New chapter: run things locally

content/books/things-i-learnt/_index.md

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 		* [Always Use UTF-8 For Your Strings](use-utf8)
 		* [Optimization Is For Compilers](optimization)
 		* [Units Makes Things Clear](units)
+		* [If It Doesn't Run On Your Computer, You Have A Problem](run-locally)
 	* Making Things Go
 		* [The Config File Is Friend](config-file)
 		* [Command Line Options Are Weird, But Helpful](command-line-options)

content/books/things-i-learnt/config-file/index.md

@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ you'll find that you're half-way through it.
 [^1]: In other words, they have a [time to
   live](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live).
 
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content/books/things-i-learnt/run-locally/index.md

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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - If It Doesn't Run On Your Computer, You Have A Problem"
+date = 2019-07-18
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "local run", "cloud"]
++++
+
+I've seen a lot of systems that would never run on a isolated computer, like
+the developer tool, 'cause the system requires running on a specialized
+environment. Those things are wrong.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+Requiring a specialized environment absolutely kills productivity.
+
+If your system will run on a specialized environment -- and I'm including "the
+cloud" here -- look for something that can abstract whatever you're using. For
+example, if you're using AWS SQS, which is a queue, look for a library that
+can abstract the way a queue works so you can also run with RabbitMQ, which
+can be easily run on your own computer.
+
+If you're using a very specialized thing, you may have to write the
+abstraction yourself, isolating it from the main system, so you can develop
+the main product in peace.
+
+One of the most productivity killer environment I worked require running the
+project on a customized Apache installation, running the client specialized
+framework. The whole problem is that the client refused to allow us to not use
+it or install on our local machines (mostly 'cause the install of said
+framework was really complex). In other for us to work and see things working,
+we had to use a VPN to the client computers, develop things there and manually
+forcing things to reload. No only we had absolutely nothing to do when the VPN
+was down ('cause it require out company infrastructure working hand-in-hand
+with the client infrastructure and the internet provider infrastructure, which
+is absolutely impossible), the flow was really cumbersome.
+
+If we had the chance to not use it and run all the development and tests on
+our own computers, I have the feeling we could deliver the product 2-3 months
+earlier.
+
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content/books/things-i-learnt/units/index.md

@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ That's why adding units to the function or parameters make sense. It removes
 the ambiguity of what it means and doesn't rely on some specialized IDE/Editor
 that display the parameter names.
 
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