DEV Community: Jared Silver

As an individual engineer, what do you look for in a manager?

Jared Silver — Sat, 04 May 2019 15:07:13 +0000

You're an individual contributor, and you've just been informed that you'll have the opportunity to choose your next engineering manager.

What are the most important qualities you would look for?

What would be the biggest deal-breakers?

What sort of person would you ideally hope to find?

How do you populate your development databases?

Jared Silver — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:45:19 +0000

For small projects, it's very easy -- if not always good practice -- to grab a copy of the production database and save it locally for use in development.

However, as a project grows, this becomes increasingly more time consuming and increasingly more unsafe (as individual team members should probably not be walking around with tons of actual user data on their local machines).

Further, for organizations that are open source, it certainly doesn't make sense to freely distribute copies of production data to anyone who wants it.

So, my question to you is this: how do you populate your development databases?

What do you use for full-text search these days?

Jared Silver — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:44:20 +0000

Hi folks!

I'm currently researching various options for a full-text search implementation. I'm building it for a Rails app using Postgres, but I'm also curious in general: what are you using for full-text search these days?

Thanks a bunch!