Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

This is an awesome article! I like the idea of being more forthcoming with what we don't know. > Containers. I have no idea about how to use Docker or Kubernetes. (Are those related?) I have a vague idea that they let me spin up a separate VM in a predictable way. Sounds cool but I haven’t tried it. > Deployment and devops. I can manage to send some files over FTP or kill some processes but that’s the limit…

Reading this list made me really want to explain the basics of each of those items so as to clear up any misconceptions, or to confirm that, yes, he gets the gist of it. When I try to learn about topics that I'm unfamiliar with, the hardest information to find is "Why is X important?" and "What is the most important thing to know about X?" With those in hand, I'd be able to determine if a deep dive into…

I hope nobody is counting javascript as a functional programming language. You can however write pretty decent functional code in C#. I ported a 10kloc F# codebase to a very alien-looking functional-style C#. The project was processing several hundred thousand dollars woth of transactions per month and the go-live went flawlessly. I have since left the employer but am aware the code is still in production two years later and the C# devs over there almost never had to reach…