#Interviews

Candidate: It is easy to find people knowing Node.
Me: How well does Node do when dealing with DB heavy OLTP/near-realtime transactional environments
Candidate: I use Sequelize I don't need to worry about database load.
Me: How does Sequelize manage schema migrations?
Candidate: What is a schema migration?
#softwareengineering #interviews

Candidate: I will use Node and add as many nodes as I want with AWS API Gateway in front. Elastic Bean Stalk to scale up/down as needed.
Me: Why NodeJS?
Candidate: It is the fastest environment around and we have enough resources to get things done.
Me: Please elaborate what you mean by resources.
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Me: Okay and fair enough. Did you use Redis in primary-secondary mode or cluster?
Candidate: We used a single node Redis Cluster
Me: If you were to implement a solution which served up over 10k requests per minute, what language would you use and why?

<INTERLUDE>I know this question seems like a trick one, and if he had said "It depends", that would have been a good starting point</INTERLUDE>
#softwareengineering #interviews

Me: Why Elastic Search? Don't they support different usecases?
Candidate: Because ElasticSearch is more scaleable than Redis
Me: Why Redis? and why not Memcached?
Candidate: Because we had experience with Redis and not Memcached
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Me: Why ElasticBeanStalk? and why not ECS or other simpler solution?
Candidate: Because ElasticBeanStalk gives me the ability to scale up/down instances. I cannot do that with EC2. I did not look at ECS because we were not very conversant with it.
Me: You could use ASG for EC2
Candidate: What is ASG?
Me: How else did you scale?
Candidate: I implemented caching in Redis. We started with Redis and then wanted to move to ElasticSearch

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Candidate: I haven't used SQS, but I have experience with RabbitMQ
Me: What is the difference between Kafka and RabbitMQ? What would be the usecase for each of them?
Candidate: Kafka has pub-sub, and RabbitMQ is point-to-point
Me: How did you implement scaling? What were some of the numbers?
Candidate: I used ElasticBeanStalk for scaling. We were able to serve 10k users per day and about 5k requests per hour
#Softwareengineering #interviews

I interviewed a 20 year experienced candidate who claimed to be an architect. Follow along as I share the interview details. It was a fun ride and I made an honest attempt to get him to succeed in the interview.
Me: What is the difference between Kafka and SQS?

#Softwareengineering #interviews

IndieAuthors.Social Newsindieauthornews@indieauthors.social
2025-05-02

IndieView with Jessica Levine, author of Three Cousins

Shaping the story were experiences I had in college being part of three-women friendship groups; relationships with cousins close to my age; visits to Yale and New Haven that I made because my best friend from high school went there; … Continue reading →…
theindieview.com/2025/05/02/in

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2025-05-02

alojapan.com/1263647/japan-rea Japan ready to use US treasury holdings as negotiation card in tariff talks #AnalysisOfAzerbaijan #azerbaijan #Baku #ImportantNewsOfAzerbaijan #InternationalExperts #Interviews #InterviewsWithAzerbaijaniAnalysts #Japan #JapanNews #news #NewsFromBaku #NewsOfAzerbaijan 02 May 2025 16:54 The Japanese government is prepared to use its position as the world’s largest holder of US government bonds as a strong bargaining chip in negotiations with th…

Japan ready to use US treasury holdings as negotiation card in tariff talks
IndieWireindiewire
2025-05-02
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2025-05-02

Collin Armstrong: I’ve Been a Fan of Horror Since I Can Remember

In this interview, author Collin Armstrong discusses how the 2020 era of COVID shares parallels with his new horror novel, Polybius.
The post Collin Armstrong: I’ve Been a Fan of Horror Since I Can Remember appeared first on Writer's Digest.
writersdigest.com/collin-armst

#BeInspired #Genre #Horror #Interviews #WriteBetterFiction
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Frontend Dogmafrontenddogma@mas.to
2025-05-02

Two Decades of Git: A Conversation With Creator Linus Torvalds, by @torvalds (@github):

youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdE

#videos #interviews #git #history

Deadlinedeadline
2025-05-01

Mark Duplass On Whether Michael Barnett Comes To Terms With His “Egregious Enabling” Of Natalia Grace’s Abuse In ‘Good American Family’ Finale

deadline.com/2025/05/good-amer

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