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Ask HN: Should a VP of product and engineering be a single person?
1 points by cbono1 4y ago|0 comments
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by cbono1 4y ago
Got it, yea seems this is more valuable in a big data context or when actively pressed up against scale limitations of a DB deployment. Funny on the the last piece as well - appreciate the thoughts here!
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by cbono1 4y ago
Thanks for the reply! For the folks you worked with in the past that were excellent, were they full time DBAs in terms of their title? Or were they folks that were in other departments (i.e. devops) that also had expertise in good DB desi
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Ask HN: Is a dedicated DBA a needed role?
2 points by cbono1 4y ago|4 comments
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by cbono1 5y ago
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by cbono1 5y ago
Why would Google and Amazon be on the downdetector list or experiencing issues? Don't they have their own DNS / nameservers separate from Akamai?
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by cbono1 5y ago
Thanks for the additional context here. I think some of the administrative pain can come from having a 'sandbox' or 'qa' tier beyond dev (which in this case would be customer facing) before production. If data separatio
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by cbono1 5y ago
Would this break down if you had 10 customers that would prefer the slow channel of release, but each had their own ever so slightly different desired release pace or training requirements?
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by cbono1 5y ago
Got it - that clarifies it.
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by cbono1 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! Was the beta channel that you had in the pipeline for prod? i.e. prod would have no chance of getting ahead of beta because prod was always deployed based on what was last on the beta release? Hot or bug fixing is an int
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by cbono1 5y ago
In your comment here, what's the distinction of advanced vs. a regular feature flag?
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by cbono1 5y ago
Thanks for the reply - yea these are great points to consider and raised a few of them. Ideally rollouts benefit all customers, and the concern is that there is some possibility that something might not jive with them and they want the abil
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by cbono1 5y ago
Would you have the staging environment share data with production or have its own infrastructure? or use feature gating? One customer may not care that it shares the same DB, but another might. How would this work at scale? say if there wer
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Ask HN: Handling customers that want feature previewing?
56 points by cbono1 5y ago|67 comments
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The best B2B (business to business) products are platforms(chrisbcore.medium.com)
2 points by cbono1 6y ago|0 comments
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by cbono1 6y ago
Most of these seem like fairly weak reasons at this point. Some degree of vendor lock-in is pretty much inevitable no matter what solution you go with. Limited programming languages may have been an issue a few years ago, but with the suppo