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You are hitting the nail on the head with the communication issues. Truth be told, I am more senior and the rest of the leadership team understands that this individual needs a lot of management and shouldn't be allowed to implement stuff on their own.

"If his arguments are shaky, he will step down from the pedestal on his own when he realises that this decision is inefficient and unnecessary." - The sad part about this person is that when presented with this type of feedback, they always double and triple down despite the facts on the board, it is really odd and risky behavior to be honest.

At the end of the day, I am the person who has to put him in his place, so I want to make sure I am not missing a major point of consideration with celery.

That's definitely the core point. To this guys credit, he figured out that in the 2020's you don't need to be technically correct to sell solutions; you just need to liter your documentation with emojis and horse shit to win people over.

I just want to make sure in this case, I'm not missing out on some super special sauce or advantage that celery provides. Consuming a queue seems trivial that I am worried I am missing something.

Ask HN: The Worst Engineer I Know Is Demanding We Start Using Celery (Python)

I work with an engineer who consistently advocates for terrible architecture and design patterns with a ton of confidence. Every time one of his ideas is implemented it turns into a flaming bag of complexity dog shit, and everyone else is left holding the bag to clean up.His new tirade is demanding we start using celery to solve every problem we have. I instinctively want to dismiss him out of...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog? on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:25PM (#43042785)
Thanks for this. Learning my lesson now to standardize on OTEL first. Thanks for the tip.
Re:Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog? on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:24PM (#43042779)
Thank you for this recommendation. I have heard the name before, but it slipped my mind to really dig in. I am definitely interested here though. Will start to play around and reach out if it looks promising. Do you all sign BAAs?
Re:Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog? on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @07:36PM (#43020292)
This is new to me. Thank you for sharing. Looks like it hits a lot of notes I am looking for. Excited to keep digging in!

Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

Datadog has turned into an ever loving piece of shit. I am sick of their sales team grabbing us by the ankles and "Accidentally" charging for services we don't use. Now, this morning they changed something with their AWS integration that is causing 10X the API calls against our accounts (and thus, 10X guardduty costs on our end analyzing those API requests).I have had enough of their bullshit...

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Re:Has Slack Been Buggier Than Normal on Friday December 20, 2024 @08:43AM (#42470984)
Thank you for the candid response. Totally agree with you there. Just seems this last week or so has been worse than usual.

Has Slack Been Buggier Than Normal

Slack seems to be buggier than usual over the past 10 days or so. Is Anyone else seeing the same thing?. A lot of my colleagues are reporting Slack being laggy and/or crippling their CPU across both Windows and Linux. Slack's self reported status page doesn't show anything as down.

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Re:Implementing Passkeys Using Keycloak on Saturday April 13, 2024 @11:06AM (#40023602)
Sharing a blog I wrote giving a crude demo for how to bootstrap a passkey only login flow for a web app. Hoping it gives you all inspiration to push towards passkeys and OIDC because everyone still screws up MFA when applied at large enough scales.

In one step, Passkeys provide multiple forms of authentication including:

* FIDO2 based credential * Origin verification of the requesting web app by the Platform Authenticator (this part makes them phish resistant) * user password, because you had to unlock the platform authenticator in the first place * device authentication, because the passkeys are stored within device bound platform authenticators

Don't let your lazy compliance people tell you passkeys aren't MFA.

Re:Why Mainers Are Falling Hard for Heat Pumps on Saturday March 02, 2024 @10:49PM (#39578268)
I can't believe she showed her feet for free like that. Leaving more money on the table than Satoshi.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024) on Saturday March 02, 2024 @10:32PM (#39578194)
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