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New comment by giveaccountpls in "Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?"

giveaccountpls — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:06:35 +0000

Yes. The internal services should be doing stuff in bulk and not require too much parallelism. That leaves you with the number of concurrent users, which in b2b apps can be quite low.

New comment by giveaccountpls in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

giveaccountpls — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:45:54 +0000

> Giving up your own personal stake in the process is literally what brings something as beautiful as Phish's music into existence

Unless Page McConnell is creating his music with AI these days, I don't think this point holds.

New comment by giveaccountpls in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

giveaccountpls — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:12:48 +0000

> neurodivergent people in our ecosystem who would trip up on that question just because of how it's framed

If anything, it's neurodivergent interviewers. If I insisted on a different design I'd either ask a question that's not solved by "just use postgres" or follow up with "ok, that would work, but what if ". Just failing a candidate for a correct answer is a prime example of why interviewing is so bad.