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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
The only aspect of this story which surprises me is that 25% of iOS users opted in to tracking.
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
> That obviously won’t work for an open source project On the contrary - I was an employee at Serverless Inc, working on the Serverless Framework for the last two years, we used this pattern extensively (and very successfully) in our ope
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
Speaking from personal experience, our team wasted far more money tinkering with local dev environments and trying to replicate the cloud than we ever did simply using it to develop. The blog post in the parent comment lays out our experien
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
For AWS specifically, I prefer to have an AWS account specifically dedicated to each service + stage. For example, if I have an image service that handles s3 uploads (say Lambda, S3, Cloudfront and API Gateway), then I'd deploy a &quot
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
Strongly agree, especially when it comes to things like AWS services. Their APIs and services evolve so quickly that things like local mocking (or emulation for local development) is an anti-pattern. Where possible, I prefer to utilize shor
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
Can anyone confirm this information is actually shared? Last month, I went through a background check for a new position which used The Worknumber. Not all data was present & correct (a previous employer was acquired and that goofed som
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
I concur with a lot of what Nader has laid out here. Specialization + Content are keys to unlocking much higher pricing power. Getting started is tricky, but my most profitable side work has been workshops and lunch-and-learns, which is ben
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
The issue is when the ultra-wealthy take out loans against their investment assets (and thus, those unrealized capital gains). By doing that, ultra-wealthy _are_ realizing the value of their investments without being taxed. That's how
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by astuyvenberg 5y ago
This is true of basically all platforms, including every major cloud provider. AWS's playbook can be described as: 1. Provide low level infra 2. Observe what customers build on it 3. Create a general solution and charge a premium for i
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
From other comments, it appears OP is associated with upstash.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Immunotherapy of all kinds is poised to become the revolutionary medicine of our generation. I'm excited to see what Wyndly does in the future!
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Depends on performance. Corey Quinn's article is on point (linked a few comments below)
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Most offers for FAANG companies include salary and stock compensation, that vests over 4 years. So if you were granted 400k in stock over 4 years, you'd get 100k per year in stock (which you can keep or sell, but it's real compens
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Easily AWS
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Precisely - vendor lock-in generally happens at the data level. For example, AWS finally turned off their last Oracle DB server only a year or two ago.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
non paywalled: https://archive.is/n2yra
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Especially if you layer on additional functionality, like triggering a lambda function to resize an image when it hits the S3 bucket.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
When people talk about avoiding vendor lock in with AWS, they tend to talk in terms of using k8s or another compute abstraction layer. But I think the real lock-in lies in services like S3, making so many workflows simple and intuitive (whi
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
S3 may be my favorite AWS product. It's the epitome of "It just works" design.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Thank you for answering my question! I wasn't aware that Apple had a credit card.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
That's a good point! And Privacy.com does offer a product that lets you generate temporary credit cards for this type of thing, which seems like a more elegant solution.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
I'm interested in learning if there are alternative credit cards available that do not track/resell your purchase history. [1] To me, that seems like a major aspect of surveillance economy which can't be easily disrupted by s
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
That is unfortunate, the "call to cancel" dark pattern is so annoying. I hope they do better.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Congrats to the Auth0 team! Their product solves a really tricky, undifferentiated problem that I'm glad I don't have to solve anymore.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
AWS CLI is pretty handy
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Congrats on the launch!
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
I use DynamoDB for most production workloads. With that said, I really miss the ability to run ad-hoc queries against a relational database. Joins can be baked in to DynamoDB for application access patterns - but frequently I (or product&#x
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
Well you have to live somewhere, right? Either buying or renting - unless you can find free room and board (in that case, invest in the stock market instead). I found the NYT rent vs by calculator to be pretty helpful when making this decis
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
This is great for users already on Aurora, but I'd love to make stored procedure calls to Lambda from regular old RDS instances.
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by astuyvenberg 6y ago
The α-gal story is one I continue to enjoy learning about. If you haven't listened to it yet, RadioLab has an excellent episode on the topic: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/alpha..

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