I hinted at this a few weeks back, but we have been BUSY. Here is the holiday season changelog.
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Cory O’Daniel
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Founder , W22
Cloud Solutions Archaeologist
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There is an OSS maintainer joke in here somewhere.
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क़िस्मत महलों में राज करती है,
हुनर सड़कों पर तमाशा करता है।
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Me when I:
children = [
{Phoenix.PubSub,
adapter: Phoenix.PubSub.Redis,
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Nestle crunch are better than any of that $9 bullshit at Whole Foods.
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There are plenty of reasons to break a monolith into _smaller_ services (probably not micro).
the most important question in determining is :
if _x_ part of the app is down will it annoy people or piss them off?
The latter is a reason to break a service off.
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Having a “micro” service oriented mindset when working on a monolith (and database design!) will make it easier to navigate, separate when necessary, and probably more efficient.
I’ll eventually write a blog post on Microservice oriented monolith design, you’ll probably hate it.
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If you do DDD well your domain can be beautiful and the code inside can be total dog shit.
This is the biggest benefit of DDD.
Code is easy to change, contracts and business function are not.
Also, spend 4 hours and read a DDD book / blog / watch a YouTube video.
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I’ll take a boot camp grad after a (long) career change over a comp sci grad any day of the week.
That’s not to say a compsci degree has no value. The drive to change careers and the experience from outside software is just more valuable when building a business
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In an age when ever company is a software company we need more PROFESSIONal developers, less hobbyists.
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I would say “DevOps is bullshit” (because it is), but I had a lot more positive than negative feedback from the article.
If you’re doing it outside of PE, are you _really_ adding business value or are you fucking around?
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You could have probably just used Postgres. Congrats on whatever other bullshit you picked.
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Background workers in your monolith is a lazy debt ridden choice. Go with some sort of managed queue even if your app is consuming it’s own events.
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You write better software without pants on.
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TDD makes you a better engineer. Not smarter, not hackerman cooler.
More confident, faster, and a better citizen to your coworkers.
Fun fact: is 6 domains, ~600 PRs, few 100k LOC, 1.5 yrs old. I’ve only run ‘mix test’ locally. Never started the thing in dev mode.
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Holiday “code freezes” are a sign of weakness in your engineering org. Spend this year getting your shit together.
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If you’re running in VMs, you should still package your app in a container image (even if you strip it back to a VM) for parity across dev & ci
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What are your _actually_ controversial software engineering opinions?
None of the mundane tropes. I want the good stuff that gets you an unfollow or two.
I’ll start, one of these is a joke, but knowing me … can you spot which???
Happy to elaborate 🧵|>
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NEW MARKET MAP: We are entering an unemployment era for tech workers. Companies need to do more with less, and we expect to see companies that fit into No/Low-Code will see a spike in growth because of this:
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Well natural gas prices aren’t fucking around now are they? I better ditch this elitist stove before I go bankrupt.
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Surprised at the lack of use of Cloud Native Buildpacks.
Are you not a fan or didn't know you could build containers with them?
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How do you define your container images?
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How do you define your container images?
- Dockerfile92%
- Buildpack0%
- Other (
in comments)8%
25 votesFinal results
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What’s your preferred way of running apps in the cloud?
- VMs13.8%
- Serverless12.5%
- Containers65%
- Serverless Containers8.8%
80 votesFinal results
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If you thought that `mix test` output tweet was nice, you're gonna love our credo (and its with req'd defp specs because who doesn't love types?)
#myelixirstatus
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But "hey your module is use case specific and doesn't do X in the bespoke way we do it"...
Great, its a module. Fork it. Its fancy config not 10 years of PhD research.
1000 companies shouldn't be sharing the same config.
Creates a 185 input mess.
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I really wish more Terraform modules would encapsulate expertise rather than express their inner resource inputs in perverse ways.
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Fun fact: I won the gold medal 🥇 in the 2017 Winter Terraform Olympics for gynmastics.
Exposing combinations of terraform variables that can lead to configuration errors sucks, so I absolute bend over backwards to auto-generate good configs.
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I realize that the first sentence sounds like that weird scene from Being John Malkovich.
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Not only do we use to run massdriver. We use massdriver to test massdriver.
Left, you can actually see the instances spinning up in the md UI to be tested.
Right, you can see Jeff Bezo$ hit our margins.
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Whether our journey is an adventure, a roller coaster, or the repetitive grind, the Massdriver team is super excited about the opportunity to work with Microsoft & Azure to make that journey simpler for makers.
🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
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This is the next phase of our journey, back to where we started: focusing on getting good content out to the community and contributing to open source to make infrastructure easier.
Sometimes the journey is a 100ft oval go-kart track.
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I had never heard the phrase before.
You don't know what ya don't know. Know what I mean, Vern?
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Do you know the answer? We had a little bit of product-led growth in that video.
Instead of telling people what they should buy, people stumbled across something they needed.
We got 3 months of "no's" before a friend asked, "Why aren't you doing product-led growth?"
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We were baffled about this. I made a stupid little video, and people bought the product. Why wouldn't they buy it when I showed up at their Zoom?
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Cory O'Daniel, enterprise software salesman. I sold steak knives door-to-door in college, so this would be easy.
Seriously, who lets someone into their house they don't know that is holding a friggin bag of knives?
The no's started coming in.
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Now we could focus on all those enterprise sales calls!
We went out and cold-called everyone under the sun.
120 VCs just told me I was an idiot (in a nice way) … what's a few hundred no's from LinkedIn?!
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That was the ticket.
Within 6 months, we went from 120 VCs telling us "no" to a $4m seed right on the cusp of "the recession."
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I had to pitch people that did operations work before.
I used the YC investor database to filter by the most founder friendly.
I made a list of the partners and then went through LinkedIn to see their career history.
I wanted real operators.
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The critical change in my approach was simple.
We are building a thing that doesn't really exist.
Massdriver is a dev tool that sits in between the vast expanse between a PaaS and the Cloud.
I couldn't pitch investors that want the 7000th frigging logging platform.
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In the meantime, I restarted my VC pitch-a-palooza.
This time it was easier, we had customers, and the product was usable!
🥳 🎉
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