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lol holy shit:
https://twitter.com/yuarecold/status/1679286658460700672
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I don't understand what he was doing, he used google docs to store his json data?
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Instead of having a database for the app they had a team of operations people (maybe non technical) who managed the driver incentives program to manually write JSON and insert it into a Google doc as the collaborative single-source-of-truth, then this dev would manually copy the JSON to the production app which used it to deliver the incentives. The doc was probably massive if it was $30M.
As opposed to making a single HTML form which submits to a DB
That’s putting a ton of trust on the ops team and this dev to not frick things up and it’s very slow and fragile
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even college students don't do that, i wonder what made them do it that way
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They likely used a microservice architecture and some backend dev made the small isolated service in Go or Python which ran the code to pay out incentives but they didn’t want to / couldn’t easily build out an internal web interface so they just used a static JSON file as the DB
There was probably some frickery with how they ran services (probably a massive system) where networking a new web UI was a headache or was a TODO and no one got around to doing it
The dude talked about how Uber valued speed over quality, which can come back to bite you when you build a house of fragile cards
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The worst I think we did in the startup I previously worked is setup the school management application (which was a huge .net4x application with multi tenant db) on an office system in a VM and exposed the port to the internet. we were using the same internet everyone else was using in the office so we were asked to not download stuff and browse too much durisng school hours so that the clients can have enough bandwidth and if i recall correctly it was 10mbit dsl leased line
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I always wondered how university software solutions seemed to be so consistently broken, this explains a lot
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I hate new Twitter, I can't see any replies, only the embedded tweet
No, I will not make an account
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turn on nitter in your profile settings
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Thanks neighbor
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Same. I've also turned on "poor mode" permanently. User experience is so much better.
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Is that working again? I turned it off abut a week ago because the instance was fricked.
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yeah it mostly works now
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I wanna believe it's real that they were running on wifi.
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Lol we had a couple of those in the datacenter I used to work at.
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This is kinda the fun of a startup though. Just do whatever to make it work. It's terrible for down the line but hopefully you're gone by then.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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This type of thing is something only incompetent people do.
There's really no excuse for not running it on an actual server. It's not like Uber doesn't own any.
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yeah but it's fun and you can drink and laugh about it. $30 million on that shizzzz
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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$30 million isn't a laughing matter
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30m of someone else's money very much is
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This is why nobody sane will ever trust you with $30 million
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Too late
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It is if you aren't a poor.
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I mean if you're at a startup that might run out of money and go bust next quarter, tech debt is the least of your worries
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keep yourself safe
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"deploy it on a server" is definitely something a competent software engineer is capable of
it's probably literally no more difficult than whatever tf this is except it's also not r-slurred
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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2 people in my room laughed at this gg
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