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Ah, makes sense. The victim was social engineered first.

I didn't quite understand this part. Attacked has access to Google accounts because Google had cloud-synced my codes? What does that mean?

This is really a wild take. Java's debugging support is one of the best out there.

And nowadays people are blatantly using AI to answer questions like this (https://www.finalroundai.com/coding-copilot). Even trying to stumble through design questions using AI

Do you want the government to decide that for you, or should the individual decide what they need/want for themselves?

Often, software bugs cause issues with machines (uncontrolled logging overwhelming disk space and killing everything, instead of objectstore absorbing it, or a memory bug that kills the process over a few days and needing manual or custom monitoring scripts instead of k8s handling this until its root caused, and so on)

I agree. My country was plundered for hundreds of years. And some now have the gall to say these invaders brought progress to a backward country. However, that is orthogonal to the point being discussed

This isn't even remotely true. Life is nothing like western countries in most parts of the world, authoritarian or not.There is a reason for such levels of immigration to western countries.

Exactly. I don't quite understand how people say you just need a box. It certainly is much higher performant than a cloud VM, but that is not the only thing there is to run a software well. It all adds up bit by bit. It surely seems to be the way to go at some scale (or no customers who care).

Okay. If the premise is "you don't have to worry about downtimes and only need to serve a few hundred thousand users and no data intensive use cases", then I guess you can do whatever and it'll still be okay.

we are on GCP. Logs Explorer on GCP is pretty good

.. who are okay with services going down here and there

I mentioned this in an earlier comment. It is dumb to be on the cloud at a large enough scale.

Maybe I'm dumb. I am not even taking about distributed systems here. I'm taking about basic high availability configuration. Two web servers, two (or three) db server instances for HA. I have had paying enterprise customers from day 1, and I don't want them screaming at me for systems going down.

And as soon as you have two of anything, all the above start mattering.

If none of this actually is an issue for you and your customers, I'll say your are very lucky.

I'll repeat what I said above. It's for availability (aka I don't want my customers screaming at me if the machine goes down). And no , scaling out was not our first solution, scaling up was. I have considered going bare metal so many times, but the number of things we need to build/manage by ourselves to function is too much right now.

Hopefully when we can afford to do it, we will.

HA is for availability. I don't want downtime for my enterprise customers. Are your customers okay with downtime? And as soon as you have more than one nodes, you need some kind of a load balancer in the front.

How does that work, then?

Probably not for $200/mo EC2, but AWS/GCP in general

* Centralized logging, log search, log based alerting

* Secrets manager

* Managed kubernetes

* Object store

* Managed load balancers

* Database HA

* Cache solutions

... Can I run all these by myself? Sure. But I'm not in this business. I just want to write software and run that.

And yes, I have needed most of this from day 1 for my startup.

For a personal toy project, or when you reach a certain scale, it may makes sense to go the other way. U

Putting java and python in the same bracket on performance because they are interpreted, completely ignores what JVM is and can do today.

This. There is also really no easy way of telling how an interviewer is thinking. One interviewer thought not having a warehouse in the design was a mistake, and the other one though having a caching solution made things too complex. It is completely a hit or miss with interviews

Please search for "food deserts"

150 people is less than 1.5% of their total number of employees (12,157 per google) . That is not a catastrophic overestimation.

There are some in trials. I'm part of one by Eli Lily. Lp(a) sucks, is genetic and so far there was no medication.

Calcium score is mostly for trends over a period of time, to get a sense of progression of disease. A single reading is not very useful is what I was told

Return of Java DTOs!

I meant for the SPA-like experience.

HTMX (and similar) solves a lot of this. It so happens that we end up building two apps one frontend and one backend with SPAs as built today. I'd rather build a lot of it on the server side, and add some dumb interactivity on the client (show/hide, collapse/expand, effects). There is still a place for SPA though.

Yes, I agree. extending that logic, democracy in general is closer to communism, than to oligarchy (extremes on either side, ignoring feudalism ), but its not communism. I simplify the "isms" with communism - socialism - democracy -capitalism - oligarchy , extremes at both ends generally not good to society at large.

This is chatgpt. Not my own benchmark. So it is probably hallucinating

I agree. was just following the parents pattern, to make it work for me :)