RapperWhoMadeIt

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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
Regarding the profitability, the founder discusses in other posts, that they get the bulk of their revenue from their API (they also have some cash flow coming from ads). I think he was for a while bootstrapping, and then got some VC fundin
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
The founder has some really informative and very detailed articles, e.g. this one about being rejected after his YC interview. https://www.listennotes.com/blog/my-y-combinator-interview-e... It's interesting to re
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
I have this friend who recently founded a start-up with two other guys. But he basically is the only one doing any DevOps, so we could say he is a one-man show regarding the technology side of things. Two weeks ago we talked about how he is
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
I literally set up some GitHub actions today for the first time in my life, I was really pumped about getting into the CI/CD game with my latest open repository. A couple of hours ago everything was going great, running a workflow need
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
Without a doubt some of the oldest programs that can be found in the Unix ecosystem, e.g. grep, rsync, wc, tr and so many more. If you have ever done some shell scripting, you know how valuable and well conceived this programs are. So I thi
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply! :) So thinking from a business development standpoint, would it just make sense to go for FaaS if one knows that the average traffic of the application will remain below this mark (20qps)? And for an applicati
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
Yes! Exactly that is what I am wondering, where the intersection might be. It would be nice to see that in a plot. Thanks for the reply!
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
I mean, instead of running your code with FaaS, you deploy it in microservices, taking care yourself of running it in containers and all the container orchestration. So, yes, microservices was probably not the right term, I meant compared t
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Ask HN: When does serverless become more expensive than microservices?
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
Although I majored in CS, talking a political science course in college made me realize that having some fundamental knowledge of data science, statistics and, in general, effective 'data crunching' habilities (call it numpy, matl
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by RapperWhoMadeIt 5y ago
I am obsessed with "The Linux Programming Interface" by Michael Kerrisk. I highly recommend this book if you want to level up your C programming skills and knowledge of Unix operating systems (specially portability and Linux). It