bluepeter

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by bluepeter 9y ago
Hi folks: I spent the last few months working on this. The backend is about 40 Lambda functions. I even wrangled headless Chrome into a Lambda function, and preserve state (cookies, local storage) across multiple pages. Any feedback (or que
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by bluepeter 9y ago
> In fact, if you have stateless services, then I'd be inclined to consider skipping microservices altogether and consider using a serverless model. What? Isn't a serverless model necessarily a microservices solution?
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by bluepeter 9y ago
It's probably not as easy as that. Lambda functions run in a container. If you have a spike in traffic, you may have 10 different containers handling requests. So should they keep 1 container always up, or 3, or 10. I suppose you could
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by bluepeter 9y ago
They do for me. It's basically free to fire a function every 5 minutes, have the function immediately close, and have that Lambda container sit around for another ~10 minutes "hot" and waiting for a real request to handle.
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by bluepeter 9y ago
> Cold starts. This isn’t the time to dive in deep, but it’s a main reason why some companies decided against going Serverless. Cold starts as an issue? I mean, all you have to do is create a CloudWatch event (or cron if you want an expl
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Ignore their spammy emails? Per their VP, they are totally going to up their game and inject their "notifications" in your everyday Web traffic. https://twitter.com/jlivingood/status/939848009386549248
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Comcast VP suit isn't helping his cause much on Twitter https://twitter.com/jlivingood/status/939248407562080261 Oh and of course he's also retweeting a lovely Net Neutrality tweet... https://
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by bluepeter 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/7dvqjd/peopl...
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Open range is a thing in the Western US too.
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by bluepeter 9y ago
We offer “full page” rendering using PhantomJS (soon to be headless Chrome) for Versionista, a competing product. It works rather well, but it introduces its own set of problems... eg you need timers to ensure all the AJAX calls have comple
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by bluepeter 9y ago
That’s exactly what we use for a competing product. The difficulty is less in the crawling, and more in the scheduling and difference visualization (including filters). Presenting salient results without a ton of false positives is hard wor
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by bluepeter 9y ago
It’s posaible to do this for SPAs, yes. We use PhantomJS for rendering JavaScript at Versionista... soon we will swap to headless Chrome.
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Hey, I run Versionista ( https://versionista.com ) and we offer PDF change tracking and visualization.
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Although, we could create a machine learning plugin that uses a cloud service to detect Kite-infected plugins? ;)
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Bottom of the Kite web site I find this tell: "Made with [love emoji] in San Francisco"
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Yeah of course, but they don't provide Stripe-like subscriptions (i.e., recurring payments). Ali just made a deal with Stripe, so maybe ultimately Stripe is the best bet.
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by bluepeter 9y ago
What payment service do you use for subscriptions? I'm in Shanghai and nothing like Stripe (yet) here... without that infrastructure, it makes it tough.
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by bluepeter 9y ago
Where's Ariya in all this? He seems to have also completely abandoned Phantom...?