A developer faced a perplexing performance limit in their Node.js game with low CPU usage. The unexpected solution involved scaling down from multiple containers to a single one, revealing a crucial lesson about context switching and premature optimization.
Explore strategies used by software engineers to combat skill atrophy and stay relevant, from building side projects to focusing on health, soft skills, and financial security.
Developers share their go-to message queues, discussing trade-offs between Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis Streams, SQS, Postgres, and others. Key themes include operational simplicity, queues vs. streams, and real-world experiences.
A Hacker News discussion analyzes the 10-year outlook for tech employment, exploring LLM impacts, the future of junior vs. senior roles, and emerging opportunities in specialized and entrepreneurial software development.