AlexITC

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by AlexITC 3y ago
> Doing it with rust - especially cross compiling from mac to linux - is relatively painful I have used cargo-dist and the process is quite smooth, it could be worth giving it a try.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
> I think I would use Ansible to setup the servers and use it for the deployment script as well. I do use ansible but I'm reconsidering whether it is worth it, while my scripts have barely changed in the last 7 years, they tend to b
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by AlexITC 3y ago
The author focuses on simplicity, he tries to handle everything with a single file for the app + a single file for the database. Unnecessary overhead gets introduced with docker, for example, now you need to depend on a container-registry +
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Go for it! It isn't as complex as it seems, then, you can decide whether it is worth it. One advantage from DO is the regular backups. Like you said, you can go for executing docker compose on the server if you want to do it fast.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
I do the same, a VM per app, unless it's about static websites which I can host so many on a single VM.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
I run a setup that's very similar to the author's one, but, I run postgres. For a simple setup, postgres maintenance is practically null.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
The way I do it is to set the `EnvironmentFile` entry in the service definition. I'd guess that the author's idea is that if someone gains access to the server, the secrets would be either dumped from the binary or the environment
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Rate limiting and caching is another big advantage, setting it up with nginx is a piece of cake, setting it up in the app, not so much.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
We are on the same boat, my ansible scripts have barely changed in the past 7 years, still, I have been wondering about getting rid of ansible for simple scripts to handle everything, the main reasons being speed and simplicity (1 file vs m
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Let's see whether hn works again as the support channel for Stripe just like it did yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403607 Good luck.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
I don't see much advantage from Kotlin unless you are stuck with an old jdk (like the one from Android), still, the latest jdk is still far away from current Scala.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Scala stdlib is considerably better than the one from Kotlin, one detail I dislike about Kotlin collections is that `map` invocations always result in a List.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
I think we need more simple alternatives like this, https://javalin.io/ is another project I have been following which looks simpler to me. In any case, thanks for sharing.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
It's worth sharing Scala.js which has https://github.com/PurpleKingdomGames/tyrian , an ELM-insired library for the UI.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Yes, I work with many small businesses where K8s/Containers are overkill. I have also helped to remove K8s from companies that were experiencing painful points with it, these companies are know very happy with plain-old VMs where their
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by AlexITC 3y ago
A few years ago, I used to run and maintain a block explorer that indexed Bitcoin mainnet, in the end, this turned out to be a ~2 TB database which was too expensive to host on any managed database, hence, I ended up running it on the same
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Sharing our default settings for GitHub repositories(wiringbits.net)
1 points by AlexITC 3y ago|0 comments
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by AlexITC 3y ago
This, I have seen a tendency in increased scam schemas since the pandemic started.
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Tell HN: Be aware of people trying to scam contractors
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Not sure if others are aware, there is an Esoteric language called Taxi ( https://esolangs.org/wiki/Taxi ).
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Hi everybody, from time to time, there are some mentions about Scala on hn, there are many users who have shared their bad experiences when dealing with sbt a long time ago, while sbt is considerably better, we now have a simpler alternativ
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Replacing sbt with Scala-CLI in a simple project(wiringbits.net)
2 points by AlexITC 3y ago|1 comments
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by AlexITC 3y ago
FYI: The shared link is private, this seems to be the correct one https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3593434928/
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by AlexITC 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE We are a small development company based on Chicago/Mexico, our customers usually get to us due to emergencies, missed deadline, product with happy path broken, broken infrastructure, etc. - We got available becau
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Unfortunately, not all teams are capable of doing what you can do. For example, I have worked with teams who have lots of hardcoded details that prevent the app to work in multiple environments.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
> Gotcha, true. I think you're doing yourself a disservice by including compile times (mostly out of your control) in your answer to "How long does each preview environment take to deploy?" This is a very good point I have
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by AlexITC 3y ago
> Uhh... that's really slow. What is CodePreview doing to make it take that long? Building everything from source can take a while for some projects, for example, Scala/Rust. In our case, most of the projects we have integrated
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Thanks, it certainly helps. You have reminded about a comparison chart we are drafted but never published.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
We can certainly compare these apps because there is some overlap, for example: 1. Netlify/Vercel handle production deployments while codepreview does not. 2. Netlify/Vercel have many more features than codepreview, still, codepre
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by AlexITC 3y ago
> what's the backend for Code Preview? This is an interesting question, the codepreview integration can operate without a backend, in fact, some existing integrations work this way. Still, a backend helps to: 1. Distribute the neces

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