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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
Once I came back from my medical leave I got right into training to become the technical lead of the team I'm on. Not gonna lie, I'm kind of terrified. I feel like I'm a pretty decent programmer, but at this point I'm getting into some higher-level systems architecture and I'm not as confident with that.
I'm going to be leading the team that provides analytics for support centres, so call centres with chat and email too. It's not really that exciting, but it's also one of those things where it's probably a bit more involved than you'd initially think. Once things start scaling and needing distributed systems everything just gets... complicated.
Right now I'm doing crash courses in some AWS services. Whee!
The system design primer is mostly a resource for interviewing but is a good resource to discover some of the basics. I would also give designing data intensive applications a read if you do any kind of work with large scale datastores.
This looks like the exact kind of thing I need to start with - thanks so much for sharing. There aren't a ton of people left at my workplace who are subject matter experts in this kind of thing so I'll have to do a lot of independent reading.
Well, I just posted in the old topic, but I think it's worth getting this one started! I've been spending a lot of time outside of working doing more fun music stuff with the Monome ecosystem. I have a pair of Norns Shields, a grid, and a 16n faderbank, and it's opened up a lot of possibilities in terms of algorithmic sequencing and sound manipulation. I'm really impressed by what they've done with the relatively high-level language Lua atop SuperCollider.