I'm not sure if you are trolling, but you left out the actual transform. In my experience, XSLT feels optimized towards transforms, which most other languages aren't. I also dislike XSLT, but whenever I do things like this in Python, C# or C++ it tends to get more messy then my XLTS when the transforms are nontrivial.
Okay, so what am I supposed to use if I want to transform a XML file from one format to another because two different systems needs XML for input /output and they have different fixed formats?
This is just an incorrect assumption in my opinion. Say you are running on Microsoft Azure for example. There are no uptime SLA unless you run your service on at least two machines, because machines needs to reboot, be upgraded etc.
Also, if you take a look at perf when running PG on for example Azure or EC2, you will realize that IO is pretty slow but nodes are cheap. So you want to scale out early.
Running stuff on a single machine sounds like a perfect single point of failure to me. The actual size of the data does not affect wheter single point of failures are acceptable in a business.
I've seen so many people recommend PGSQL, saying its very simple, but when actually asked about how to set up a simple cluster which fulfills the absolutely basic requirements, then everyone just responds somethin similar to what you wrote. I find it very annoying to be honest.
Tell me how to set up a PG cluster where nodes can come and go as they like (for example without the need to reseed databases when they come online) in less than 30 minutes.
The last two times there was a big issue the same thing happened with the status dashboard (it became inaccessible). I remember the same issue when the certs expired 1,5 years ago. I really like Microsoft and was convinced "you" would somehow isolate the dashboard and host it separately, but it turns out I was wrong. Do you happen to know the reasons for hosting the status dashboard inside of Azure? It seems so counter-intuitive to me. Or is it actually hosted externally but died due to the load when the issue started to appear?
The OP mentions that Microsoft representatives gave info via public forums. When the issue appeared I looked in different places trying to find info, but only I found was a statement saying that We are aware of issues. I looked at Azure twitter/blog, ScottGu twitter/blog, Hanselmans, MSDN forums. I also tried this forum and reddit. Do you know where I should have gone to receive details?
What I've seen from their patching of ordinary machines, I would say its pretty far from controlled or well thought through. Their patching has led to our machines becoming unavailable before, despite that we have multiple machines in the same availability set. We've been in contact with support to describe what happens and have gotten an Oh, its by design-response back.
Just apply same buggy network patch to all DCs at once? They use software networking so causing something like this should be easy. Or mess up network routing for *.blob.core.windows.net which pretty much all of Azure relies on.
It's not SQL Server, it's SQL Database. There are many large differences between the two.
A 50GB database with 10GB of RAM usage and 2 cores costs 700USD/Mo with SQL Database. This is replicated twice within DC. Double that price if you want georedundancy. Their entry level costs less but is also unusable for most real applications
I visited the site on my Windows Phone 8.1, and the page is rendered incorrectly. There's white text on white background, different text sections overlapping eachother, columns being one word wide and lot of more things. According to other comments here, it is unusable on iphone and broken on android as well. According to issues in their tracker, it does not work on Windows 8/Firefox and Ubuntu/Firefox.
It also renders incorrectly on Chrone om Windows 8 (on my laptop, at least).
If you're creating a new CSS framework, publish it and fail to mention that it's work in progress and it only works on a limited set of platforms (like what), you have wasted my time.
I really hope developers doesn't expect to only get constructive feedback when doing something like that.
I've been writing c++ on and off since Visual Studio 6. I would be glad to see it move faster. I don't have to learn all esoteric things - I can pick and use parts which I like, such as auto, for-each, smartptr, lambdas and so on. There was a version 2003 and then C++11. Almost a decade later. How can that possibly be too fast?
I generate a one-time card number for each online purchase. Only valid for a specific time and up to a specific account. Supporter by some banks. Pretty good solution in my opinion.