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by alexbouchard 5y ago
This is the way to go and I'd love to see more API's with robust events endpoint for polling & reconciliation. Deletes are especially hard to reconcile with many APIs since they aren't queryable and you need to instance c
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
I partially agree but the issue with relying on the producer delivery is that you effectively give up control on what the retry logic is. If it doesn't fit your use case, too bad for you. While ideally every platform would provide thos
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Totally, things can get very reliable if you start processing webhooks asynchronously. Personally I've found it pretty cumbersome and complicated to build the necessary infrastructure in the past. I've been building https:/&
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Shameless plug but I've built https://hookdeck.com precisely to tackle some of these problems. It generally falls onto the consumer to build the necessary tools to process webhooks reliably. I'm trying to give everyone
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
The design and esthetics of this thing are on point. However, I agree with other comments that the games don't really speak to me, and I've found myself more interested in the pictures of the actual devices than any of the games.
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Something was startling to me to watch those guys shoot the shit. There is a certain etiquette you'd expect from such high profiles. It almost felt like I was an intruder into the conversation, but nonetheless, I really enjoy it.
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Was Starting Twitch a Mistake? – The OnlyFriends Show Ep #6 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by alexbouchard 5y ago|2 comments
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
For me, the real trick is to boil it down to small milestones. Looking too big and too wide at the start of a product makes it feels overwhelming. Your mind (or at least mine) needs practical goals. Create a list of small goals that, when c
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
I'm a startup founder in Canada, and it almost feels like being a second-class citizen in the startup world. I know I know first-world problem... So many of the programs and services aren't available or way more complicated than t
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
I'm pretty stoked for this. Timescale ability to use time series on a subset of tables (hypertables) really makes it an interesting choice. I've just dabbled with it but seeing that they'll finally be improving their hosted s
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
It definitely does and I wonder if there is a larger lesson for other forum / software. We can't seem to be able help ourself and not change things in the name of "improvements" and appart from OSS I can't think of
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
I've put together a website in Webflow just last month and I've been shocked by how convulated and complex it has become. It's obviously making a killing and all the SaaS I know are adopting it but I've been left wanting
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Hi, I'm Alex, co-founder of Hookdeck. We help tech teams build and deploy webhook integrations quickly and seamlessly. About a year and a half ago, I got frustrated by the lack of good tooling and support for webhooks in popular platfo
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Show HN: Use Hookdeck to instantly and reliably manage your webhooks(hookdeck.com)
64 points by alexbouchard 5y ago|8 comments
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
For those of you that aren't in AWS ecosystem or are looking for a simpler alternative to EventBridge we've built https://hookdeck.io . A good chunk of our customers is either Shopify apps or Shopify stores. We essentia
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
I can't say for Diahook but https://hookdeck.io was built for this. (Disc: Co-Founder)
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
Saw that a second too late, sent to contact @
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
Nice work! I'm just glad to see more people in the space and there has been very little pressure on platforms to offer good webhooks, many integrations are pretty barebone and I hope you manage to help with that. We've also been b
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
Is that something you would be interested in a hosted solution for? We've built the infrastructure to deal with incoming webhooks but we've been exploring the idea to also leverage it for dispatching. Turns out the same infrastruc
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
That's essentially it. We've heard from teams having issues dealing with large uncontrollable spikes from their webhook providers and we can smooth out that out. There's additional benefits that can be introduce before it get
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
Great write up. I think you have clearly laid out the things that a newcomer to the space should know about queues. Bookmarked! Talking to a bunch of engineering teams I found that some use case for queues are very generic (almost identical
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
Hookdeck | https://hookdeck.io | Remote | Founding Engineer Hookdeck is looking a founding engineer to join myself (Alex) and Eric. We help developers spend less building and troubleshooting issues with their webhooks to focus o
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
I completely agree with that, we migrated out our analytics database but didn't go through the effort of migrating the production one's. Such a long downtime just seems outrageous none the less...
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by alexbouchard 6y ago
We are using IBM Compose database as a service offering for our production PostgreSQL and Redis hosting. This morning around 6 am (EST) we started getting alerts of failed connection to PSQL. The outage, for production application has been
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IBM Compose deployments have been down for 8 hours(status.compose.com)
8 points by alexbouchard 6y ago|4 comments
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by alexbouchard 7y ago
Been using Clay for some while. It has some nice advantages over Airtable. The developer experience is much nicer with unrestricted row colums, full sql query etc. Does a better job at bridging the gap between technical requirements and bus
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by alexbouchard 7y ago
Well that's if you don't increase efficacy which we are well on our way of doing. This doesn't strike me as such a large issue since "the old" are still consuming and therefore spending capital. Automation and effic