Comments by "JohnDoe" (@JohnDoe-my5ip) on "ByteByteGo" channel.

  1. Conversely, embrace open standards, then extend and extinguish.
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  2. Multicloud is a convenient lie we tell ourselves. That vendor lock-in is largely unavoidable and can only be mitigated. Migrating cloud providers is only marginally less challenging than migrating database engines.
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  3. Just make sure that rule of thumb doesn’t lead you to Oracle’s sales department and you’re all good!
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  4. Docker is extremely user friendly compared to the virtualization solutions that came before it. All these glorified data analysts doing “ML” would be back to working with Matlab making 70% less money without docker. All the complexity was abstracted away for you. You should love docker. Your job with minimal programming/sysadmin skills required, wouldn’t be possible without it.
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  5. DynamoDB is highly optimized for low latency reads.
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  6. It’s not savage. That’s just smart SEO
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  7. In theory, you can just swap out docker for another engine in the future. In practice, it’s spread so far and wide at this point, with layers of tech debt built on top of it at nontech companies that don’t value engineering talent.Docker could “die” and be sold off to CA, Broadcom, or private equity, and they’d have whales to milk for years and years to come. See also: VMWare.
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  8. Even if only 10% of current docker users lock themselves in via terrible system design, that will keep them in business indefinitely.
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  9. Try explaining that to your idiot product owner with an MBA who only thinks in sprint cycles… it’d be so nice to have a job where they let engineers do actual engineering…
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  10. It’s odd to phrase it that way IMO. Why like or dislike it? This is just a trade-off to consider. If read before write is a common access pattern in your application, I agree that this is the wrong DB architecture for you. But other applications have different requirements and need to optimize for different things. There is no right or wrong answer here in general. It all depends on context. Being opinionated about tech in this way is a hallmark of a junior engineer IMO.
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