I noticed airflow as the backing orchestration service. Was there any consideration for another orchestration tool? I know Airbnb has at least two internally, but also that airflow is the predominant one for the data org still.
Milwaukie, Oregon to be exact. It’s a fairly small city just on the edge of south Portland, but it punches above its weight class in terms of successful businesses. Bobs Red Mill, Dark Horse Comics and Dave’s Killer Bread all are headquartered here.
I live in Portland (though a recent transplant) and had no idea Dave's Killer Bread was here (much less Milwaukie); no wonder you find it everywhere (we buy it ourselves).
I don’t consider the sleep and auto retry features that interesting, but definitely nice to have.
The advantages to me are the the ability to easily have long-lived “workflows” that are written in the language of your choice (5 SDKs the moment), remove the need for storing state in your application database (even remove the need for a database all together for some services), handle the rough edges around distributed concurrency, and provide out of the box visibility into workflow states.
It does seem like it would be overkill for simple use cases, but with the SaaS offering being so compelling IMHO, I think it can make sense to put smaller use cases there if there is a chance of more use cases in the future.
It does sound like you have more production experience with temporal than me though, so please push back if my glasses are a bit rosey
I do definitely think temporal is a good product, and I hope my original comment didn’t come across as overly negative. I also only have production experience with the go sdk, so maybe some of the pain points are less relevant in other languages. The main thing is that in order to accomplish all of the things it does, using temporal effectively adds a second runtime to your application. A runtime that most developers in your language of choice are not familiar with and, at least in my experience, has a fraction of the documentation.
I’d still definitely recommend temporal if your use-case involves long running workflows. I’ve just seen a decent number of developers viewing temporal as some sort of silver bullet but, as always, there are trade offs.
What does his sexual preference have to do with his qualifications for this job?
I think it’s fair to criticize his response but bringing up his sexual preference is a tired and bigoted complaint. His detractors seem to be more concerned about his sexuality than anyone else.
My point in saying that is that he is a diversity hire. He was hired because he's gay. That's his only "qualification" for his position that he was gifted for getting out of Biden's way during the primaries.
See also Kamala Harris (first female VP of color! Wow!!!) and Karine Jean-Pierre (she's black AND lesbian!!!), both were chosen for diversity reasons and are completely incompetent at their jobs.
I know your point. It’s not subtle. It also discounts that he was a rising star in politics. It’s the same thing we saw with Ben Carson.
I think it’s a low blow to suggest that either were hired to virtue signal diversity.
I much prefer a later comment where you attempt to lay out a case why he was bad at his job for things he did or didn’t do. Well at least that’s what I think the sources you provided did.
I don't care that he's gay. It has zero impact one way or the other. My point is he's bad at his job. He was not chosen in good faith for this position based on his qualifications to do this job. Why was he chosen to be secretary of transportation when he has no training, experience, or background in transportation? I think we both know the answer.
Speaking of KJP, Buttigieg's press secretary literally accused media representatives of violence because they asked her questions about this incident, while Pete was on-site. Really puts KJP in a positive light, relatively speaking.
Our household does well, or at least did this year, but earn nowhere near what your household does. BUT, I think I can relate.
I've typed up 4 responses to this comment, but deleted the other three because they all assumed certain things about you based on my own beliefs and experience with this issue.
This comment makes you sound unhappy but I hope that is not the case. You have nothing but choices and opportunity. Ask yourself "What is enough?" and "When I have enough, what will do?". It's likely you're already there and can finance a life that makes you happy.
> I've wondered if leaving the SF Bay Area will be the key to ending my social comparison misery cycle.
I suppose you can either change yourself or change your social circle. I've found big changes in myself are difficult without changing the external factors for some period of time. Otherwise, it's too easy to fall into old patterns of behavior.
1% in 2018 tax year was $540,009 [1]. We have NOT seen ~60% inflation since then. I hope you are joking, it isn't obvious at all. If you're not, please site your reasoning / sources.
Top 1% by wealth maybe. In my experience, those in the top 1% by income are not that far off from the rest of the top 10% or so. Life looks easier, but they're still paying a mortgage and require a job to survive. I'd even wager some are still living paycheck to paycheck sadly.
Many are living paycheck to paycheck since most have a tendency to "live up to our paycheck" and purchase status symbols. I drove a 9 year old car in 2021. My pay increased 25% since then. I now drive an 11 year old car. A lot of people wouldn't.
Also, I just want to make a distinction between wage and income. The income of the top 1% should dwarf their wage. I recall many CEOs in the 80s and 90s famously claiming themselves wages of $1 per year, conveniently leaving out stock-based compensation and performance bonuses. Present CEO wages aren't as laughably low, but the overall income from their employment is not derived from wages but non-wage based compensation
As someone who was vaccinated three times, obeyed quarantine and had a kid during the pandemic— I don’t think that stat is having the effect you intended.
Kids were relatively resilient from the virus.
Now addressing the logic in your response, are you suggesting we should have similar school shutdown measures for the flu every year? For a similar three year period influenza will kill 400-600 kids.
