If you have customers with servers, then surely (hopefully) someone remotely technical manages them but I've found that technical expertise varies greatly and in my experience not many customers have interest in taking on the install/maintenance of said software.
You basically need something as easy to install (and update) as Google Chrome or you have to do the install and maintenance yourself (trust me on this, it's a huge time suck and customers can have all kinds of weird setups).
My "favorite" memory was a customer who ignored our request for a dedicated VM to install our web software onto. They neglected to tell us that this system already had a service running that used port 80/443 and somehow we were able to get through our install and take over that port without breaking the application but one day the server rebooted and our app got the ports before the other app. What was that app? It was their access control software that let people enter the building...
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You might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine...
To add a similar answer, only in the past couple of years have I had a nice rice cooker (we have a Zojirushi) that keeps the rice fresh for ~12 hours. It is irreplaceable at this point (My wife is Asian and rice is a part of pretty much every meal.) Best appliance I have ever bought, gets used every. single. day. and have rice ready-to-eat throughout the day.
We bought a bread machine almost three years ago. Since then we are yet to buy bread in a shop. The machine is amazing. It literally takes 3 minutes to prep. No fancy recipe. Spoon of yeast + 400g flour + spoon of sugar + spoon of salt + 20g of butter + 280ml of water. Quick program and fresh bread is done in 2h.
Highly recommend it. I don't want to advertise but we bought a well known Japanese brand after a lot of research.
Zojirushi (which seems to be high quality as well) was mentioned but I went more mainstream and bought Panasonic SD-2511KXC. Looks like they don't make it anymore but there are similar ones available.
Just one data point, that might be of use to know:
We're currently running into an issue where we've used a table as a message queue in a database.
We gained a compliance requirement that we must log all access (including direct DB queries) to certain info in the database. One of the tables being used as a queue contains this data and is polled hundreds of times per minute making our logs ridiculously huge and we now have to move the queue somewhere else and/or split up the data.
I'll be honest, I thought this was really silly at first from scrolling through the linked blog post but when working in a significantly different timezones as I have in the past (12 hours), this could be pretty convincing. It might be hard to sell my team on something called "weet" but I'm going look through the privacy policy and I might actually give this a try...
Absolutely! Thanks for the feedback. I use it daily to communicate with teammates across the US as well as Europe and Africa. And it has kept us all on the same page.
Do you think the new administration will have an impact on immigration and if so, what do you think will change?
My wife and I have been waiting since July on an update to her K1 adjustment of status. Some of that is COVID related issues, but I suspect some of the delay is due to additional processing of the new requirements (e.g. I-944).
Create a ___domain on gandi.net (or possibly some other provider, been a gandi customer over a decade so that's what I know) create an email on your new ___domain. Then whenever you need an email for a service create an email alias and point it to your "real" email. This is precisely what I do.
They have an API, you could also automate this, I intend to create a script to create the alias but just have never gotten around to it.
The Console hides/obfuscates some things, w/ Terraform how resources are linked and work together become much more clear.