Location: Iran

Remote: Open to hybrid and in person

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Backend and Platform Engineer, Golang, Python, PHP, Django, Fast API, Laravel, Temporal, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI, Postgres, Mysql

Résumé/CV: https://shayansm2.github.io/resume/

Email: shayan.shafiee.moghadam+hn@gmail.com

I was introduced to Local First while watching this conference by Martin Kleppmann (the author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications book): https://martin.kleppmann.com/2023/06/29/goto-amsterdam.html. It's worth watching!

> In some sense, external orchestration turns individual applications into distributed microservices, with all the complexity that implies.

While I'm not entirely convinced by the notion that distributed microservices inherently increase complexity, I do see significant benefits in how they empower workflows that span multiple projects and teams. For instance, in Temporal, different workers can operate in various programming languages, each managing its own specific set of activities within a single workflow. This approach enhances communication and collaboration between diverse projects, allowing them to leverage their unique tech stacks while still working together seamlessly.

I found this helpful https://brilliant.org/wiki/lambda-calculus/

a good source for implementing b-tree using golang: https://build-your-own.org/database/04_btree_code_1

Happy New Year, everyone! I’m incredibly grateful for this amazing community. Your informative posts and insightful comments have taught me so much, and I truly appreciate all of you. Here's to another year of learning and growth together!

https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/ for understanding how bloom filters work

Some might say that PHP is dead (and I’d be one of them too), but there is a PHP kingdom on the map! :) I think we might have all been mistaken.

I don't think anyone has ever seriously suggested PHP is dead. People may want it to be dead, but it's probably still the most-used language on the web!

Sorry, not sorry—PHP is alive, and thriving! The language runtime is getting ever faster, the packagist ecosystem in combination with composer (PHP's package manager) are rock-solid, there are event loops and application servers by now, serverless deployments are the default operation mode, and with Laravel or Symfony, there are trusted and extremely versatile frameworks available that do stuff out of the box that require lots of manual efforts with other languages.

Add to that the support for type annotations that can go all the way from fully untyped and dynamic, to runtime-enforced primitive constraints and object types, and you'll end up with a very good choice for web applications that evolve quickly.