Reading the answers I envy all of you! Lone coders (would be my favorite if I could find someone giving me tasks to do remotely) happy teams with people > 40... I'm 52 and at the moment I'm unemployed. My last stable job was few years ago but I resigned because I had a fight with a manager, then I worked on very interesting projects with startups and side projects on my own but the problem is I have no stable income and sometime they don't pay me at all. So, since 3 months, I'm looking for a stable job or for a good single project to work on. In 3 months I had many interviews and coding tests, I received a lot of compliments and promises, but... in the end they disappear I don't know if it's my age, or there are many other candidates, or these alleged employers are just scum. The salary asked was low or average so should not be that the reason. Let's hope for the future 🤞 Reading your posts brought me good mood anyway. Thanks and best wishes to all

Just curious if some of you ever considered cloud as offsite solution for critical data. What scares me about home solutions is that if the house/office gets damaged all data is lost forever 😱 Almost every cloud provider has a cheap price tier for archive (write once, access rarely). You benefit from top security, both physical (Geo redundant archives in data centers protected by military level security) and IT (encryption, best attack surveillance and best security experts in the world)

Just few quick thoughts: distributed systems like kubernetes and service fabric already implement rolling updates, i.e. update application components while the application is running (included is also rollback/failover strategy if things go wrong) if you want to make your own distributed functionality upgrade on the run you might send a "reference" to the new functionality instead of the actual code instructions. You could add some kind of "authorized store" containing validated code. The message receiver gets a reference to the function to use to process that message, if not already available locally it downloads it from the store (only from the authorized one). This way you could mitigate security risk and avoid to implement a complicated code validation strategy at instruction level. Again these are quick thoughts, I didn't spend much time to validate my ideas but maybe they can be useful to you... I guess that's the spirit of this forum

I agree with the article. There are good advices in SOLID, GoF design patterns, automated tests and so on but they should be taken as such, guidelines to keep in mind when implementing solutions. Trying to be compliant at all the costs with strict rules is wrong. You should use common sense and eventually discuss with other peers what's the best solution. Each project has its own needs and software is a mix of art, creativity and science. A developer should not obsess if to use this or that design pattern, number of lines per method or number of unit tests. Do what you think makes really sense and improve code quality, compatibly with the deadlines. I guess developers obessing with rules are not doing this job for passion but just for the salary. On the othe hand "gurus" claiming they own the unique source of truth are often smart guys trying to avoid the hard work of writing code and make easy money becoming popular. What kind of super applications they wrote in the past? Probably not many, they are great at theory but nothing special at practice.

Hi Sander, thanks for all this info. I have some additional quick questions: How long it took for you to prepare for the exam? Did it help you in your professional life? (career boost, new contracts or jobs, etc.) So far, I used many Azure services, never had any problem, but I used to learn as I needed the service, not all together.

I guess it's time someone explains manifacturers the KISS software principle! :-D It was nice to chat with you Greetings from my home/prison 😰

Wow great post, congrats! I wanted to reply yesterday but my 40EU/month ADSL from Vodafone Italy is completely unusable in the evening, the provider can't handle the incresead traffic due to covid emergency (young people stay at home watching netflix instead of going out) Regarding the 1st part of your comment about converting infinite scale signals into finite entities (digits) I guess it's all about resolution. If the converter has more resolution than our senses can perceive than there is no difference between digital and analog, that can apply to color or sound fidelity for example. My original comment however was more about the "feeling" you get while using a device. With analog devices I could get more physical feelings. When I was a teen in the 80s I had a great experience listening to my pocketable analog stereo radio on my bed using over-the-ear headphones (same as 1st walkman model) . The tuning wheel was so precise and sensitive I could feel like almost catching the waves with my fingers, If I heard a nice song a bit disturbed I could easily adjust the quality by moving a bit the radio in my hands. Overall I could listen a sound full of juice and with wide open stereo, yes maybe a bit of background white noise but overall I got very good vibes and feelings. Current pocketable devices sounds dull in my opinion and the interaction gives no "physical" feelings. It's difficult to describe but I hope you understand what I mean. Another pleasent "analog" experience I forgot to mention is car A/C. Until early 2000 you could find cars with manual A/C, that is you tune the temperature with a mechanical wheel. I loved that because I could fine tune the temperature based on my physical feeling and I could do it while keeping my eyes and focus on the road. Today you have touch screen UI where temperature is chosen by clicking a touch screen icon '<' or '>' and it increments the desired temperature number to 20, 21, etc. with a stupid sensor placed who knows where that decide instead of me how much cool air to pump in. When you click the icon you risk an incident because your eyes and focus go on the touch screen 😱 Car assistant can help but once I rent a car that suddenly started to talk French for a software bug 😱 Even my Philips razor and hair cutter are now digital with touch screen interface, lcd displays and sealed li-ion batteries and often they don't do what I want. The razor software switch now randomly doesn't turn on so I bought a low cost double AA battery razor with analog switch. Such

Here we go again O'Reilly :-D

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I'm glad I'm not the only analog electronic fan (in some areas) For example I'm fed up with digital switches that keep draining batteries even when you switch off (Hey Sony A7 or Thinkpad8, can you hear me?) or refuse to power on when you switch on and you have to hold the switch down for 1 minute 😡 And then do you want to compare the pleasure and comfort to feel with your fingers a phisical switch you can operate even in the dark vs a touch one? How about the pleasure to fine tune FM radio with an analog tuning wheel vs a beeping digital RDS scanner deciding instead of you which tunes are ok to play and which ones are to bypass? An analog volume amp vs a digital one? The 1st analog walkman and its headphones vs the new digital players with earbuds? The 80s analog HiFi systems vs the current digital micro HiFi? Am i the only analog nostalgic? Please bring back some old school analog devices 🙏 even at premium price I'd buy some

I see this happening frequently in articles from O'Reilly (I read their programming newsletter) Is C# really so irrelevant in the industry? Or there is no significant innovotation to report? I don't think so...

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Take it easy, while doc is great and SF very interesting, you'll need some time to properly grasp and apply the new paradigms.

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Interesting! Do you know what this version is called?

it's called Service fabric mesh, I guess it's still preview, I have not studied it yet. Here are a couple of links Azure Service Fabric at Microsoft Build 2018 | Blog | Microsoft Azure[^] Azure Service Fabric: The road ahead for microservices  | Microsoft Build 2018 | Channel 9[^] Best regards Antonio

sorry for the late reply I love SF and highly recommend it. I used it for ~ 1 year and half. I will talk about the first version, a new one will soon complement it (without discontinuing the 1st) You can build highly scalable (planet scale) and reliable apps with just C# , visual studio (integrates perfectly) and an azure subscription. Containers are optional but you can do without. you need approximately 1 week to get started (the doc is excellent) 2 weeks start tinkering and 1 month to start being productive SF enforces some interesting paradigms to write better microservices apps . I love their reliable actors paradigm. The new version will target a "Serverless" approach so it will be quite different and containers here are required. I have not yet studied it but I'm sure the team will make a great work as usual. There is a great team with nice people, always ready to support the community, they do a monthly meeting, you could join to have a look (but community makes deep tech questions) Go for it ;) Antonio

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Sorry for you... sounds like you 'work from home'... if not properly managed that 15 seconds can be much to close for comfort.

So maybe the next question might be: how many of you work from home? I guess "loving to code" and "working from home" are strictly related :)

I think web apps will disrupt native apps. With a web app you can cover most of the user needs and you run on multiple platforms, desktop and mobile. The new "progressive web app" movement is empowering the web apps significantly and major browser makers are adopting that. There will be always the need for native apps but probably they are not going to be mainstream anymore. If I had limited time to invest in new dev technologies and I want to cover general purpose applications I would strongly consider web frontend technologies.