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When Your Tools Are Way Outmatched For The Task

Hardware Programming Debugging

1 month ago 115.3K views 0 shares

When Your Tools Are Way Outmatched For The Task

That moment when management expects you to build an enterprise-level application with 10,000 concurrent users on a 5-year-old Dell with 4GB of RAM. Nothing says "we believe in you" quite like assigning you to build the next AWS competitor on hardware that struggles to run Chrome and Slack simultaneously. I've seen toasters with more computing power.

When They Ask Me To Build A Full-Stack App With Notepad

Programming Webdev Devops Hardware Frontend

5 months ago 268.2K views 1 shares

When They Ask Me To Build A Full-Stack App With Notepad

Ah, the classic corporate disconnect between expectations and resources. They want you to build the equivalent of a commercial airliner—a complex, multi-layered full-stack application with databases, APIs, and a slick UI—but they've equipped you with the computational equivalent of a tricycle. Nothing says "we believe in your abilities" quite like asking you to handle 50GB Docker containers on a machine that struggles to run Notepad++. The best part? When it inevitably crashes, they'll wonder why you couldn't make it fly.