you've got a business in hand

Sometimes the lockin feels good. We pay a lot, but get a fuckton of value from AWS because of the well-designed ecosystem of infra products.

This sums up Hacker News so beautifully. On a post related to the release of a new version of a piece of software for caching data would the topic of slavery come up.

Seriously, that sounds magical

What gives you the impression they aren't qualified? According to their marketing material at least, they specialize in making governments more effective and accountable. I'm actually glad that those concepts would be welcomed in the Trump Whitehouse.

Don't have near the breadth of services of an AWS.

This comes up every time Datomic is mentioned, but it's tremendously sad to see such a revolutionary technology lack any sizable adoption because of its licensing model.

Datomic packages up a CQRS + event-sourced architecture in a really nice way. You can stash graph/tree/relational/tabular/(insert shape here) data and query it out with the powerful Datalog language. You get time travel (versioning) for free. Etc, etc.

It's a crime that this hasn't taken off as one of the leading data stores; hopefully Cognitec has some sort of roadmap to an open source release.

Advanced type system, language level pattern matching, ML syntax, compiles to clean and readable JS in comparison to what is emitted by the Clojurescript compiler

Reason is an awesome project. It's still early, but I could even see this having the power to mainstream an ML (given the fact it's picking up steam in the enormous JS community)

It's syntax fixes pretty much every issue I ever had with OCaml as well (and feels pretty nice to write if you're coming from a JS background)

It's not a dialect of JavaScript, but rather a typed, compile to js language.

What's wrong with async/await?

:(

Name really needs to change.

This is probably the only automated email that I read start to finish (while consuming everything it links to.) It's been a pretty damn good time investment given how much it's "leveled me up."

I'm curious to hear what experiences you had with Datomic that led you to the conclusion that it wasn't production ready.

The SJW crowd started their predictable shrieking as soon as this was published.

Not sure how electing an openly racist, sexist, vengeful narcissist furthers that goal, but okay.

> In a move that could spread to other universities, about 80 information tech workers at UC San Francisco are facing layoffs and have begun training their replacements — lower-paid tech workers from an Indian outsourcing firm.

This should work out well...

>And I personally always fall back on: "this complexity is why I get paid more then most people".

This is pretty cringeworthy. If your tools are introducing enough incidental complexity that it needs to be reflected in your compensation, i'd argue your tools are failing your company badly.

You should be paid more to reflect a higher level of technical or domain expertise relative to other engineers, not to account for your ability to glue together a mish-mash of poorly documented and half-baked technologies.

What's the rationale behind forcing people to use an editor (especially a specific editor for a single language)?

How do you explain that to companies that follow the Google interviewing model?

> how many people are partially or heavily disgruntled at javascript

It's not actually the nightmare many make it out to be with ES6. I actually enjoy writing it quite a bit (I have mainly a functional background)

Thought this was a commentary on the poor API contracts exposed by data access objects

People still disable JS in 2016? I take it that 80%+ of the web is horribly broken for you guys.

I'd love to have an HN irl meetup sometime.

The idea has been around in the frontend community for years in the form of UI harness and hundreds of other react based projects like this one that do effectively the same thing.