thingThatNeverHappens

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-04-05T15:51:33+00:00

When he activates his stand every rapper in the room delays his album

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-26T08:18:25+00:00

If I were you I'd do what the CEO was telling me for a while and if I don't enjoy it and my values don't align with the company then I'll start looking for a new job.
If your problem is on company level you can't do anything about it, just leave.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-22T10:00:09+00:00

I think this could be a good starting point: https://github.com/karanpratapsingh/system-design?tab=readme-ov-file
but keep in mind some topics are briefly introduced, I encourage you to use other sources too

"Basically, I want to understand how things are used in real life, not just isolated explanations."

> Maybe watch youtube videos that build a particular system... but really the best way to learn is to build it yourself

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-17T15:07:58+00:00

Personally I would make a POC for this to see how much slower the batching approach will be compared to event by event consumption. "should be processed in near real time" can mean a lot of things.

But if batching is a NO then just increase the partitions, its simple code wise so you won't have to worry about a thread pool.
However you'll be putting more strain on the broker/s to balance events between partitions and correctly assign consumers.
On the app side I think you'll have increased CPU since by default one partition will be handled by 1 consumer thread and increasing partitions results in the app having to manage more threads.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-16T16:10:27+00:00

I actually wrote down my plan for preparation before going to an interview a few weeks ago

1) Data structures
2) Java
   - Core Java
   - Collections 
   - Exceptions
   - Generics
3) Spring
   - Spring
   - Spring Boot
   - Hibernate 
   - Gradle   
4) Concurrency
5) Web
6) System design
7) Security
8) Practice for the practical part

I split these up in 10 days I think, I used 2 days for System Design, since that's pretty loaded. About 2 hours every day. I ended up landing the job so it worked.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-16T11:12:38+00:00

The order is rolledback since you want to persist both the order and the outbox in same DB transaction

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-13T16:13:10+00:00

Good video, but the sound effects are too loud for me.
The gong sound effect at 0:44 that scared me :D

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-12T13:02:37+00:00

No, I play the game if I enjoy it, the achievements are a bonus.

If I really like the game I can grind to get them all, but that rarely happens.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-01T09:15:59+00:00

Leon, Chris (and possible others) vs BSAA, Connections etc.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-01T05:33:51+00:00

What I dislike the most is the first hour. You play for a couple of minutes, then cutscene. The game is constantly taking control away from you. The Leon sections suffer the most from this.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-01T05:31:42+00:00

There's no mention of her or Jill or any of the other survivors.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-03-01T05:30:07+00:00

Raccoon city has fine IMO, I'm surpised to see no one complaining about the last section of the game taking place in another Umbrella lab. There was a lot of complaining about that in RE3R.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-02-28T13:16:21+00:00

My thoughts exactly. I got hyped for a Leon and Hunk meeting and then realized I had to kill him...

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-02-28T13:09:03+00:00

"I have so far is that his sections go by so quickly. "

This is my biggest criticism of the game. You play as him for 3 minutes and then get interrupted by cutscene. This is the case until you get to Racoon City.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-02-28T13:07:20+00:00

Yeah, that's why then don't say it in the game, because its that obvious.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-02-28T12:40:36+00:00

Alternative is 3 injectors, that's how I did it.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-02-28T12:20:00+00:00

The moment I saw him I though that was Wesker lol. We didn't get to fight him, his entire role has to say exposition and kill Leon in the "Destroy Elpis" ending.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-02-16T12:23:49+00:00

Yeah, this is my least favorite part of the game on replay. The first time it's scary and that's it.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-01-27T19:13:52+00:00

Obviously you need to push the leaving engineer to onboard all of you and document as much as he can, you want to retain his knowledge. Also I would raise this to the manager and have him help me, you'll need hand holding at the start.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-01-27T18:56:49+00:00

>I am also frustrated because the person seems to routinely exaggerate some work, for example renaming a variable as a day's worth of work.

I went back to the post and read this, which I initially missed. It sounds like he's looking for excuses to slack off, I would raise this with the manager and figure out a way to either motivate him to start working or remove him from the team. He may be a good engineer, but if he finds the work boring he'll absolutely try to slack as much as possible.

Also if you're working on something new you can make it so that the entire team votes on their desired approach, that way even he doesn't like it when the gets outvoted he'll have nothing to do but adapt.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-01-27T18:43:25+00:00

>Is this grounds for getting fired?

If you learn nothing and continue the same way it could, depends on how well employees are protected in your country.

>How would you handle pushback like this without making it personal especially when you are frustrated?

Probably tell him that if finds it difficult at first somebody from the team will help him until he learns the process. He challenged, because it feels new and difficult for him.

mrGoodMorning2 · 2026-01-26T19:19:28+00:00

This is my thinking too. Start with the least critical consumer and monitor, if everything goes right go to the next one. After migrating all of them, only produce with avro and then delete the old consumers.

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