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Why Developers Hesitate to Ask for Help at Work?

Kudzai Murimi on December 25, 2024

Hey, Dev Community! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Letโ€™s have a friendly heart-to-heart today. Have you ever been stuck on a bug or a problem at work and hesitated to reach ...
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Hossein Yazdi

Thanks Kudzai! These days with pair programming tools like phind and ZZZ Code AI, people are just way more hesitant to ask actual people :)

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Kudzai Murimi

Yeah and i also think that if 1 fails to ask people sometimes for a better understanding one must be back to the OG Docs and also stackoverflow also helps

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Hossein Yazdi

I used to rely only on Stackoverflow, but these days, I mainly use Phind only.

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Kudzai Murimi

I will try it as well, thanks for sharing

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Hossein Yazdi

You're welcome! ๐Ÿ™‚

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Ravin Rau

It is an interesting take on this article. One thing that stood out to me is the point about psychological safety. Creating an environment where itโ€™s okay to make mistakes is such a stel\; up for teams.

Have you seen examples where a simple change in leadership behaviorโ€”like openly admitting mistakesโ€”helped shift a teamโ€™s culture?

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Kudzai Murimi

Thanks for your kind words and for highlighting the point about psychological safety!

Youโ€™re absolutely right @juniourrau !
creating an environment where itโ€™s okay to make mistakes can be transformative for teams.

For instance, I worked with a team where the manager made it a habit to start meetings by sharing something they learned from a recent mistake. It wasnโ€™t about glorifying failure but normalizing the idea that mistakes are part of growth. Over time, this small gesture created a ripple effect: team members started sharing their challenges and lessons learned more openly.

It was amazing to see how this built trust and encouraged collaboration. Instead of hiding issues, people felt comfortable asking for help, which ultimately led to stronger solutions and a happier team dynamic.

Thanks for the support hey!

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Numan Azad

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insertId: "676b8c300002d898eb78da57"
labels: {1}
logName: "projects/enrollio-portal/logs/stderr"
receiveTimestamp: "2024-12-25T04:38:08.522099059Z"
resource: {2}
severity: "ERROR"
textPayload: "Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:6379
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect as oncomplete {"
timestamp: "2024-12-25T04:38:08.186520Z"
}
getting this error again and again in gcp due to which the cost is going up like crazy. commented out any code that calls for redis or bullmq or any queue related code.
I need to stop this urgent.

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Kudzai Murimi • Edited

Thank you for sharing the details of the error!

It seems like your application is repeatedly attempting to connect to Redis (or a queue system like BullMQ), but the connection is failing, which could be causing a spike in resource usage.

Here are some helpful links you may reffer to and also stackoverflow links with similar issues fixed:

Redis and Queue Management

  1. Redis Official Documentation

    Troubleshooting connection errors and understanding configuration:

    redis.io/docs/

  2. BullMQ Official Documentation

    Managing BullMQ and preventing connection retries:

    docs.bullmq.io/

  3. Node.js Redis Library (ioredis)

    Learn how to handle Redis connection in Node.js:

    github.com/luin/ioredis

Google Cloud Platform Resources

  1. GCP Logging and Monitoring

    Learn to trace and analyze logs for identifying problematic connection calls:

    cloud.google.com/logging/docs

  2. GCP Scaling Instances

    Quickly scale down or stop GCP instances to control costs:

    cloud.google.com/compute/docs/inst...

  3. GCP Cost Management

    Guide on setting budgets and monitoring costs:

    cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-...

General Debugging Help

  1. Stack Overflow: Redis ECONNREFUSED

    Search for similar issues faced by others:

    stackoverflow.com/search?q=Redis+E...

  2. GitHub Issues

    Find relevant threads for Redis or BullMQ connection problems:

    github.com/issues?q=Redis+ECONNREF...

Would love to hear if these steps help resolve it for you! ๐Ÿ˜Š

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Kudzai Murimi

In most cases i prefer to go back to the docs, or check on stackoverflow

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Daniel Chifamba

Relevant and helpful. Thank you for sharing this

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Kudzai Murimi

i am happy that you found the article helpful