Samuel Anyaele

@AlterEgoFAN @tonycartman1 @UNESCO So what is being sought is not actually equality, so remind me again why men should help you achieve this inverse.

@tonycartman1 @UNESCO Come back to them with this question a decade after the remaining important gaps have been successfully dealt with. So, until women have outnumbered men in every desirable aspect of academia, and it has been that way for at least a decade, there will be no interest in men, sadly

Women now outnumber men in higher education globally. Yet important gaps remain. Women continue to be underrepresented at doctoral level and hold only around one quarter of senior leadership positions in academia. Progress is real, but achieving equality in leadership, research and decision-making remains essential. 👉 More insights in @UNESCO’s Higher Education Global Trends Report: unesco.org/en/articles/nu…

@blueline7812 @majorlouwe @n6oflife6 @Frenzeblogger Maths is still the base

@majorlouwe @n6oflife6 @Frenzeblogger Yeah, I wan talk the same thing but as I see this ur comment, I rest my case. Physics is more logical and spiritual dan maths. I remember my days in school as elect elect engr, circuit, control Engr, power etc wasn't a child play. We do advanced calculus but e no dey worry 👇

Alex Onyia started a successful Maths Olympiad in SE Nigeria. 11,500 young children participated in the Maiden Event in 2026. Once he announced that he’s targeting 120,000 kids in 2027 Instead of the Tinubu govt to reach out to him to Upscale This Initiative into other regions. the Minister for Education Tunji Alausa mysteriously announced a Law that Passing Maths is no Longer Required to Enter Uni in Nigeria. 🤣🤣🤣

@CoderCarl @_andrewthecoder I have never seen OPs posts before, but anyone who has been in the industry over 20 years cannot have JS as primary tech stack. Do you know what JS was doing 20 years ago?!

@_andrewthecoder Your issue is probably your primary tech stack is JavaScript/web. So you’re essentially competing with children who also use that tech stack. I know plenty of devs your age with no issue getting jobs but they use a grown up tech stack, C and C++ and system programming, no kids.

I got an email from a company earlier today (rejection of course). And just as a joke (cuz I didn't figure anyone would monitor the email), I responded something like, "yeah you don't want an old guy with a quarter century of software engineering experience!" Within like 5 minutes, I got an email back saying that they are not allowed to consider my age, my rejection was because the [system] (they didn't say whether it was ATS or AI) stated that I was basically an intern level candidate. (keep in mind, the last 13 years of my career has been me working for myself and running business)!

@Math_files Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second one, half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. And so on... The bar man says "you're all idiots" and pours two beers.

@jayhemz Interestingly enough complicated joins (or badly formed joins) will bring any relational DB to its knees. Pushing you to solutions like Replica sets that are nightmares for any existing stored procedures, don't even get me started on sharding options for MSSQL!

This is the major reason why we need to purge the tech space of rodents like this guy: techies who just know soundbites but lack substance. I asked a simple question, "what can you possibly do that you think can stress a DB?" He gave the below retort; uneducated, per usual. Let's take MSSQL that many people are familiar with. That's a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that is built to handle high concurrency enterprise-grade systems. In terms of transactions, you can get up to 1 million transactions per second (TPS) with MSSQL. But the real factors that determine the number of transactions a DBMS can handle are things like: 1. CPU cores and speed 2. RAM (buffer pool size matters enormously) 3. Storage I/O (NVMe vs spinning disk is night and day) 3 Query design and indexing So in terms of transactions ceiling, hardware is first, followed by your indexing and related configs, before it even gets to the DBMS engine. I ask this dolt again, what can you possibly do that will stress the average DBMS, unless of course you're still using Pentium 1? So far, everyone who says I don't know what I'm talking about has been found out to NOT know what they're talking about.

@Akintola_steve However, most real world deployments today, even for enterprises would be cloud-first. Completely nuking any advantages.

@sanyaele Because I’ve used MSSQL so I really know how powerful it is

On this whole “writing your logic in the database” conversation, let me explain something because I’ve seen a lot of takes lately and many people genuinely don’t understand where this approach came from. Back then, I used to write crazy amounts of business logic directly in SQL because the company I worked for had clients heavily operating in fintech and telecoms. We handled transactions, rollbacks, reconciliation, batching, validations, settlement processing, audit checks and lots more directly inside stored procedures. You’d have multiple SQL functions calling other functions, all orchestrated inside deeply transactional stored procedures. Then the application layer simply called those procedures. Even scheduled jobs, retry mechanisms, settlement batching, nightly reconciliation and cleanup tasks were written directly in SQL Server jobs. I was using Microsoft SQL Server then. And honestly? Those systems were insanely stable. Very few random inconsistencies. Very few partial write problems. Very strong transactional guarantees. Because the database itself enforced the integrity. People today underestimate how powerful relational databases actually are. Many enterprise systems especially old banking, fintech and telecom systems treated the database as part of the application itself. And to be fair, there were advantages to that approach. But acting like putting business-critical transactional logic closer to the database is automatically “bad engineering” just tells me you’ve probably never worked on large legacy enterprise systems before. Some of those systems have been processing millions of transactions reliably for over a decade while many modern stacks are still rediscovering consistency problems the database world solved years ago.

@kapilansh_twt I use GitHub Actions Secret, store the whole .env file as env_file

what's the actual best practice here

how do teams actually share .env variables securely because the options I see are - Slack DM (terrible) - email (worse) - shared Notion doc (somehow even worse) - 1Password or similar - something I'm missing

@PrebsTamar @NugarRahman @segun_os_ With the software and infrastructure facilities to manipulate and deploy code as we have today, there is no engineering, HR, economic, or even common sense advantage to putting logic in the DB

@PrebsTamar @NugarRahman @segun_os_ I don't think anyone is under estimating the size of the company you worked in. However, it's such a dated system that worked the best when scaling was mostly vertical, so you keep throwing more RAM and storage at a system that continues to bloat as requirements evolve.

I agree with all you've said but you've not answered the question my boss. what exactly is the benefit in moving your business logic to the database layer? is it increased throughput? lower latency? security? if you're not able to quantifiably justify an engineering decision then you've done rubbish.

@segun_os_ That's what people don't get. Logic in DB was from an era when scaling was mostly vertical. With today's loosely coupled interdependent systems that scale independently based on requests, logic in DB becomes liability, instead of asset it was when code was deployed on MS Servers

too much idea want to finish you people on this twitter. some people are writing their business logic in their dBs 😂 how do you handle horizontal scaling, sharding and replication? how do you ensure a highly available system if your business logic is tightly coupled-

@echo_vick @programmer_ke Oracle certified ..., MSSQL certifications etc

@programmer_ke Was "Database Vendor" a thing?😂

I once worked with a senior backend engineer who believed that the strongest backend systems were the ones where logic is written more on the database layer than on the code layer. The normal if-else statement you would write to check a users balance, bro writes all that logic directly on the DB, there were triggers, database functions etc. Bro was literally coding with SQL. At that point I didn’t know SQL could even do all that. Bro would review my code then and ask me why was I writing all that logic in code when it could reside directly on the db😂. This was way before AI and bro would prefer to write every single thing by hand rather than install a package, he felt they were not secure. Bro uses a framework just to repurpose it and customize everything! At The point working with bro, he was almost 40. Man! I’ve worked with cracked devs, and I’m grateful for every experience that has shaped me.

@echo_vick Your senior backend engineer might not be very senior with modern distributed systems or their infrastructure. That you can, doesn't mean you should, at least in most cases.

@TosinOlugbenga DB scalability becomes the bottleneck.

A skilled SQL engineer can build almost an entire backend inside the DB. That’s why some backend engineers see application code as merely a transport layer. PostgreSQL alone is practically an application platform now. When you build your logics in the DB, you are optimizing for: 1. data integrity 2. transactional consistency 3. performance 4. security This approach is good for banking and financial applications.

@Dajoka16 @beINSPORTS_EN @CarrieBrownTV @WestHam A ball he already touched with all the impediments?

@beINSPORTS_EN @CarrieBrownTV @WestHam Raya was never catching that ball at that height. Ref saved Arsenal.

🗣️ "Everybody involved in football lost a little bit of perception what is or is not a foul - that's why we are upset." Nuno Espirito Santo speaks to @CarrieBrownTV following @WestHam's dramatic defeat to Arsenal. #beINPL #WHUARS #WHUFC

@AuralAbuse @beINSPORTS_EN @CarrieBrownTV @WestHam The line has to be drawn somewhere, how much is too much. With the variety of factors at play it becomes an incredibly hard line to draw.

@beINSPORTS_EN @CarrieBrownTV @WestHam I'm a West Ham fan, and that is a foul. That isn't the issue here. It's the fouls that happen all year, Arsenal probably commit them in corner situations more than anyone. All or none should be given. Treating one foul differently than another is the actual issue.

@ok6ixx Humanity of the travelling umbrella

I borrowed an umbrella from my Airbnb host in Kyoto. I forgot to return it when I checked out, and realized when I was already on the train to Osaka. I felt terrible. It was a nice umbrella, not a cheap one. I messaged the host apologizing. She responded: "No problem! Enjoy the umbrella. It's yours now." I said I'd mail it back. She said "please don't. Postage costs more than an umbrella. Just use it and think of Kyoto when it rains." I insisted I wanted to return it. She said "okay, but I have a different idea. Next time you see someone who needs an umbrella and doesn't have one, give them this umbrella. Tell them to do the same when they are finished with it. Maybe an umbrella travels all around Japan helping people." That idea was so beautiful I agreed. Two weeks later I was in Hiroshima and it started pouring. A woman with a baby was standing under an awning looking stressed. No umbrella, the baby was crying. I walked over and gave her the umbrella. Told her the story in broken Japanese. She understood enough. She tried to refuse but I insisted. Told her "when you're done with it, give it to someone else who needs it." She nodded, said thank you about ten times, and hurried off with her baby. I got soaked walking back to my hotel but felt good about it. Sometimes I wonder where that umbrella is now. Hope it's still traveling, still helping people.

Which means that the outlier companies who need these specializations would most likely not be able to get it from that pool. So what do you do, *build your own pipeline*! Devote substantial budget to training and upskilling, even when you don't see how it adds to the bottomline

You strengthen the muscles you use the most, this applies to the brain too. If your training and job are all API provisioning and securing, even if you get certifications for a certain specialization, unless you actually use it for work, you are bound to loss that knowledge.

@Saniswayn1 @Chizitere_xyz @karenkelechi_ @odwayaa So between a man trying to kill you and a bear trying to kill you vs a nice dude strolling in the woods and a nice bear strolling in the woods ...

@Chizitere_xyz @karenkelechi_ @odwayaa I see where you are coming from with this take but whats the actual premise of the question? Is the man trying to kill you or he is just a nice dude strolling in the woods? If its the later, then of course Everyone would take the man.

The risk assessment in this "bear vs man" discourse is fundamentally broken, and watching women confidently choose the bear is peak internet delusion. Y'all will meet up with anonymous Tinder matches every weekend, leave clubs with strange men just because they drive a luxury car, go home with celebrities from backstage, and voluntarily date literal drug lords. You take massive, unchecked risks with strange men every single day. But drop you in a hypothetical forest, and suddenly a man is more dangerous than a 600lb apex predator just so you can win a gender war argument? The performative IQ is completely in the mud. Please rest.