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Oh nice! I thought there was some deeper meaning.

For that 10% fee, a Government department gets a whole host of DevOps support, all the contractual stuff dealt with, all the security vetting / compliance bits sorted out. The alternative is they can go and hire all those people to make that happen and it takes months or years and cost £000's more than the fee!

Individual Government departments (or more accurately, individual teams or even individuals) procuring their own cloud services and creating a technical and bureaucratic FUBAR nightmare is exactly the problem the Gov.UK PaaS aims to solve.

Not sure why this is here (it's been in use for a while), but for the uninitiated, the GOV.UK PaaS is an abstraction over AWS that helps to standardise what has historically been a fragmented approach to hosting applications.

Nice idea but could do with a key. Why are some bigger? What do the colours mean? What's the blinking about?

The point of the map is to remind you that lighthouses blink? I thought it was to show you where the lighthouses were.

Strictly speaking, it's not a "whole OS shipped alongside windows".

It's an interop layer to allow you to interact with GNU based operating systems from Windows. Linux (or Debian etc.) is the OS.

Unfortunately, Windows at work as of late. But I've been surprised at how not-that-bad it's been. With Webstorm + Windows Terminal + Chrome, I have an almost identical frontend workflow to my previous job on MacOS, and barely have to touch anything Windows-specific.

I think it proves how utterly ridiculous modern life is that we feel the need to pay someone to lie in a tank of salt water in order to feel better.

Very true. It doesn't matter how interesting and varied the work could be if there isn't any work.

What's a "bang"?

I would say that 75% of applications companies build for themselves could be replaced with a spreadsheet.

I really hope Rails make a comeback.

Older versions of Laravel were superb - but when I went back recently I was shocked at what a clusterfudge had been made of shoehorning a frontend framework in.

> The requirement that people come to your company knowing how to use piss easy baby tools is an extremely dumb and lazy hiring practice.

Sounds angry to me!

Imagine being this angry about a job listing mentioning a Python library...

Interesting take. Facebook is one of the few companies in the world I'd never work for.

It does seem strange. This is a problem that has been long solved elsewhere. I don't get the fuss over it.

A static React site, an Express backend, and a REST API is hardly exotic

> support and context-switch between too many stacks

I don't believe this is the case at GDS, and wasn't the cause of the failure of the Gov.UK Verify project.

The UK must be one of the few countries left where you have to show (often paper) bank statements and utility bills to prove who you are (or simply that you live where you say you live), and in the process revealing all kinds of personal information that is none of the recipient's business - including Government.

This could all be solved with a national ID card (and would save the public purse £millions, as shown by the Verify programme). The complexity isn't in the actual technology (which exists, and has done for a long time), but the sheer number of possible identity documents that need to be accounted for and the mechanisms for collecting that documentation for verification.

But Brits are too stubborn to accept it. These are the same swathes of people that share stuff on Facebook, install Ring doorbells, and throw bank statements in the bin un-shredded.

Yeh this didn't happen.

> Hamilton said she didn't tell anybody about what had happened for a few days while she absorbed the experience.

Sure!

And a great example of this? Airbnb. Pretty much disproved the entire post.

Not too sure about this take. By this logic, the car industry would be bankrupt - people don't buy cars that often. Isn't the real issue that the spend vs. frequency is off? If I spend (on average) $1 a day on an app, that's a pretty good business. If I spend $10,000 every 10 year, that's also a good business. However, if I spend $1 every year, that's likely a bad business. It's not about how often, but how often as a function, with how much as the parameter.

Try telling that to the office cleaner.

DevOps is a culture, where there is a mindset of "build it, run it, own it". SRE is a job title. A new job title for what used to called System Administrators, except Google called them SRE's so everyone else joined in.

This is hilarious, and sadly not that unusual. You really do meet some utter lunatics working in these sorts of agencies/software houses - it seems worse in the UK too.

$5 Digital Ocean droplet with the one-click NodeJS install: https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/nodejs

> They want to pay $20/month to a single organization which has a hundred writers, also known as a "newspaper".

I think the demise of the publishing industry proves this point comically incorrect!

You'll miss out on a whole range of engineers that have a life outside of work (which also brings some balance and maturity to the job), and therefore have no time (or inclination) to groom a public presence on the internet. Raising a family, going cycling, volunteering, reading books - these are all more valuable insights into a candidate for me, more so than your retweets.

Site down. Perhaps they forgot to set autoscaling on the pods.