Sébastien Vercammen

I make computers do things. | Freelance Data Engineer

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

The movement of making things in the open and open startups (e.g. @levelsio) reminds me of opening up about anxiety and depression. It defeats the paralyzing, and wrong, beliefs that we're meant to keep quiet, not to "bug" others, or that we're not the ones meant to have success.

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

How to generate 100 ideas to write about in 30 minutes - even if you think you have nothing to say (THREAD):

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

@gregbglw @_StevenFan Everything is actual life. Even a playground-like trip. Can't escape it.

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

@lucidshapes @valor_zhang Popping by to say yes, ime this is common. >9y of freelancing, seen a lot of burnouts. Almost never been related to the individual coder (except the rare occasion when they just really personally hate coding and are forcing themselves).

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

@levelsio @stripe Of everyone who voted crypto, how often do they actually use crypto to pay for stuff (eg. in the last year)?

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

@richardfoote @techgirl1908 No.

She asked for other approaches.

For things beyond the moment where she'll need them, these will be useful.

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

@techgirl1908 With "cache client-side", I mean: when accessing the likes of a post, store the result for X seconds/minutes before calling the server again.

Bonus if you cache those query results server-side as well, on a cache server separate from your backend. Backend call on cache miss.

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

@techgirl1908 Store as a log (as you're already doing), partitioning, sharding, table w/ aggregated total results per post updated every X, unique post IDs that describe within the ID which server the likes are stored on (distribute/shuffle posts so server load is balanced), cache client-side.

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

"That's self-promotional, Seb"

Yeah, a little. That's OK. I'm being kinder to myself.

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

If you're a consistent employee that feels confident in their area and knows how to continuously deliver productive results, to the point of knowing what makes success...

...consider starting your own business on the side.

Knowledgeable employees are often severely underpaid.

[Sébastien Vercammen @sebvercammen]

"No one will care about what I do"

Yeah I feel that mood, but at the same time I've talked to 2x CEO's and 1x department leader of different companies this week, all of who expressed gratitude and whom I'm genuinely happy to know.

First time.

So y'know, be kinder to yourself.