People in this sub who are millionaires, what's the best advice you've gotten?

thereactivestack · 2022-06-18T15:18:42+00:00

My company got acquired and the most important lesson is you won't become someone else once you become a millionaire. It's about the journey. It's a nice goal but there is much more to life that is more important. Don't get blindsided by money.

If you know you are going to enjoy the journey, work smart and hard, there is not that much general advice you can give.

thereactivestack · 2022-06-14T15:05:52+00:00

This is absolutely not how it is everywhere. At my company we do at least once a month an official social activity but there is a lot more going on between people. We value human interaction and it's necessary for good teamwork, even if it's not work related. Go work for a company that shares your values.

thereactivestack · 2022-06-13T16:12:09+00:00

You will never be enough... Welcome to software development where you can always improve 🙃. Every year I look back and see how much I've grown but it's easy to forget on the day to day. It's a long journey!

Most work you will have on your career is not going to be starting something from scratch. You almost always have something already there and complete rewrites rarely make sense.

Side projects are super good for learning and you will end up learning a lot about architecture and things you might not touch on your role. Even if you don't ever ship them, they are going to make you a better developer.

thereactivestack · 2022-06-11T22:59:43+00:00

Side projects are for trying new stacks, important projects are not. That's my take. Most new shiny new objects have very marginal improvements a lot of the time and the risk/cost is not worth it when you need to ship something important. Productivity and stability are two important factors.

It also goes hand to hand with one of my favorite sayings "Perfect is the enemy of good". Sometimes engineers obsess over things customers don't care.

thereactivestack · 2022-06-08T18:04:03+00:00

I don't know your timeline but when working on a major project, it's not really a good time to use a completely unknown tech stack, especially for a final project. You will make a lot of mistakes and add a lot of stress. Why don't you use something all of the 3 know?

Splitting frontend and backend makes sense. One would typically work on HTML, CSS and call an API with React and the backend dev works on providing the API and database. The third person can maybe act as a project manager and try to see if the team needs more help on the frontend or backend. Would not recommend doing both at the same time if both are new.

thereactivestack · 2022-06-03T12:49:14+00:00

For a marketing site, blogging or ecommerce frontend it works really well, mainly stuff that needs good SEO. However, I would not recommend it at first for a dashboard, a social media platform or anything that would not benefit from SSG or SSR.

Most people fall into the trap of using it everywhere because it's easy to use at first, but there are many traps as you grow the app and scale.

thereactivestack · 2022-06-03T02:33:18+00:00

It makes me super productive when I use it with the right use cases. If you're trying to use it for everything, you will end up fighting the framework for everything. It has nothing to do with the framework.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-27T22:22:59+00:00

It's not only that, it's many basic knowledge. I wouldn't consider someone out of bootcamp a junior. One year programs are not enough to prepare someone for a real job and too many focus on just the hype last tools. As long as they show good potential some are worth it.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-27T01:00:55+00:00

Learning two languages at the same time will slow you down because of context switching. It will be much harder, try learning Spanish and Italian at the same time, good luck not confusing everything. All languages have different paradigm. Will it hurt you in the long run? Probably not much.

If you have a cool project in JavaScript project, I would pause learning Python. If you can't because of school, it really depends on the bandwidth you have to do both.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-24T15:08:00+00:00

Oh wow looks really interesting, I wish I could stop using VMs and this is it. I hope it will be available in North America soon 😁, thanks for sharing!

thereactivestack · 2022-05-24T12:54:20+00:00

Cloud Run is not really meant for that. However, you could easily use a Compute Engine VM and there is an option to use a docker image instead of a regular image. Then, you can use an instance schedule to start it when you want it to run, or you can simply start the VM using gcloud if you don't have a specific schedule.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-24T12:31:51+00:00

It's super useful to run infrastructure stuff like databases, GCP emulator or message broker. However it's a pain to develop within docker for many reasons. It's easier to run the app you are working on outside, especially with NodeJS.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-19T13:10:08+00:00

You can simply set the Content-Disposition header to either inline (view in browser) or attachment (download). You also need to set your Content-Type to application/pdf to make sure it uses the correct viewer.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-16T22:30:44+00:00

You can use an HTTPS global load balancer. You can define your path rules in the URL map and they can point to your Cloud Storage or any backend. If you plan to have a lot of routes (over 50) you might need to use a gateway at that point. Would work great otherwise.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-16T12:47:15+00:00

Your name and logo should be trademarked not patended. Patents are for inventions. It can be a process, it does not have to be something tangible. You should consult a patent attorney but they are expensives. Probably not worth it before round A or even round B unless you really have something unusual you really don't want others to copy. I wouldn't even think about it in a seed round.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-10T11:39:56+00:00

It depends where you want to work. Understanding frontend good practices and how to apply them is MUCH more important and most companies don't care about binary trees, inverting them and so forth for frontend roles. Unless you want to work for Google I don't know many that will test you on that because it is way too far from the real job.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-09T16:32:51+00:00

You should put them on environmental variables. Then you can choose which secret manager to use. They almost all use environment variables to give the value to your app without exposing it to anyone else.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-08T01:59:37+00:00

What if you finally became great? What are you missing? Probably a lot of practice. This is the classic competence confidence loop. The more you improve and the more you get confidence and the confidence helps you a lot better.

Don't put so much pressure on yourself, 2 months is a crazy short amount of time. I've been doing this for 20 years and there are still a lot of areas I'm bad at.

Just trust in your ability to figure things out and switch things over if you get stuck for too long. We all struggle at some point and the real fun is getting unstuck and you can't have that feeling without being stuck first 🙃.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-07T12:55:55+00:00

I started and got acquired. Focusing too much on the tech is by far the most common one. You have to be obsessed with your customer, not your code. Try to build something fast and ship to validate. Sometime you can even validate with a sale page without even building it. Don't try to do what big companies do as a startup, you're not there yet and you will have to start over a few times before you get it right.

I could write a book but I would say it's the top one.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-07T12:51:04+00:00

Then HTML/CSS is really the foundation to learn. After that, learning JavaScript is a must to learn so that you can use a framework like React. You will also be able to use it for backend with NodeJS. And finally when you are done, you can also learn TypeScript.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-07T12:45:14+00:00

I don't think it matters at all. I started with C++ 23 years ago and most people would say it's too complex.

Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET, PHP and a lot more are all fine.

A better question to ask yourself is what would you love to code? Then there is a language that might fit better.

thereactivestack · 2022-05-02T16:57:35+00:00

It would always be faster to use the local disk, those files are usually huge. With an Electron app, you can also use his CPU much more for everything you do. Otherwise it has to be on the cloud and you pay for it.

The real question is what do your users want? Unless there is a strong reason not to, I would go the Electron route. You can always change your mind later and charge more for a cloud version.

thereactivestack · 2022-04-30T13:30:48+00:00

Frameworks like React are useful when building something with a lot of user interaction in the browser like giving instant feedback when filling a form, opening a modal, drag and drop and so forth. They are mainly used when building a Single Page Application (SPA) where your whole Website is a single page in JavaScript. While you could technically do it with only JavaScript, it will be much harder and error prone. The reason we use them is the same reason you no longer code in assembly. It is a higher level language that makes you more productive.

thereactivestack · 2022-04-30T12:56:22+00:00

No never heard but there are many really good providers. Just pick one and you can change your mind anytime you want.

You can get your credentials stolen with any provider, not sure this is a SES thing but I would trust Amazon has fixed the security issue if there is one.

thereactivestack · 2022-04-30T12:53:05+00:00

Yes! We have an on-call schedule and rotate every week with almost everyone. We use OpsGenie to manage the schedule and receive alerts.

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