I think this really works. While at Datadog, at one point I would write deep dives on monitoring applications like HAProxy, OpenStack and others. I would start with what to look for, how to monitor those things with off-the-shelf tooling, and finally how to do it with Datadog. The response from the community was overall very positive, regardless of whether or not they ended up converting to users (though many did).
This is great. I once worked at a company called Paribus that would argue with customer service to get a refund on your behalf for retailers and credit cards with price drop protection. Wouldn't be surprised to see in the future a more maliciously-tuned bot for things like fraudulently claiming non-delivery of goods.
A couple questions, if you don't mind. How did you go about finding clients? What is the nature of the work agreement—project-based, hourly, or something else?
In the author's defense, a primary usecase is listed in the first graphic under the top paragraph (and the sentence just below the image highlights it).
A bit off topic but I enjoyed reading the bar exam questions you linked and also found that Virginia publishes their answers. For those interested, you can view them by year (the answers also contain the question text): https://barexam.virginia.gov/bar/barsampleanswer.html
We definitely used datadog to monitor internal systems while I was there many years ago. Dogfooding was a celebrated practice and I'd be surprised to learn that it's changed.
That's popsci for you. There is a worthwhile section on slime molds beyond that image but all in all the article was pretty light on details (though links to additional sources are present and appreciated).
exercism.org (no affiliation) is pretty good in that regard, offering a cli to facilitate doing the exercises locally using tools you're already familiar with.
The common theme seems to be a tight feedback loop between developers and customers. Stakeholders acting autonomously is a big flag they called out, too. I would be interested in reading an updated version of this draft if anyone knows of one.
> in the US, I believe states have to meet federal laws, they can't pass a law saying "murder is legal" or whatever. It's an imperfect system, but so is the US system.
Marijuana is illegal at the federal level yet many states have legalized it.