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I'm curious how various companies provide their devs with data to use for local development of their software. Particularly when the database spans hundreds of tables and GBs of data.

Do you get a sql dump? how often do you get updated dumps? Is the data anonymized at all? For really large databases do you trim the tables?

If you don't use database dumps, what method do you use to generate data to develop against locally?

As the title states. I'm curious how others have handled object level permissions in a system that consists of many services.

Particularly when the individual object permissions can be in the thousands.

Example:

Service A contains thousands of objects for which a user can have access to any number of. While Service B has meta data that relates to objects in Service A. If the user makes a direct request to Service B for a set of objects, how does Service B check if the user has permission to access metadata for the requested objects from Service A.

Like most developers, I love to build. Unfortunately, the majority of my career has been maintaining existing applications.

I'm curious how much others have spent building new software versus maintaining old.

There seems to be a broad range of different approaches to job postings. Some have salary info, some don't. Some describe their interview process, some don't.

If you had it your way, what info would every job posting include?

I've been creating video content lately and quickly realized how expensive video hosting ia due to bandwidth.

I'm curious why bandwidth is so expensive.

Also, do you think bandwidth costs are likely to rise or fall in the future?

Obviously learning to program is only one part of the equation when learning to become a Web Developer.

What are some skills, concepts, tools, etc that often seem neglected and should be learned by new/junior developers to help them in the early parts of their career?

Hey HN,

I'm looking to interview Remote Software Developers that work for Silicon Valley companies. I'd like to share your story with people that are interested pursuing this type of career.

Nothing formal. Just some written questions that you can answer and get back to me at your leisure. Also a chance to talk about anything you are working on and would like to plug.

If you're interested shoot me an email and I'll send you the interview questions: colin.morgan[at]fullbit.ca

Thanks.