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rudnevr··on Microservices are hard
Thinking through the inter-service interface is costlier and more transparent than calling the function in the same monolyth. That said, interfaces between services are inherently better than function calls.

Also, making mistake in microservice is more easily isolated, fixed and redeployed.

Other than that, microservices are business entities, rather than just tech entities. They can be scoped, evaluated and managed on business level. After all, you can ask another team rewrite the specific microservice. You can't do that with monolyth.

And the problem wouldn't be just buried in tech details and opinions.

rudnevr··on Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?
worked both in US and EU, same.
rudnevr··on Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?
In my perception, TypeScript was initially designed to bring more people from Java world to web programming, and it sort of spoiled them, encouraging bad practices and avoiding to learn proper JS. I think TS has never really leaved that niche.

True JS programmers are still living without TS, and TS programmers haven't evolved into some culture which could compete with them. That makes TS-based solutions inherently worse.

rudnevr··on Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court
you really should stop spreading misinformation
rudnevr··on John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Absolutely, and I wonder how people who are not professional in both IDEs can compare. Typically VSCode + plugins + some additional software from old time like BeyondCompare etc. poorly make up Intellij's core functionality.

I haven't seen a single person who seriously used both and went back.

Search, VCS, keymapping, defaults, heuristics, refactoring wide of use, AI-based autocompletion - there's simply no real adversary.

Last time I was blasted when copying an old DB to a one in a new DB it correctly guessed the renamed columns based partly on type and size, partly on column names.

Also I love its suggestions so much that when learning a new language I always look at Jetbrains' respective autosuggestions - simply because it makes me a better programmer, faster.

rudnevr··on Heresy
You're omitting the detail that Ron Pauls' channel was removed by error and reinstated, and James Woods' acct is ok too.
rudnevr··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
yes, you're Russia apologist.
rudnevr··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
You wrong on all accounts.

Putin has never had fair elections in the first place. He was appointed first and ran as an incumbent already. He never held a single public debate with any of his opponents. He never faced a single opposition TV channel. Shutting down TV was his first term agenda. He never faced a single popular opposition leader competition, because they've been always excluded from elections in the first place.

And no, Ukraine rates better than Russia in corruption. Not saying Ukraine is a true democracy, which means the power was passed to opposition multiple times.

rudnevr··on American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)
I backup the original claim.

I've been in several provincial schools in 1990s, good and bad, and we've always had strong anti-memorizing sentiment in math classes, despite in literature classes memorizing was mandatory.

Both make perfect sense.

Now I heard it's turning more to the Western model, though.

rudnevr··on The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
The major reason was the elections in the West Bank, which threatened to shake Fatah domination there, and a change in US policy (Biden expected to be softer on Arabs than Trump). The violence propaganda started on TikTok weeks before the conflict. The Hamas's goal once in several years to exercise power, get international intention and get more funds to live. That's how they do many years already.
rudnevr··on The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
"Israel is apartheid state" is a very old thesis which the left hoping to apply to Israel after their South Africa success. There's nothing in support of it in terms of law, though. It doesn't even work as libel anymore. Just a marker phrase for antisemitism.
rudnevr··on “AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”
From what I've seen in clinical collaborators in Life Sciences, they're usually driven by pretty selfish incentives - publications, conferences, money, a way to push someone's pet theory if they happen to have one. They have major jobs, with patients and hierarchical games aside from R&D, and rarely care about research progress as such. (And research is mostly low quality, with obscure clinical perspectives). They don't need to actively obstruct, but they have enough reasons not to care.
rudnevr··on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
Mail.ru Group, btw, is a nasty Russian trash internet holding with interests everywhere, including food delivery
rudnevr··on America has a drinking problem
This is both true and not.

Yes, overall diversity is smaller, it's all white and mostly Russian population, skewed to West, but also some very different minorities (and climate). Russian North and Caucasus are very different.

And two typical provincial towns in Russia can have more difference than two typical provincial towns in US. Both in population, demography, education, urbanization level.

rudnevr··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
yep, that's what they do. "whatabout Morales plane" all over Russian internet.
rudnevr··on Text editing hates you too (2019)
...and managers get their pride in it.
rudnevr··on CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries
From my observation in several countries and industries, software development is not the job like any other.

Simply becase software development sucks thinking and knowledge from the product/sales/manager silos.

To make things works you have to know much more than many managers do. Effectively you do the digging, the thinking, the analysis, the design - via tooling or via POCs directly, and SDE is the sink who gets everything that other folks didn't think or care.

It's not like Uber driver who drives you where you want. It's more like baby-sitter who also serves like a Virgil, a guide in the hell, and who takes all the risks.

rudnevr··on Monolith First (2015)
it's surprising to be _so_ disagree.

The value of microservices is to isolate risks and have some manageable entity to reason about, to have an understandable scope of lifecycle, test coverage and relations with other services. The larger the piece, the harder it is to do.

Splitting up is normally harder than building up, and often impossible to agree on. Any monolyth I worked on was coupled more than necessary because of regular developer dynamics to use all code available in classpath. I've never even saw a successful monolyth split - you just usually rewrite from scratch, lift-n-shifting pieces here and there.

rudnevr··on Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills
Absolutely. By the way, in most cases you don't have to bill it at all, because the actual cost is negligible.
rudnevr··on Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
Killings are definitely more common. It's difficult to attribute all the untimely deaths to FSB activities, but given they want exactly this, we probably should do the opposite.

Schekochikhin, Kara-Murza poisoning. Zhvaniya in Georgia. Yuschenko, Babchenko, Sheremet in Ukraine. Berezovsky, Perepelichny, Patarkatsishvili, Skripals, Litvinenko in UK. Tsepov, Manevitch in Putin's native Saint Petersbourg. Nemtsov, Politkovskaya, Navalny in Russia.

Also some bad guys, like Khattab, who was killed via poisoned letter.

By no means it's an exhaustive list.

Not Nosik, though. He was a well-known addict and kind of had it coming, so there's no commonly shared suspicion around this.

rudnevr··on Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet
maybe, because they've already banned linkedin, telegram, most opposition web-sites and have laws to proceed further?
rudnevr··on Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2007)
What's wrong with building weapons for the US department of defense?
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