WillieBKevin

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by WillieBKevin 12y ago
Good points. Keep in mind the OP is talking about a 14x multiple of annual run rate, rather than trailing 12. He's calculating annual run rate as 12x his most recent month. Considering it's a quickly growing company, if he were ca
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by WillieBKevin 13y ago
Rob, best of luck to you and the Twilio team while fixing and recovering from this incident. We've been with Twilio for years and have received excellent service. Billing issues are always serious, but its nothing compared to a call r
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by WillieBKevin 13y ago
I see your point about growth, but I disagree over the term bootstrap. I interpret bootstrap to be about external investment. Its possible to have a high-growth company (a "startup"), that receives no investment, or receives inv
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by WillieBKevin 13y ago
I second the vote for Blue Box. We moved from Heroku 8 months ago and have been extremely happy. I agree with grrrando, there were a few instances of slow responses during setup, but I also agree thats because you're talking to an individu
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
The Humanscale switch mouse works well for a hybrid vertical / standard mouse. http://www.humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=... I use one daily and really like it, although its made of cheap plastic. The $99 list price is
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
Here's a discussion about that point in the original article's comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5216553 The conclusion is that it will buy you a bit more time, but does not fix the underlying issue. In Rap Genius' case, they'
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
Wonder how all of these people are feeling right now.. http://success.heroku.com/
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
We're with bluebox.net and have been very happy.
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
It is quite an accusation, but I'm far from a bystander in this issue. I have extensive, documented communication with Heroku engineers over the course of 1.5 years (Feb 2011 - June 2012). I'm not discussing any sort of cooked up statistic
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
"Forgetting who is right and wrong" The right vs wrong issue here is not the proper way to architect a router. The issue is that Heroku glossed over an extremely important aspect of their engineering documentation, because it painted their
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
I had a string of similar requests with Heroku between Feb 2011 and June 2012, before we migrated off their platform. I would complain about h12 errors, they would tell me to upgrade my resources and/or that it was my problem and there was
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by WillieBKevin 14y ago
We moved our Twilio app off Heroku for the same reasons. Extensive optimizations and we would still get timeouts on Twilio callbacks. The routing dynamics should be explained better in Heroku's documentation. From an engineering perspecti