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by alexbilbie 7y ago
Create your Stripe token client side, send it to your API, indicate to the user that the payment is processing. Your backend stores the PCI-compliant Stripe token in a queue which a worker processes as and when it can - therefore allowing y
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Monzo Is Launching in the USA(monzo.com)
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by alexbilbie 7y ago
Popsa | London (ONSITE) | Full-time | Platform Engineer, Android Engineer, Lead Web Application Engineer Popsa is a design-led, engineering focussed company that uses machine learning to help people rediscover their best experiences and tur
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by alexbilbie 8y ago
Thank you so much for writing this. As a software developer with some familiarity with ML concepts and terminology (I’d heard of word2vec for example) I found this post really easy to follow along with.
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by alexbilbie 8y ago
If you're running this regularly (e.g. once an hour) to dump tables the cost of Glue can really add up due a minimum runtime length. We switched to a scheduled Fargate task to dump data from DynamoDB into S3 as parquet files. It's
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by alexbilbie 8y ago
To any British person they will assume Ambrosia are doing blood transfusions with custard
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by alexbilbie 8y ago
A P45 is the official document you receive when you leave employment (fired or not), it isn’t slang for anything though you may be threatened with a P45
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AWS Lambda announces service level agreement(aws.amazon.com)
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by alexbilbie 8y ago
If your DB load is consistent and the cost of serverless outweights standard instance then yes go for a standard instance. However if your DB load is very spiky then serverless Aurora might be cheaper than running an over provisioned instan
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How scammers get away with fraud(theguardian.com)
127 points by alexbilbie 8y ago|71 comments
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by alexbilbie 8y ago
The FCA are very consumer conscious - look at the threats of significant fines towards TSB for just a few days of their app and website being offline.
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New .BOT GTLD from Amazon(aws.amazon.com)
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
The SLA governs availability. Details of durability here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/DataDurabili...
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
What is the durability objects stored with DO? S3 offers 11x9s of durability. Likewise what is the replication story? Can you get event notifications when objects are uploaded/deleted? Is there versioning? Static website hosting? Lifec
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
You can use AWS Certificate Manager to generate a free auto-renewing certificate and associate that with your CloudFront distribution. Will simplify your stack a little by removing the LE step
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
Forgive the self promotion but I'm building a subscription video site - http://stackleap.com/ - to teach people how to build and deploy to AWS infrastructure. The difference between StackLeap and sites like acloud.guru
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
AWS has multiple storage and database offerings so having different product names is helpful
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
Two other well known graph databases are "Janus" and "Titan" both of which are named after ancient gods
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
You could wire this up with a Lambda middleware function: S3 -> Lambda -> AMQ
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Share Options: More Than Just a Lottery Ticket(monzo.com)
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[Monzo] Announcing Our New Investment Round of £71M(monzo.com)
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
Making Tax Digital's aim is to massively simplify tax returns (including VAT returns) for both individuals and businesses. It's whole aim it reduce time it takes dealing with taxes and give a live overview of tax obligations rathe
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
Trade barriers won't really affect digital service companies as they're not moving physical goods around. Digital services are affected by other types of regulation though which won't really change as a result of Brexit (e.g.
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
Popsa | Software Engineer | London | ONSITE Popsa is an e-Commerce startup that uses data to automatically create personalised prints such as photobooks, calendars, posters, canvases, and postcards. Our mobile app is live in 10 languages an
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
You can implement this with a simple auto-scaling group or write a small Lambda function which runs at a certain time to start/stop the instance
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
You can implement basic auth using Lambda@Edge. You could also implement your own non-expiring signed URLs with Lambda@Edge too.
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
1. Food; I love cooking from fresh and find it immensely relaxing 2. Travelling; my partner is a school teacher and has 12 weeks holiday a year, we try to maximise that time by travelling around the world
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Why the Government Shouldn't Break WhatsApp(youtube.com)
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RFC8188 Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP(tools.ietf.org)
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by alexbilbie 9y ago
Judging by the the developer's twitter account it's probably using the APIs used in the banks' mobile apps

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