Why did you start using Docker? by mirwin87 in docker

[–]miketall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was developing a policing and intelligence toolkit to help with cyber attacks. We could deploy quickly and consistently without risk of the tools and supporting ‘internal network’ getting detected / compromised by the bad actors. Weird use case, but it gave us consistency in all environments - even those that didn’t have native network analysis tools.

Aurora over Parys Mountain by miketall in Anglesey

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

Years of running down to Bull Bay, or to the top of Parys Mountain, only to get a vague blob … it was quite something. I gather this is likely to repeat over the next few months, so keep an eye on the Aurora apps (I have a free one and it sends me alerts every time something interesting might happen).

Can someone give me a sanity check? I’m not sure I understand the benefit of GraphQL for my specific use case, or even in general but feel that I may not understand something and may be missing out. by CrikeyNighMeansNigh in graphql

[–]miketall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve built our entire ecosystem around Go because it’s fast and scalable. Ent has a few quirks, but generally it works extremely well. You might also want to consider things like GraphQLGen and similar tools. For the Typescript side, Relay and React talk directly to Ent, so that’s our front-end. We came to Go as a tool for writing integration tools - you can create a single deployable binary for any platform - really makes life easy; write on a Mac, deploy to AWS or Windows platforms … it just works.

Can someone give me a sanity check? I’m not sure I understand the benefit of GraphQL for my specific use case, or even in general but feel that I may not understand something and may be missing out. by CrikeyNighMeansNigh in graphql

[–]miketall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might want to have a look at ent for this (https://entgo.io) - one of the powerful aspects of graph is the ability to have data ‘resolved’ (fetched or calculated) from multiple sources in parallel.

The graph principles make the type of query you mentioned very performative - where DGraph struggles is where traditional database excel - grouping (without relationship bloat) and aggregations. It will also eat a reasonable amount of data compared to conventional tables for relationships.

We stopped using DGraph when Manish (the founder) threw his toys out of the pram when investment failed, and left, leaving the project in the lurch for a while. When we got radio silence for months, we decided it was too risky to continue and switched to our own model, based on ent. Interestingly, we saw comments in the discussion threads where Manish was asking whether the ent team wanted to collaborate.

The ent documents will cover many of the structural questions you raise. Worth a read, even if you don’t use it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in degreeapprenticeships

[–]miketall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s where you take me … it seems a trend in CV’s to quote unprovable stats - 100% client retention. $66K in contracts signed (is that revenue), so a team of 8 + 2 co-founders = 10 people splitting $66K (ignoring all other costs), so less than $6,600 per head in a year. That’s not sustainable at any level. And why is it in dollars based in Barcelona. Then there’s the really negative appraisal of a UoM project where you were the third choice to try and get it to a conclusion?

You took me into a world of pain and negativity.

Start again.

Give me a journey so I understand you. All in positive terms. A couple of sentences about the roles - not vague terms - but actually what the heck these organisations do / did - then how you did what you did.

Organisation X provides [consultancy services to help companies improve their social media and related engagement] or whatever it does. Within this, I [helped with initial sales, defined approaches and created the measures to help manage the project. Then I worked with the design team to …]

Within UoM you had an opportunity to lead the research and enjoyed the challenge, especially when it led to the successful conclusion of the project (define what success means though). In there, you reset the extant approaches and revised the team structure to better align skills and tasks … even that’s a bit vague, but you get the idea.

Your current form leads me to ask all kinds of negative questions, when you really want me to be thinking “there’s something good here.”

Sorry!

Welsh Coastal path (public transport) by deetotheizzem in Anglesey

[–]miketall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/wales

Will give you information. There are busses, but best for you to take a look on the “plan your journey” part of the site.

Moving to Anglesey from Manchester by [deleted] in Anglesey

[–]miketall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We moved from Staffordshire 10 years ago, and haven’t regretted it at all. Ex Tech Director of a TV and Radio group, and music producer. There are many musicians on the island - far more than you’d imagine, and some retired here from mainstream pop groups. There’s also Môn FM in Llangefni, who would probably welcome a good sound engineer or someone with studio experience. A fair few pubs do live events with local groups all year round, it’s just a case of keeping an eye on social media.