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Junior Dev Vs Websocket

Debugging Webdev Networking Javascript Programming

15 hours ago 108.9K views 0 shares

Junior Dev Vs Websocket

The sad Pepe frog in monk robes staring at a gun is basically the spiritual journey of every dev who's battled WebSockets. After 6 hours of "connection refused" errors and Stack Overflow threads from 2013, you start contemplating alternative career paths. The dark truth we veterans know: sometimes it's not your code, it's not the server, it's just WebSockets being WebSockets. The universe's way of teaching you humility through persistent connection failures.

I Won But At What Cost

Databases Programming Debugging Frontend Backend

4 months ago 177.9K views 0 shares

I Won But At What Cost

You spent days optimizing that SQL query to absolute perfection. Indexes tweaked. JOINs restructured. Subqueries eliminated. You turned a 30-second nightmare into a 0.3-second dream. Your boss was impressed... for approximately 5 minutes. Now they're casually dropping phrases like "real-time dashboards" and "instant analytics" in meetings as if your database isn't already sweating bullets just handling the current load. They have no idea that "real-time" means your beautiful query needs to run every 2 seconds instead of once an hour. Congratulations, you've optimized yourself into a corner. Your reward for fixing the performance issue? A completely unreasonable new requirement that makes the original problem look trivial. The database gods are laughing at you right now.