Code & Coffee - 3/18/2022

 Code & Coffee - 3/18/2022

• Data migrations
• Learning about your data
• What database to use
• Datastore vs. CloudSQL vs. Spanner
• advantages, disadvantages and differences
• Bringing data over and comparing to make sure the data is ok
• Streaming data
• 30 minute migration vs 2 weeks
• 1000 vs 400 million records
• Unit tests
• Why
• Independent/Isolated
• Descriptive
• Using good method names
• "networkchuck"
• makes it fun to watch.

Code & Coffee - 3/25/2022

 Code & Coffee - 3/25/2022

• Weekend plans
• Epic pillow fort in the living room
• Helping with ham radio test session
• Kids and cars
• Some are less interesting in driving
• But get there eventually
• Picking a car for kids
• Learning by fixing
• Are we in the middle?
• Grandma and Grandpa didn't know how to program a vcr
• The kids don't either
• Is that really a problem
• They need to know how to mop, or use a broom
• The generational oscillation effect of skills
• Diy - do it yourself - has the skill to do
• difm - do it for me - someone else will to it for me
• skilled trade - but cobblers kids don't have shoes
• repeat
• Balancing diy and difm
• Pulumi vs Terraform
• Terraform vs Terraform Cloud & Enterprise
• https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/terraform/
• Thermal pad replacement 108 to 96 degrees

Code & Coffee - 3/4/2022

 Code & Coffee - 3/4/2022

• How to properly spectate at a cross country event
• Cheating is ok for parents ;-)
• Topic of the week: Spring cleaning
• Cleaning out the tech debt
• CI/CD betterization
• Better deployments with Ansible
• Better branching strategy
• Tag the production branch
• First admit that there is a problem
• Checking with the sr engineers about what problems there are
• Roadmapping the items - seeking funding for low hanging fruit
• Maintenance
• Documentation
• Database change management
• Tagging git repos as things are deployed
• The batman will answer the call
• Retraining the production support requesters to use the bat-signal
• Developers are happier not
• Watch out for the Velociraptors
• They sneak in and eat your velocity
• Over optimization
• Pike 5 Rules
• https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html
• Hoares Maxim
• In the summary of the Pike rules link
• What is success for the tech debt exercise?
• Response:
• Better automation
• Sonar runs against the code
• unit tests with some coverage
• Challenge:
• Inspire the team members to:
• Identify tech debt
• Start taking steps to remediate the tech debt
• This is an indication of growth of the members of the team
• Time to clean up the passwords in the source files
• -- anonymous
• It ain't easy to nuke passwords from github, change the password and don't commit any more passwords to github
• "I need you to fail, so that things get better"
• Oh and no more working until 4am
• Cleaning up the home theater after the raid failure
• BackBlaze saved the day the raid was backed up and the content was saved offsite
• https://www.backblaze.com/
• Icedrive is an alternative: https://icedrive.net/

Good stuff as usual, thank you to all for stopping by.