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Doug FooinGeek CultureHow To Improve Your Job Search With 4 Quick TipsTips on job hunting for tech professionals from someone who has applied to a thousand+ jobs over the past 20 yearsApr 15, 2023Apr 15, 2023
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Doug FooinBetter ProgrammingWeb 3.0 — Building Apps With the Slowest Database in the UniverseHow using a blockchain as a general purpose database is the slowest, least scalable, least private, and most costly solutionAug 1, 20222Aug 1, 20222
Doug FooinBetter ProgrammingA Software Engineers’ Dilemma — To Rewrite or Refactor?When I was young I always wanted to rewrite, then I realized it is not possible, now I wonder again…Jul 4, 2022Jul 4, 2022
Doug FooinCodeXSnowpark — The Databricks Killer?Elastic Python-compute for Machine Learning is coming to Snowflake — it may be a deadly snowstorm for Spark…Apr 12, 20228Apr 12, 20228
