How (Not) to Write a Pipeline

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Thomas Figg (tef). "How (Not) to Write a Pipeline." cohost.org, June 2023. Archived at perma.cc/A3V8-NYCM

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let me boldly assert that there are two types of programmer (at least as far as this post is concerned): 1. a programmer who builds something out of message queues and calls it a pipeline 2. a programmer who has had to maintain and operate a type-1 made pipeline although both types of programmer are kept awake by thoughts of code at night, only one of them is on the pager rota. every programmer ge…

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