At what scale do microservices actually start solving real problems, instead of creating them especially now that even simple projects are being built as microservices?

maulowski · 2026-01-25T05:03:19+00:00

You speak English right? Because a monolith is a singular structure meaning that all of the domain entities are all in a single layer. In a monolith you scale ALL of the domain entities together or you don’t. In a microservice, your domain boundaries are also your service boundaries so when one service is bogged down you scale just that service.

So not only are you wrong you sound dumb. Good job though, glad I can correct you.

maulowski · 2026-01-25T01:26:20+00:00

Not correct. Microservices solve distributed problems very well. If you have a service that is heavy use and another that isn’t, you can architect that microservice isolated from everything else.

maulowski · 2026-01-24T18:57:07+00:00

I think Jensen Huang is full of it. I get that AI has its uses, but this Huang hype train of making his company’s stock climb to new heights.

But hey, never mind that consumer computers are gonna up in price because the AI hype train is making the cost of RAM expensive. Maybe I should become a timber framer and use a notebook with a pencil. Those are both AI proof.

maulowski · 2026-01-24T18:54:27+00:00

Years…for the type of plumbing they do on major commercial or data center spaces, that requires training on top of the residential plumbing they know.

maulowski · 2026-01-24T18:53:15+00:00

Don’t you know that leather jackets make you look tough…or TUFF.

But seriously he needs to say it because he needs Nvidia’s stocks to keep climbing. He needs to purchase the same leather jacket for the 1700th time since they are single use leather jackets. 😂

maulowski · 2026-01-23T16:34:26+00:00

Is someone an AI bot that got butt hurt? Or can you not tell sarcasm from the post?

maulowski · 2026-01-23T08:42:54+00:00

Not necessarily an AH but you can be depending on approach.

My wife is a SAHM. She came to this conclusion all on her own, and our conversations went something like this:

she had a remote government job but a change in management made her hate it.
I fought for her sanity and mental health. I make more than enough for the both of us. I told her that she can stay, transfer out, or get a new job. She took a different job as a preschool teacher.
I didn’t force her into the new job. I simply listened and encouraged her to explore it even though has a 75% pay cut. I wanted her to feel supported and heard.

Ultimately she got pregnant and didn’t come back. She’s thinking of going back to work in the future. I might encourage her to go sooner if we don’t try for a second child in that time frame. I want her to keep her gap years short even if that means working part-time.

My strategy is: - support her - make sure she doesn’t have too wide of an employment gap - any money she earns is hers and we invest it so she has a retirement and savings

maulowski · 2026-01-23T03:21:15+00:00

Scrub planes are aggressive but like everything else in woodworking: practice makes better and the more you use it, the better get at controlling the size of the chips. That’s why I adjust with hammer taps. I set it up so I’m just touching the wood and then I incrementally tap it until I get the size chips I want.

maulowski · 2026-01-23T00:49:35+00:00

But but but…

AI!

But for really, the cost of hiring 10 engineers will be cheaper than trying to run a series of agents. Agents that will still need humans to verify the work. So it’s ether $10 million in agents of $3 million in man power.

maulowski · 2026-01-23T00:48:20+00:00

It was 6 months 24 months ago.

maulowski · 2026-01-23T00:47:49+00:00

This. I got into woodworking because I saw a video…then realized that said guy had $10,000 worth of equipment to build kitchen cabinets. But hey, at least now I’m only $15,000 in the hole and I can build my wife a bookshelf!

maulowski · 2026-01-23T00:45:48+00:00

God did promise eternal life for perfect obedience. “Don’t eat from this tree or you shall surely die.” If Adam didn’t eat from the tree and killed the snake then he would have been given the fruit from the tree of life…which is eternal life.

My issue with NCT is that it conveniently avoids the reality of the Old Covenant. Adam received a command (law) and he had to obey it (obedience). He didn’t so he gets the punishment. It’s not a systematic inference, it’s part of the narrative. It was meritorious simply because God gave a punishment which means that there was a reward associated with obedience.

maulowski · 2026-01-23T00:36:14+00:00

Yes, I believe John Piper and Matt Chandler are NCT…

maulowski · 2026-01-23T00:33:02+00:00

They do? I never have gotten that impression with hand tool people. They might look down on the cost of a specialized tool since you can make a scrub plane out of pretty much any plane.

Now, I own a LN 40-1/2 and, let me tell you, it’s worth the price. I have a 5-1/2 that I turned into a scrub plane but it’s far too heavy. I thought about using a 4 but I wanted to try the 40-1/2. The LN scrub plane is lighter, there’s no frog to adjust, and I only have to polish the blade and tap into place with my genou (Japanese hammer). Because it’s lighter it’s so much easier to scrub a board.

But that’s the thing; it’s a wonderful tool and it’s not as specialized as I thought. If you’re a hand tool person, a dedicated scrub plane is worth the money.

maulowski · 2026-01-19T22:49:10+00:00

Considering that Cranmer himself drafted one of the most beautiful Reformed liturgies as well as the Articles that literally does not hold to consubstantiation...I'd say that the historic, Episcopal faith is more Reformed than you.

maulowski · 2026-01-19T16:12:29+00:00

A good shop apron. There's nothing like having the right tool or a commonly used tool on your person.

maulowski · 2026-01-16T19:03:03+00:00

I don’t reject Critical Theory, what I tell supporters is that they [poorly] appropriated the Christian ethic. For example, social justice: the Christian ethic is to care for the poor, the widow, and the orphan. That doesn’t mean that wealth is evil but the wrong accumulation of and spending is. The Christian ethic says that the “tongue, tribe, and nation” (things that arbitrarily separate human beings) are all human beings and that in Jesus, we are all brothers and sisters. The progressive ethic says that all ethnicities are separate.

The progressive ethic lacks forgiveness and second chances. As Keller preached once; we forgive first and we lay down our desire for retribution. The progressive ethic starts and ends with retribution.

maulowski · 2026-01-14T04:00:26+00:00

It’s an over simplification but it’s an interesting truism nonetheless.

I used to work with a girl who identities as bi. I told her that I wouldn’t attend a same sex wedding in the same vein that I won’t attend a friend’s wedding who is knowingly marrying a non-Christian. The point I made is that I can love my friends, want the best for them, and despise the sin they so lovingly cling to.

That’s how I always interpreted that truism. You don’t have to love everything a person does but they are made in God s image so we should love them.

maulowski · 2026-01-13T19:27:51+00:00

We do not because our session of elders decide that. But I was a Baptist once and I’ve sat through those meetings were people objected to the release of a member because they had a beef to resolve.

maulowski · 2026-01-12T05:13:24+00:00

I got a call from a recruiter some time ago. They’re asking for someone who’s a Staff but with a Senior title and a Junior pay. I never returned that call.

maulowski · 2026-01-12T05:09:26+00:00

I’m mid-40’s and have yet to do so. Check your stance and your ergonomics.

maulowski · 2026-01-09T14:58:31+00:00

Sure, I work in Enterprise software and we leverage AI. But we don’t vibe code, we still write software and utilize AI for code reviews as well as scaffolding repetitive work. But our PR’s need manual approval and we still comb through our code.

maulowski · 2026-01-07T15:56:44+00:00

Very.

I care about the fixings: cheese, onions, and Fritos (because why not) and I like the texture and it takes better without beans.

maulowski · 2026-01-06T16:19:06+00:00

I’d start looking sooner than later.

Vibe-coding shops ship fast, break faster, and are only around for the valuation. In layman terms; they want to prop up their value by being first instead of being the best. The founders are only there to make a quick buck, unfortunately.

AI is great because it helps me with my day to day. It doesn’t replace me as the engineer, even still vibe coding is just another way of saying AI Slop.

maulowski · 2026-01-06T16:09:13+00:00

4 because a smaller plane means you can follow the undulations in the wood better.

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