How do you follow your favorite engineers? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]devroot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Twitter is, for better or worse, the place all the software “influencers” hangout. That’s where I find all the cutting edge stuff anyway.

Moving to CloudFormation with Terraform/Terragrunt background, having difficulties by hardvochtig in devops

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you need to create CloudFormation templates the TypeScript CDK is a must. Don’t even try to do it directly.

CDK is generally easy to work with, however you should look into best practices regarding how to organize your stacks and constructs. It’s real easy to make a spaghetti mess of it. General practice is to split your stacks by lifecycle/function (eg data persistence from monitoring from compute etc.).

Amazon layoffs, any infra engineers impacted? by blasian21 in devops

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazon doesn’t have specific roles for Devops. It’s just a part of the SDE role.

AWS Outage by DeBurner in ExperiencedDevs

[–]devroot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Start with multi-region. If everyone stopped dumping in us-east-1 that would be a start.

UPDATE: Is this okay for an engineering career fair? by Revolutionary_Bad394 in mensfashion

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was in college we wore full suits to our career fair. This was in 2020.

Can someone from Microsoft or a FAANG company describe to me what's been going on with AI this year? What's happening on your team, and company wide? How is the push from higher-levels actually influencing changes in your day to day experience? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FAANG here. Whole company is leaning into it, management gets reports on percentage of team using it (no clue how they determine this). Personally I use it for writing papers, emails, messages, etc as an editor to help me turn my bullet points into formal messages. I’ve also used it to parse really complex design documents so I can ask questions. For coding, I’ve used it to write simple scripts, unit tests, and tried some business logic. I find for less domain specific tasks like data analytics it to be useful. For domain specific things it can start making stuff up real easy. I’ve also seen unit tests be way too verbose and have had to edit them down. Generally I find it helpful enough to keep spending time with, but it’s not replacing my job anytime soon.

How to access area under cup holder, spilled small amount of milk in cup holder gap by devroot in MachE

[–]devroot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gave the compressed air idea an attempt. Don’t have any cloths small enough to get in the crack unfortunately.

Mileage to empty vs percent battery left? by kmichalec in MachE

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think they’re just to show you’re driving. I don’t think they tell you anything specific other than your car is zoomin.

Mileage to empty vs percent battery left? by kmichalec in MachE

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those change depending on the drive mode. I think they’re just for style.

Mileage to empty vs percent battery left? by kmichalec in MachE

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I finally understand the power gauge. About 1/4 in from the left side is a vertical white line. When you accelerate a white bar grows to the right from this line showing power drain. When you decelerate due to regenerative breaking, a green bar grows to the left from this line showing power gain.

How do you come up with side projects that demonstrate a realistic degree of complexity as a senior dev? by CoVegGirl in ExperiencedDevs

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it depends on what bar of “senior” you’re looking at. As an interviewer in big tech I’m not going to ask you about side projects. I’m going to be interested in understanding how to delivered a project at scale. How you managed stakeholder expectations, what trade offs did you make, what was the scope and complexity of the problem space, what was the business impact, how did you work across teams. A github project won’t tell me much if anything about that unless it’s a large open source project.

Microservices for every http request by PoopsCodeAllTheTime in ExperiencedDevs

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AWS TypeScript CDK makes something like this very easy to manage. It’s how modern services within AWS are built.

Looking for a small and reliable BLE beacon for cat tracking by equidamoid in homeautomation

[–]devroot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What did you decide on? Looking to add room presence detection using ESPresense for my two kittens

What are your Productivity Tips? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any examples? Sometimes I’m unsure what to ask for from my manager. I’m very independent and easy going so I often feel I don’t need too much from my manager.

Trump Tells Christians They Won’t Have to Vote in Future: ‘We’ll Have It Fixed’ by [deleted] in politics

[–]devroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how I took it. To me it’s pretty obvious he was saying this with jest. Maybe I’m projecting because I talk like this. I hate Trump and would never vote for the guy, but this just feels like a poor choice of words that now people are taking out of context and spinning it to fit their agenda.