Daniel Rice

Software Developer, Entrepreneur, Father, Husband, Catan Enthusiant, GA/ATL Native, & Proud Cat and Dog owner.

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@realJackJWyatt @fasc1nate I dare you to challenge him. Challege him!!!

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@adcock_brett People don’t hop jobs when they’re paid competitively and treated well. Maybe look at your compensation packages and rethink how you hire if retention is a problem.

[van cweef @malvvvada]

do you ever look at someone elses code and get so pissed off you need to go cool down?????

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

Alot of people say Atlanta is full but did you know the city of Tokyo is half the size of Atlanta and has x6 times the amount of people?

[space tintin @space_tintin]

So, let me get this straight. You just got out of college, and you think every system needs to be distributed? That's your big revelation? Let's think about that for a second. Distributed systems are complex, they're expensive, and they're a headache to maintain. You ever heard of KISS? 'Keep It Simple, Stupid.' That's Engineering 101.

You know what happens when you overengineer a solution? You end up with a mess of dependencies, network latency, and a nightmare of debugging. Ever heard of a single point of failure? Now imagine a dozen of them, scattered across different networks.

Oh, so every system needs to be distributed? What about a local bakery's inventory system? You think they need their doughnut count on five different servers Read Lamport's 'Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System', did we? Or perhaps Brewer's CAP Theorem? It's charming, but let's get real. Distributed systems are not a panacea.

First, think about consensus algorithms. Paxos, Raft, Zab - they're not trivial. You've got to manage leader election, log replication, and handle network partitions and failures gracefully. Ever tried debugging a split-brain scenario in a distributed database?

Then there's data consistency. Sure, eventual consistency sounds great in theory, but have you considered the implications for transactional data? Read Eric Brewer's papers on CAP and then tell me about the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance in a high-volume e-commerce application.

Ever heard of a monolith? It's not a dirty word. It's a viable architecture for a vast majority of applications.

Scaling is not just about handling more requests. It's about handling more complexity. So, before you scale out, scale up. Optimize your monolith. Profile your database queries. Cache your responses. These are your bread and butter.

Next you're going to tell me that every application needs to be on the cloud, right? You read Werner Vogels blog and think you need cross-region replication for all your services. That it's cheaper and more scalable? That you can just spin up a kubernetes cluster and scale your application to hundreds of millions of users overnight?

Did you know that Capital One misconfigured an S3 bucket and it led to a massive data breach? Over 100 million customers' data exposed. That's the dark side of cloud computing. Misconfiguration. It's not just about throwing data on the cloud and calling it a day. It's about understanding the nuances of cloud security. Capital One's breach wasn't due to some high-level hacking wizardry; it was a configuration error.

Maybe use your own brain for once.

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@debarghya_das I’m sure it works great on the first date too.

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@greg16676935420 Validate your inputs!

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@dhh South Park lampooned the absurdity of these types of one sided contracts #humancentipad. #youagreed

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@Dashcraft89 @repoles @aviflombaum @rails I’d love to know what you think the 15% is.

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@repoles @aviflombaum @rails This is easily achievable in two days with #RubyonRails.

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@dhh There’s a happy medium between here between “Ship It” and “Analysis Paralysis..”. I’ve consulted for a lot of organizations whose projects fail because they cant get to market fast enough. I’ve also worked with firms who ship prematurely. It’s a tough balancing act no doubt.

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@JenaGriswold Or any criminal act, for that matter.

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@GovofCO Agreed! I enjoyed a wonderful #powderday at Keystone today. The lifts are fast and my quads are now very sore!

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@gfodor @dhh Agreed. Tim Cook is an overrated accessories salesman and Apple has barely innovated on his watch. The Apple Card is a flop…

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I've recently rolled out #Ruby 3.3 on a large #rubyonrails monolith that's hosted on #heroku. So far, so good. Thanks @rubylangorg Core Team for all you do.

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@stevenharms @strzibnyj You have the wrong team if they can't iterate and write tests at the same time. Feel free to DM me or go to https://t.co/GNk1NsuJYO if you'd like to hire a better team (or me).

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@lucianghinda Exactly. Having a culture around this is ideal.

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@arkaflame @thoughtbot Preach.

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@GAFollowers Move to Paris if you want to take the metro everywhere. Atlanta will never be like this. Thankfully remote work is a real thing and can dramatically lower commuting, traffic, wasted time, and reduce emissions.