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My wife and I made this site to make it easier to find tech-related books. It's fairly simple so far and more features are planned. I'm submitting early on to
by thibaut_barrere 16y ago
My wife and I made this site to make it easier to find tech-related books.
It's fairly simple so far and more features are planned.
I'm submitting early on to get some wider feedback. Thanks to all the HNers that reviewed this before today already!
- sgruhier 16y agoVery useful and damn fast!
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoAs quite a few have asked via the comment form: it's a nginx + passenger + ruby 1.9.2 stack, with solr for indexing, mongodb for data back-end, rails fragment caching in redis, and a warmup script to fill the caches.
- rapind 16y agoThat's a great stack. Any reason you went with Redis for the caching instead of memcached?
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoWell I'm more used to Redis, as I've used more than a couple of times with Resque (job processing in Ruby). I started the crawler behind HackerBooks with Resque and Redis, but ended up saving some RAM by going back to a simple daemon. I reused Redis to provide the caching. So well: I mostly used what I was used too.
- rapind 16y agoDefinitely makes sense if you're already using Redis for something else.
- albedoa 16y agoSweet domain name. Did you have to shell out a lot for it?
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoI spent a bit of time on that, I must admit :) In the end I paid 90$ for 3 years, which is OK I guess.
- hessenwolf 16y agoon that note, hackertext, hackermenu, hackerledger, hackerconventions, hackerelite, hackerplans, hackermanifest, hackerstatement, hackerplay, hackersection, hackervolumes, etc... all seem to be free. (shameless plug for nametoolkit.com - downvote me if you wish ;))
- taylorbuley 16y agoThose who code together, stay together! Or was it the opposite?
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoWe're going to work together on a SAAS product and became associates (after moving to the countryside). Wish us luck :) (and communication, it's needed :-)
- TobiasCassell 16y agoThank you for building this. I admire the simplicity and elegance. Would be cool if the "Mentioned 2 times at Hackernews" was hyperlinked to the mention. Can this be done?
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoIt will totally be done :) Next iteration will be on making the navigation better, so that you can click on everything that's possible.