Sounds a bit like Adobe Flex.

It's rather unusual to have all three people mentioned be Polish.

While I think the sentiment is overblown, if you compare Azure to AWS, Azure's stability is like Google's.

IAM is absolutely NOT something you can just ignore unless you have a huge pile of cash to burn when your shit gets compromised.

I worked at a startup, hosted on AWS, that was deployed before EC2 IAM roles were a thing. We had the same AWS access key credentials deployed on every machine. Whenever an employee left, we had to rotate them all.. Fun times.

You are data plumber, lots of dealing with other people's shit and people who don't know what they want.

This is correct, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you don't end up with the same thing in application engineering.

Sounds like software engineering as well

It's not a Microsoft tool. For a supposedly fully cross-platform language it seems pretty bad to only support first-class developer experience on Windows.

Road quality in 1600s would make it quite difficult I think.

I was thinking that about 2 months ago. And then I saw people doing bikepacking/long distance bike touring, and I was quite amazed. With wide enough tires, adequate tire pressure control and seat suspension, people ride huge distances with no problems, on old fashion dirt roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSrBIIC4po

The reason I linked a bike above was that they truly are a modern marvel. So unassuming and yet so flexible, reliable and overall... powerful, plus cheap by modern standards. A bike is probably the most accessible high tech modern invention that we take for granted.

I don't think you need seat suspension for bicycles to beat walking. On the kinds of surfaces that foot traffic naturally forms, am average commuter bike is gonna perform very decently.

I think the only qualitative difference would be that modern roads are usable all year whereas natural tracks are generally gonna get unusable when it rains a lot.

It's incredible that we have machines that can take that kind of a beating, while also having precision components on them, and also being light enough to pick up in 1 hand, and being affordable to the poorest members of society.

I think the word we are looking for here is horses lol

Horses are not "affordable to the poorest members of society" though

I'd treat it more as a linter. You deal with it before submitting review for a human.

Have you read the post at all?

> This situation caught up with them in the past few months with many outages that caused close $1m USD in damages. Thus why leadership felt they needed a tech lead to steer the ship.

What is your point may I ask?

If they were a high-performing team nobody would have brought someone external to steer the ship in the right direction.

The million dollar outage is probably a tall tail but passed around the management table as blame everyone can agree with because that group isn't represented.

Looking at the startup world, I would not be as confident about "solving problems for society", lol.