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What tools? Do you like it? Is it working for your use case? What is it? I explored few, like smolagents, but all seems very immature and full of bugs.

When I look at some like Mammoth Growth, I see they have lots of big clients. But what do they do? E.g. Dropbox as one of the clients. Doesn't they have engineering team that can build their data needs? Or what is the "data stack"? How does the whole process look like? Im genuinely curious.

I'd like to understand more how one would build/iterate over things like v0.dev. Is it LLM? Is it some fine tuned model? Or some other generative AI?

Are there some dev/eng blogs/papers around it, and similiar?

It's very interesting topic to me but essentially black box.

I enjoy having such stream running while Im working remotely, to learn a thing or two or see how other people code and what they discuss. What are your favorites?

Looking for inspiration on improvements, things to read and so :)

Let's say we have a site www.coolstore.com that accesses api.coolstore.com

What is the best practice and possible attack vectors when not sticking to them?

It seems that www.coolstore.com should be under https://www.coolstore.com. What about assets? Let's say we force a redirect to https:// on the site itself, but not on assets. e.g. you copy the request and change it to http you can access some javascript files. Would that be a problem?

How about API ? Is it neccesary that also api.coolstore.com requires https, even though it's only used by the website? Should it have http:// completely turned off?

Is there some manual of best practices with deploying react site + api ?

I have a limited time and need to quickly ramp up on these skills. I need hands-on experience as that's how I learn best. What would be your go-to resource/workshop for that?

Is there some standard "here are existing 10 services and in this guide we'll go through deploying them, securing them, installing service mesh, provisioning database..." kind of thing?

I am new to devops and we have multiple projects on GCP, with various kubernetes clusters.

What are the best practices to ensure I don't mess up? E.g. always have current project/cluster name in your prompt. What other things would you recommend?

I'm afraid of accidentally running something on wrong gcp project / cluster combination out of mistake which will inevitably happen, taking down prod or something.

There are obvious ones like quality sleep, excercise, get some sunlight during the day and check your hormnes. I still feel a too drowsy during the day.

Do you have any personal experiences / anecdotes with what have helped you in the past?

Do you think it's worth spending some time on practicing ML/kaggle/AI to broaden horizon (so not to specialize into data scientist) or is it something that is useful only if you go 100% all in ?

I'm looking at various options such as Surface, and Remarkable2 and their limitations. What would be your choice and why?

I've been coding since I was 11-12 years and I can remember the incredible amount of hours I was able to put in just because I was completely zoned out by the fascination of coding.

Now I'm 30 and I grew to be, at least according to market, capable (scala/backend) software engineer, but I no longer take any joy in coding. It's been around 12 years I've been coding professioanly (I had my first part time job at 15), and I can build a variety of interesting things.

My biggest problem is I can't find motivation and focus to do it. I don't enjoy work, and I'd like to WANT to build new things, just like when I was 12, but I just don't care anymore. I pretty much count down hours when I don't need to code (when does my job finish). When I finally manage to overcome exceptional effort and start coding something of my own, it's usually a lot of fun, and there are some sparkles of fun, but it never turns into fully fledged flame that I used to have.

And the next day it's the same again. For the most days I just can't overcome the lazyness to do something useful with my skills. I have balanced life, even considering corona, but overall I would just like to be fascinated by tech as I used to be, and toying with it would be something that I'd look forward to and take as a relaxation instead of something that saps the last pieces of energy that I have from work. I used to be like that, but last few years (5+) it's no more.

Any tips on how to perhpas change perspetcive, habits, or what to read, so I can enjoy the skillset that I had developed over the years rather than feel miserable?

Does anyone employ scaling your apps via stateful services via application level sharding (i.e. using Akka)?

Here are some claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVsKjZV-Ys

To me it seems it's much better to keep state in (sharded) DB rather than shard on your own in application level, but I'm happy to learn more. Do you know of any literature/blogs on this?

It seems ES has way more hype, but I'm not sure why. Solr seems to be just as good tech.