Our company still relies 100% on Azure and probably won’t switch anytime soon. Azure has now opened a partnership with an EU company to share code with them in case of a hostile government takeover (idea being that they could rebuild the cloud in the EU). This obviously purely symbolic and completely impractical measure was still enough for our company to cancel all plans to migrate away from Azure. It’s frustrating.

No, but I’d like to hear it if anyone else finds one

Some apps really go overboard, I tried out a bookmark collection app called Linkwarden some time ago and it needed 3 docker containers and 800MB RAM

Most RISCV boards don’t support BIOS/UEFI AFAIK

has enabled us to support massive global traffic with a single primary Azure PostgreSQL flexible server instance⁠(opens in a new window) and nearly 50 read replicas spread over multiple regions globally. This is the

I do wonder why they are using Azure PostgreSQL flexible instead of the Azure CosmosDB Postgres offering based on Citus

Akamai, Fastly, and the other big cloud providers each have their own solution. There don’t seem to be many large CDN’s in the EU, though

I looked through the data and less than 1% was looking for a same-sex partner

Only if you have free / cheap electricity

the OS maintains a pool of zeroed pages

TIL, I didn’t know that.

Doesn’t that make it slower because it needs to zero out all the bytes first?

Maybe FerretDB will work.

FerretDB allows you to use MongoDB drivers seamlessly with PostgreSQL as the database backend. Use all tools, drivers, UIs, and the same query language and stay open-source.

For GDPR compliance, absolutely

It shouldn’t be

That’s fucked up

I’ve used it before but couldn’t see the advantage over using JSONB with Postgres except change streams.

What are you referring to?

You start it and it scales right up

I really like how I can turn everything into immutable val’s and represent different paths as expressions, it can IMO really reduce the complexity of a function and makes it easier to spot bugs. I’ve been migrating some code of a FOSS app to Kotlin and was able to shrink most classes by like 30% while making it easier to read. The only thing I dislike about it is the additional syntax for various things, I could do without having multiple ways to write a constructor.

Also, like, fuck golang, it’s such a shit language and the compiler does very little to protect you

I never understood why people like it. It’s a “new” language, and it still doesn’t seem to get the basics right. No proper null handling, and don’t get me started on interface{}. It’s like they set out to build a better alternative to C++ while ignoring the other developments outside C/C++ for the past 15 years. The compiler is damn quick, though.

Don’t forget about the glare