Maybe they prioritized it low, assigned it to a group of 3 devs, and it functioned the first time they demoed it to management, so it shipped. All other devs would’ve been working on their in-house software.
I haven’t heard of a single software job in the last decade that offers anything resembling “training”. You sink or swim based on your previous knowledge, what you can glean from the codebase and coworkers, and how skilled you are at self-teaching.
all of these various 3rd party backup tools use these things. Mostly it's QOL stuff that you get from a 3rd party tool. We use barman, very happily: https://pgbarman.org/
Barman has been around since 2011, released under the GPL. If it does get ruined by someone, I'll replace it in my stack or fork it for maintenance myself. I'm not very worried though.
EDB has been in private equity(PE) hands since 2019 with out managing to ruin it so far. The ownership in PE hands seems to be pretty stable, so it doesn't look like the typical pump/dump mess you often see from crappy PE money.
Postgres is very "unix-y" in that everything is a separate tool. It has backup interfaces and commands but doesn't ship with a comprehensive backup management solution.
There are worse things, like switching off light and not using appliances for an "Earth hour", while making the power grid shedding the excess capacity frantically.
If you want to make a difference, do something small, but do it every day.
Yeah, I don't like these gestures that are tied to a specific day. It's blue tribe signaling with no real sacrifice necessary.
I believe the "minimalism" movement has been far more impactful in the long-run despite fewer adoptees, just by being a trend that capitalized on the benefits in its messaging. Those who optimize for minimalism consume less, but constantly.
Everyone: Please stop using ‘#’ as an href placeholder. Don’t make your ‘<a>’ elements rely on events. If you want to replace their events with others, go for it. But please make them work at the base level.
When the encoding relies on differentiating between lowercase and capitalized characters, you’re hitting a high level of ambiguity. Hexadecimal UUIDs don’t have this problem.
Yes. Even 64 bits is too many, really: at 6 bits per human-recognizable token, it's more than 10 tokens, which is outside the range of what almost any human can keep in their working memory. You can't even hold it in your head long enough to type it in a different window. 128 bits is completely beyond that; when confronted with 128-bits like a UUID, people just give up. Seriously, try actually typing in a UUID sometime. Even with the grouping it's incredibly difficult. Between 64-bits and 128-bits you discover that you absolutely need an automated way to transmit the data, and then how do you get it to that airgapped computer?
The more important requirement is that the id should not be guessable and not easily be brute-forced (example: YouTube private video listings). Now, what's the minimum required entropy to make it unguessable but also make it short enough to have people tell the id over the phone or something?
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