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No As A Service
Cloud Devops Programming
1 day ago 65.2K views 0 shares
No As A Service
In a world where everything is becoming "as a Service" (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), someone finally created the most useful service of all: rejection automation. This person's hoodie proudly declares their business model - saying "No" so you don't have to! For just $4.99/month, they'll decline all your meeting invites, reject pull requests with insufficient tests, and automatically respond "Have you checked Stack Overflow?" to all questions. The enterprise tier includes custom rejection templates and a "Maybe Later" option that recursively schedules itself to infinity. The irony? Their API documentation consists of a single endpoint that always returns 403 Forbidden.

The Eight Horsemen Of Software Development
Programming Devops Agile Debugging Testing
2 days ago 55.1K views 0 shares
The Eight Horsemen Of Software Development
Behold! The ultimate software engineer personality test that's more accurate than any Myers-Briggs nonsense! I'm DYING at "The Optimistic Estimator" because we've ALL been that delusional fool promising miracles in "2 days max!" only to still be debugging three weeks later, questioning our life choices. And don't get me started on "The 'Actually' Specialist" - that monster who waits until AFTER you've deployed to production to smugly inform you why your approach is fundamentally flawed. The AUDACITY! 💀 Personally, I fluctuate between "The 'It Depends' Guy" and "The Pragmatic Pessimist" - multiplying estimates by 3 and STILL delivering late is basically my toxic superpower at this point!

Anyone Ever Have To Migrate Services To The Cloud
Backend Devops AWS Azure Gcp
7 days ago 112.2K views 0 shares
Anyone Ever Have To Migrate Services To The Cloud
Cloud migration in a nutshell: Backend service owners clutching their precious code like a hairless cat hoarding gold coins, while completely ignoring those pesky validation steps scattered on the table. "But it works on my machine!" they hiss, as the DevOps team sighs for the 47th time today. The validation steps might as well be invisible—just like documentation and proper error handling. Who needs testing when you've got blind faith and a prayer to the server gods?

The Great Architecture Debate: Monolith Vs. Microservices
Backend Devops Kubernetes Docker Programming
13 days ago 104.7K views 0 shares
The Great Architecture Debate: Monolith Vs. Microservices
The eternal architectural debate visualized with poop emojis. One massive monolith that's smiling confidently versus a scattered army of tiny microservices. The joke here is that both approaches can either be elegant solutions or complete crap depending on your team's competence. Nothing says "enterprise architecture" quite like discussing serious technical decisions with cartoon feces.

The Wooly Oracle Of Tech
Programming Devops Backend Cloud
14 days ago 67.5K views 0 shares
The Wooly Oracle Of Tech
Software architects are the mythical creatures of tech teams who spend years growing their wool of abstract knowledge until they become these massive, overgrown sheep of theoretical expertise. The meme perfectly captures how they finally emerge from their architectural diagrams and design patterns when forced to join a video call—just an absolute unit of fluff with barely visible features underneath. Their "pet" is just the poor developer who has to implement all those "elegant" solutions while the architect sits there looking smug about their latest microservice manifesto. The bigger the wool, the more senior the title!

Being Java Developer In 2024
Java Devops Programming Backend
21 days ago 82.9K views 0 shares
Being Java Developer In 2024
BEHOLD! The modern Java developer's plight—desperately trying to build a Spring Boot app with the technological equivalent of a cardboard tube and duct tape! 😭 While the rest of the world moves on with shiny new frameworks, here's our hero, wearing headphones to drown out the screams of 10,000 XML configuration files and 47 dependency injections gone wrong. The blue cardboard tube represents hope... the last remaining shred of sanity before the inevitable heap space error crushes their soul. And yet, they persist! Because nothing says "enterprise-ready" like spending 6 hours configuring Tomcat while your Node.js friends built an entire startup in the meantime!

The Architecture Intelligence Bell Curve
Backend Devops Kubernetes Docker Programming
23 days ago 86.5K views 0 shares
The Architecture Intelligence Bell Curve
The bell curve of architecture wisdom strikes again! On the left, we have the blissfully ignorant junior dev who's happy with a monolith because they don't know any better. In the middle, the insufferable mid-level architect screaming about microservices like they've discovered fire. And on the right, the battle-scarred senior who's been through enough distributed system nightmares to circle back to "just use a damn monolith." Nothing like spending six months untangling a hairball of 47 microservices communicating through a message queue that nobody understands anymore just to realize it could've been three functions in one repo.

Cloud Bill Goes Brrrrr
Cloud Devops Kubernetes AWS Azure
23 days ago 97.3K views 0 shares
Cloud Bill Goes Brrrrr
Hitting that "deploy to cloud" button feels like a heroic moment until you realize you've just signed up your credit card for an all-you-can-eat buffet where the servers never sleep. Your ancestors watch proudly as you configure auto-scaling without setting budget alerts. That $5/month estimate turns into $500 when your app gets three users and suddenly needs 17 microservices, a managed database, and enough storage to archive the Library of Congress. Future generations will be paying off your Kubernetes cluster long after you're gone.

Containers Explained: The Shipping Analogy
Docker Devops Kubernetes Programming Backend
26 days ago 107.8K views 4 shares
Containers Explained: The Shipping Analogy
The perfect visual guide to container technologies that no documentation could ever match: Docker: A single shipping container. Simple, isolated, gets the job done. "It works on my machine" finally became "it works in my container." Docker Compose: Multiple containers stacked together like building blocks. For when your app is too complex for just one container but you still want to pretend everything is under control. Kubernetes: Complete chaos with containers falling off the ship into the ocean. What started as "let's orchestrate our containers" ends with "why is our production environment swimming with the fishes?" The perfect representation of what happens when you try to scale without understanding what you're doing. The accuracy is painful. Four years of computer science education just to end up googling "why is my pod crashing" at 3 AM.

The Seven Deadly Dev Archetypes
Programming Devops Agile Debugging Testing
1 month ago 93.1K views 0 shares
The Seven Deadly Dev Archetypes
Ah, the seven deadly archetypes of every engineering team. I've worked with all of these people, and I've been all these people—sometimes in the same sprint. My personal favorite is "The Silent Operator" who hasn't spoken since the company holiday party of 2019 but somehow commits the exact fix at 2 AM while everyone else is arguing in Slack. And don't get me started on "The System Rebuilder." Sure, event sourcing sounds amazing in theory—right up until you're explaining to the CEO why the shopping cart needs six months of refactoring. The real unicorn is someone who's none of these. If you find them, lock the door and hide their passport.

Keep It Simple Stupid
Devops Kubernetes Docker Programming Backend
1 month ago 107.9K views 0 shares
Keep It Simple Stupid
The eternal struggle of software architects: sweating profusely while staring at two buttons that represent opposing architectural philosophies. One promises the trendy complexity of microservices everywhere, the other suggests keeping things simple. Meanwhile, their finger hovers over the microservices button as if drawn by some mysterious force that compels them to overcomplicate everything. Nothing says "enterprise solution" quite like turning a simple CRUD app into 47 independently deployable services that require their own dedicated SRE team.

Newborn K8s: Destined For Container Chaos
Kubernetes Devops Docker Programming Cloud
1 month ago 115.3K views 0 shares
Newborn K8s: Destined For Container Chaos
That baby's face is the exact expression of someone who just found out they're destined for a life of debugging YAML indentation errors and explaining to management why "just adding one more pod" isn't going to fix everything. Poor kid hasn't even mastered object permanence yet, but Dad's already planning his future of midnight alerts because some microservice decided to spontaneously combust. The baby knows what's coming—that's the face of someone who already understands that "it works on my machine" will be the most frustrating phrase in his vocabulary. Welcome to existence, kid. Your inheritance is a cluster of problems.