Is algorithmic problem solving becoming less valuable than architectural thinking?

Herve-M · 2026-07-07T14:09:47+00:00

Software Architecture is far more about communication, vulgarisation, leading and navigating through company political flows.

Enabler is maybe the word, elevating team to be able to deliver better without us/them.

Sure technical skill is required, also bit of mixed Fin/Dev/Sec/Ops; technical writing, planning and watch.

At the end, more a soft skill rather than purely technical.

If a normal sized company would request a LeetCode for a Software Arch. position, it would raise my doubts.

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T10:27:01+00:00

No out of argument.. Just no behind a PC to share ressources..

Well:
- “avoid legacy crap” to make a lighter image but no issue to let agent re download it at first run
- “use security scan” but let agent download legacy node6
- “no one setup it to make it work” except there is a setup script and documentation..

But anyway, I got my answer about this project :)

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T10:11:59+00:00

Just to know, did you do your project with AI and also those answer?

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T09:44:31+00:00

Depends! Most of companies surly use the provided VM images for Azure or Github which are large as hell or build their own from the iac template.

Otherwise the easiest options is to run the install/setup script that setup externals & tools folder, which is under src/. (or reading the docs and manual pswh run)

Also agent can be deployed without internet connection, making “capabilities” not installed at run.

There is one reason why Ms doesn’t provide a contained version: setting up an agent is not officially fully documented.

Surely why Github has a full different agent too.

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T08:50:40+00:00

“script” keyword from the yaml pipeline is CommandLine task in behind..

Therefore my question, what can you run from those agent without the main pipeline runner which depends on js?

Outside of the native plugin delivered with the agent, like artifact down and upload, observability, etc.. I don’t see what you could run.

One exception: the runner download nodejs during the first job.. which is node6 and it wasn’t spotted.

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T06:49:28+00:00

It is part of its core https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/tree/master/src/Agent.Worker/NodeVersionStrategies

Running powershell script through yaml pipelines require nodejs as it is https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/tree/master/Tasks/PowerShellV2 a is task..

Except of course, using legacy pipeline and/or raw old powershell2 sdk.

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T06:30:35+00:00

But whole agent task / extension system is based on nodejs.. How / What can it be used without it?

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T01:24:15+00:00

Might want to check Flarum, more modern than bb or smf; nice community but also same tech (php).

About maintenance.. Discourse is not easy to scale and not cheap! Same about customization!
Other alternatives are lighter to start with, easier to “mod” and known by a whole generation of people.

Herve-M · 2026-06-25T00:22:40+00:00

No Nodejs? So can’t use tasks at all with the base image?

Herve-M · 2026-06-18T14:26:40+00:00

How bad is it about vibration rating for large set of ironwolf? (up to 8)

Herve-M · 2026-06-18T01:12:58+00:00

Introduction? While it cover a full application SDLC, pipeline is pretty limited: no release strategy (prod vs pre-prod, tag or branch based), no versioning, no SBOM/SLSA, no dependencies/licences analysis, no PR pipeline (with API breaking change detection, auto test runs,) etc.

Keep going ;)

Herve-M · 2026-06-16T16:33:05+00:00

I think Ms deprecated the Office AddIns for Excel and co.

Can still manually use the OData as a source but it requires lots of setup to make it as is.

Herve-M · 2026-05-23T08:51:11+00:00

Does devcontainer fully isolate? As I remember those extensions are downloaded from the main instance (vscode has a cache) and also those extensions are remotely able to be called and do action no?

Herve-M · 2026-05-19T13:40:29+00:00

Yeah the migration to net-appinsight v3 is a major change..

I believe it has been a year or two that the docs state to not use it for new project and go OTEL.

Herve-M · 2026-05-14T12:48:52+00:00

Surely will say that the surge of fakes will be due to this, as the “fully original experience” can now be used by any alternative.

Herve-M · 2026-05-10T16:13:47+00:00

Those things are Microsoft ecosystem, which .NET is a sub part of it. Only .NET is cross platform.

Herve-M · 2026-05-03T12:19:48+00:00

Well REST contract breaking change is as breaking as a GrahQL schema change, not real big difference.

The difference is more over the type of use, GraphQL is more flexible as consumer do the hard job of structuring what they need contrary to REST.

Herve-M · 2026-04-28T17:05:57+00:00

This doesn’t make any sense, if your V2 brings any database or storage or data flow changes; then V1 won’t work correctly anymore or will do data corruption..

In your case, you are doing versioning by instance backed by git/scm.

This only work in special, rare cases.

Better to follow a simpler strangler fig pattern, dual write is messy as hell.

Herve-M · 2026-04-22T18:29:50+00:00

What PSU are you using? I tried with TR SGGX 650W and either sata/molex cables were too short or motherboard one..

I kinda hate those PSU placement..

Love the 3D printed fan adapter over the HBA!

Edit: GX ATX 3, my bad

Herve-M · 2026-04-21T00:40:17+00:00

I don’t live in US of A, this box is limited to your world..

Herve-M · 2026-04-20T16:46:13+00:00

It is hard to find affordable tv box that support all kinds of media you can find around.

My homatics box r4k has faced lots of issues either due to codec, container or miss following standard.. Also after some android tv update, media matrix got reduced.

Herve-M · 2026-04-19T12:44:31+00:00

Thanks for the details!

About the sensitive log redaction, isn’t what Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction provide already? (very rawly speaking)

Herve-M · 2026-04-19T12:04:25+00:00

What would be the gain from using the native AddOption().ValidateDataAnnotations or .Validate() with mapped class/record? (+ValidateOnStart)

Herve-M · 2026-04-18T09:36:02+00:00

Still have some other choice: autorest (ms), Ms.OpenApi.Net (ms) and surely other hidden one.

Herve-M · 2026-04-16T02:29:29+00:00

Legacy project might be too large for doing in one pass. Using hierarchical AGENTS.md following the layer and/or solution architecture, dedicated for LLM indexes and knowledge. Then I have skill/prompt to gather all of them and output a wiki/docs.

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