Bernardo Salazar

…ation. Not to denigrate the responsibilities and challenges of such a role, but it is not the same. The level of expenditure that an average public corp. engages in just as the background noise of doing business would vacuum the accounts of an average startup dry in just a few months. In fact that is just what happens far too often, especially with investor-led startups. Successful …

… laptop was easy — getting it to work across a cluster of machines was orders of magnitudes harder. A good analogy between getting code working on my laptop to having code running in production would be the difference between swimming in an indoor pool versus swimming in choppy rivers full of piranhas. The feeling of being unable to fix my own service running in a foreign environment because I didn’t…

…f refactoring Ruby code. I feel this translates equally well to infrastructural refactors as well — make the simplest infrastructural change to things that are most alike to remove a pain point.