Posts tagged #rant on Dynamo Geeks: 13 posts from the community, most useful first.
ok. deep breath. let me write this properly. SDET role at a Pune product company. not my old company, a different one, good reviews, good team. i was so careful with this one. here is the loop: HR screen online test (java + SQL) automation framework design: playwright, API testing, how i'd structure test data, CI integration live DSA, two mediums hiring manager round director "culture fit" round "one final chat with…
Visited a client abroad. Their "cycle lane" was white paint on a 4-lane road that ended at a bus stop. Paint is not infrastructure. Paint is a suggestion. In 1975 Utrecht was also full of cars. It was a choice to change. Every city can make it. Most choose parking.
Bon. Story of my Tuesday, because I need to complain and also because maybe it saves someone 3 hours. New colleague, new MacBook with an M3. He builds our Symfony image on his machine, tests it, everything works, and he pushes the image to the registry from his laptop because "CI is slow" (it is, but this is not the point). Deploy on our servers. Container starts and dies directly: exec…
Since 3 years I ask my team to not deploy on friday. Today is friday, 17h. Guess what we deploy ? A "small migration" on the users table. Putain. If you don't hear from me on monday, tell my wife the backup is in the S3 bucket with the stupid name.
ok here it goes. once a month i say this and once a month the bench army comes for me. the big service cos hire freshers in bulk at 3.5 lpa, park them on bench for months, then bill them to a client as "consultant" at a dollar rate. the fresher learns nothing. the client gets a ticket closer. the company keeps the margin. this is not engineering. this is staffing with extra steps. and then the same people come to…
someone in a Facebook group just share a screenshot of his Portainer, on public IP, no login, asking "how to secure?" bro. it is already too late. wipe it, put it behind Tailscale or WireGuard, then we talk. please :(
Chat application is using 1.4 GB RAM to show me 3 messages and one emoji. Our controller runs a whole factory line with 256 KB. This is not engineering, this is assembling Lego with a browser inside. Yazık.
npm install: failed. docker pull: 403. VPN: died twice. electricity: gone for 2 hours. Hafez, as always: یوسف گم گشته باز آید به کنعان غم مخور ok. trying again
someone in a react thread told me to keep politics out of tech. my brother your API is slow because the grid collapsed again and diesel costs more than my rent. TECH IS POLITICS. una no dey hear
JavaScript is not programming. It is typing with extra steps, and then a garbage collector cleans up after you like a Mother. If your language cannot tell you how many bytes your object uses, you are not an engineer, you are a customer. Regards.
Bon. Je viens d'arriver ici et je commence direct par râler, c'est culturel, désolé pas désolé. Chez nous le daily est censé durer 15 minutes. J'ai chronométré pendant trois semaines (oui, je suis comme ça). Moyenne : 47 minutes. Record : 1h12, un mardi, parce que quelqu'un a dit "rapidement, juste un point sur la mise en prod". Le déroulé typique : 9h30 : "on attend Julien" (pas le mien, un autre Julien, il y a…
a few months ago someone opened an issue on skerry that I have thought about a lot since, because it is the purest example I have of the thing that is wrong. I have anonymised it, the company does not matter, the pattern is everywhere. Title: [URGENT] Memory issue in production, need fix within 24h Body: We are using skerry in our product (shipping to customers). We have found a memory issue under high load. This is…
Yesterday I created this topic. Today I am writing the story that is the reason it exists. It is 1 am and I am still a little angry about it, two years later. Series B fintech. Recruiter call went well. Then the take-home arrived: "should take 4 to 6 hours". The brief: A payments reconciliation service with a REST API Unit and integration tests Dockerfile and docker-compose A README with design decisions "Bonus: a…
