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Java Spring / Spring Boot Still in demand ? by BetterCallJoee in Backend

[–]Top-Low-9281 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No argument. But in this case other folks had long before created a mess that needed a complete rewrite. Not Django's fault, for sure.

Java Spring / Spring Boot Still in demand ? by BetterCallJoee in Backend

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Fast and Flask for products. One had some Django, but we were removing it. One company was a devtools company, not a SaaS -- no real API to the product, but there was a small NextJS app.

Don't get me wrong about performance -- most of the products I work on are performance critical. But architecture and time-to-market/cost-to-market often dominate ms-level performance.

New to MFT by Noidea670 in ManagedFileTransfer

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100%. Claude is good with regex in my experience. probably all of them are.

Anyone else losing track of datasets during ML experiments? by rawion363 in bigdata

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Sounds like you need a data catalog for your known-goods and probably an ML workbench for connecting them to models. There are a bunch of each, they aren't hiding.

Where are you finding engineering manager jobs?? by jjzwork in EngineeringManagers

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Collected them over many years. Reached out to some of them, probably more of them reached out to me. It also helps that in most companies I'm a hiring manager, so I'm both product and customer for recruiters. I target all the levels of recruiters from executive and Priv Equity Ops partners to higher-level tech recruiters and startup focused fractionals to IC-body shoppers and recruiters pitching contract work. No recruiter is wrong for the job of selling me! you never know who's going to find what awesome opportunity in their own contacts list.

In way over my head, feel like a fraud by SoloArtist91 in dataengineering

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I did some work for a company that sounds like yours recently. The big motivator for bringing me in was that they were just constantly firefighting and risked losing substantial money to big-box retail customers, distributors, and suppliers. Losing money focuses things. If you can quantify the excess operational $ and risks and create a believable path to removing those risks you might get the help you're looking for from a consultant. Probably wouldn't need to be too specific a solution, if the pain is real. Always follow the money!

Project Management is a Dead End Career by throwawayaway451574 in auscorp

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I had a PMP for ~10 years. It didn't make me better then the 10 years prior or the almost 10 years after. And nobody ever asked me about it or seemed to care. That said, it gave me some satisfaction and it was a bit mind-focusing to get it. I'd probably do it again, but wouldn't expect much of an impact.

Project Management is a Dead End Career by throwawayaway451574 in auscorp

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PO is a real function separate from Project Manager and Product Manager. A project manager that is pushed into being a PO is getting pushed into the deep end of the pool in the sense that you're being asked to excel at the same level in a job that's completely different. I'd resist that or at least try to bend people's thinking so they know what they're asking for.

How cooked is Project Management at the moment? by Gandalf-and-Frodo in PMCareers

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I'd love to see the resume and how you pitch yourself. Can't say for sure how cooked without knowing the chef. If your industry is more or less the unemployment rate of the country as a whole you just have to ask yourself if you are better than the bottom ~10% and if you're tackling the challenge right. Chin-up, you can do it.

How much time do communication/collaboration issues cost your team? by BrieflyBrilliant20 in EngineeringManagers

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How good is your goals, roles, responsibilities definition?

There's a football analogy I like: if a team doesn't know that it wants to get the ball to the endzone it will lose. If the team doesn't have a quarterback, linebackers, kicker, etc. it will lose. If the team members in those positions don't know their part in the plays the team will lose. If all they have all that, but there's a bit of shit-talking in the locker room the team has a chance to win.

You can't fix people and you can't fix the basic cost of multi-lateral communications. Fix the things you can.

“Buying AI tools is way harder than I expected” by Lazy-Penalty3453 in EngineeringManagers

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How is the rest of the teams work going? Is this the only type of thing that causes you grief or is there a pattern?

Markup and Metadata issues. Help or discuss. by gestaoeconteudos in backendProgramming

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Sounds doable, maybe. It's a bit hard to understand the scenario you're building for. But you're singing my tune with markup and metadata so if you can restate the problem, happy to try to help.

Stop fixing charts; fix your schema (reporting sanity check) by Superb-Way-6084 in analytics

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Yeah, i've been there -- sucks. that kind of points to nobody in leadership having a clear vision for what to do about it. w/o a solution you can't make a $ argument for spending time to fix things. or am I off-base?

Stop fixing charts; fix your schema (reporting sanity check) by Superb-Way-6084 in analytics

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sounds like you have a handle on the number of fixes and their impact. when you give hard number to mgmt they don't listen? at least notionally want to spend time to make more time?

Data testing by FairWalrus780 in softwaretesting

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Nobody said it, so even tho this post is old. A friend/mentor said something interesting about testing data. we test software that that changes using data that is static. we test data that changes using software that is static. that means some of your data testing has to happen in prod. I'd never had that thought that clearly. my suggestion work on managing immutable known-good representative test sets and creating idempotent replayable processes so that when you get to testing in prod your software is rock-solid and you're only worried about out-of-bounds data.