ternaryJimbo

If you use CDK/Infra-as-code equivalent, what are your biggest pain points with it?

For example, I work in a big company with many teams responsible for small components. My team has an API contract with our mobile app team and sometimes the mobile app team decides to change something in the API request format without telling us. We use Jira tickets to communicate these requirements. Wondering if anyone else has had this experience, of this other team is just being lazy.

Hi, I'm working on an open source project where I'd like to incorporate ISP outage data. This service claims that it reports accurate ISP outage data, that is not crowdsourced like downdetector: https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/faq

Quote: "Q: Where does outage data come from?

A: ThousandEyes agents located across the Internet perform billions of measurements each day, yielding a massive data set that includes network interface and application server-level information on when and where network traffic is disrupted and applications are unavailable."

Anyone wager a guess on what websites they are scraping, and what measurements they are making to come up with this data?

Hi, I'm working on an open source project where I'd like to incorporate ISP outage data.

This service claims that it reports accurate ISP outage data, that is not crowdsourced like downdetector: https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/faq

Quote: "Q: Where does outage data come from?

A: ThousandEyes agents located across the Internet perform billions of measurements each day, yielding a massive data set that includes network interface and application server-level information on when and where network traffic is disrupted and applications are unavailable."

Anyone wager a guess on what websites they are scraping, and what measurements they are making to come up with this data?

Since the start of covid, I have been working remotely (as most) and I'd like to set myself up to organically find a cofounder soon. I don't have many close tech friends. Do you have any recommendations?

I thought the best way to do this would be to apply for a graduate CS program and go back to school, make some friends.

"Wait.. you're applying to grad school just to make friends to meet a potential cofounder? Why not just keep working in industry and make friends through that?"

Yes. Since I graduated from school and went straight to remote work (which most definitely is impossible to establish new genuine friendships with people through) I have no idea if staying in the working world is a genuine way to make friends and potential cofounders.

And What about the cofounder matching services? Is there any that you have tried that have worked out for you? Im very skeptical of these but open to hearing stories.

Thanks!

Hi there, I'm a software engineer at a big tech on the west coast. Due to the pandemic and remote work, We have been living in a small town in California, awesome cost of living, great house. With my employer calling me back to Seattle, I've decided to transfer teams.

I have the choice of one team, in a field I've always wanted to learn more about (health tech) but unfortunately is located in Seattle, and will require people to come back to the office for 3 days of the week.

I have another team that will actually support remote work, and the whole team will be working remotely. I’m interested in their product, definitely not as cool as the Seattle team but it wouldn’t bore me, and not having to move is a huge plus in time savings. I have some ideas for side projects that I’ve been wanting to work on but haven’t had the time to tackle yet.

The big question I have is, If my goal is to start a successful startup (not unicorn status but a product that people love), should I prioritize learning and growth on the technical side, by staying where I am, take a less ambitious remote team, and have more time to work on my side projects and grow as a builder? Or should I move to Seattle, since it would probably give me a better ability to develop relationships and network with the tech scene there, possibly finding a cofounder?

My technical skills I would say are not that great, I only have 1 year of experience as a developer, which is why I was leaning towards staying and focusing on projects. However, people talk all the time about how important networking is. Does living in an expensive place like Seattle really matter for networking as a dev, if 90% of your time is at work with the same coworkers anyway? I was thinking I could drive out to conferences occasionally to build out a similar network, but let me know what you think!