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by cnj 6y ago
> Once the decision has been made to move their products off of Amazon [...] There is another valid decision: Diversify your channels and sell on multiple platforms. This way, you're not completely dependent on Amazon anymore, but s
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by cnj 6y ago
commercetools | Berlin or Munich, Germany | Software Engineer - Scala | Full-Time, Onsite | https://commercetools.com We're building a cloud-native eCommerce API for large enterprises. We received funding late last year: h
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by cnj 7y ago
> Customers know this, and are often apprehensive about these types of deal negotiations, so they tend to only go through this process if absolutely necessary Unfortunately, for big enterprises, this isn't true. They (as a company,
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by cnj 7y ago
The advice on trying to pick one person per sentence and to keep eye contact with that person was most helpful for me. I either tended to flick between people quickly, or look at one person for a longer period of time.
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by cnj 7y ago
Cool, this looks nice! I'm currently mentoring new tech leads, and I'm using books heavily as a tool. I usually break a book into two or three parts which we discuss and try to apply to our every-day problems. It works quite well.
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by cnj 7y ago
It is allowed to write code on iOS. There are several code editors for iOS https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ios+code+editor and Apple has even published an own app for students to learn coding called Swift Playgrounds https:&#x2F
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by cnj 7y ago
commercetools | Software Engineer - Scala | On-Site | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | https://commercetools.com/careers We combine solving hard tech challenges you’d expect in a Silicon Valley startup with German work/li
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by cnj 7y ago
Nice! If I re-engineered your algorithm correctly, it tries to find the single largest circle within a grid of streets. This, unfortunately doesn't work well for a river that isn't frequently broken up by bridges. E.g. the whole a
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by cnj 7y ago
commercetools | Software Engineer - Scala | On-Site | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | https://commercetools.com/careers We combine solving hard tech challenges you’d expect in a Silicon Valley startup with German work/li
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by cnj 8y ago
commercetools | Software Engineer - Scala | On-Site | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | https://commercetools.com/careers We combine solving hard tech challenges you’d expect in a Silicon Valley startup with German work/li
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by cnj 8y ago
It looks like Amazon and Elastic have maneuvered themselves into a lose-lose situation. Amazon has to invest into an Open-Source fork, probably won't benefit from some of the feature development Elastic will be doing, and won't ge
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by cnj 8y ago
My uncle has implemented version 0.1 of this in his weekend house. Power is cheaper during the night, so he has installed a clock timer that only powers the water heater during the night. It holds enough hot water for two persons to take a
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by cnj 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18689544
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by cnj 8y ago
Congrats on launching! I regularly spend time on developer documentation (just yesterday roughly two hours...). Unfortunately, your messaging does not resonate with me at all. Creating (good) documentation will never be easy, or hassle-free
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Best Practices for Handling API Clients(techblog.commercetools.com)
1 points by cnj 8y ago|0 comments
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by cnj 8y ago
> Vendors (especially nascent ones) have an opportunity in serverless, if they decrease emphasis on trying to copy each other’s services, and instead innovate new serverless services that offer unique, best-in-class, value propositions.
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by cnj 9y ago
This is open source, so "someone" has to run it. This someone could be e.g. IBM or RedHat, it could also be someone like Adobe that wants to offer a FaaS integrated into their main product. It could also be your own company, e.g.
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by cnj 9y ago
> Kubernetes takes you to serverless, where you don't care about the hardware. Serverless isn't a good name - but it doesn't stand for "don't care about the hardware". Devs are already not caring about hardw
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by cnj 9y ago
I totally agree on the second point (business model alignment), however I believe that amount of requests does in a lot of cases not mean that your interests are aligned. Examples: * A REST API needs 3 calls for $foobar. A GraphQL API only
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by cnj 9y ago
In addition to what has been mentioned already (esp. backwards-compatibility): * Ability to customize / extend I'm assuming your API is targeted at a business domain (vs. an infrastructure API like an email API). The API vendor wi
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Gzip on AWS Lambda and API Gateway(techblog.commercetools.com)
1 points by cnj 9y ago|0 comments
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Takeaways from Serverless Conf NYC 17(techblog.commercetools.com)
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Takeaways from Serverless Conf NYC `17(techblog.commercetools.com)
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by cnj 9y ago
Yes, they also suffer from cold starts. When people talk about it, they usually measure the percentage of cold-started function calls, which mostly ends up being around 0.1% of all calls. In a sense, you have to have a good amount of baseli
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by cnj 9y ago
For languages on the JVM, having a warmed-up JVM makes a big difference (not only because of the JVM startup, but also because the JIT compiler can work it's magic). Lambda optimizes for this and keeps the JVM around. From this example
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Testing in React: best practices, tips and tricks(techblog.commercetools.com)
1 points by cnj 10y ago|0 comments
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Customizing a BaaS API, Serverless(techblog.commercetools.com)
8 points by cnj 10y ago|0 comments
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by cnj 10y ago
The basics of designing any programming interface apply: Model your domain well, choose good names, try to make things as self-explanatory as possible. Assuming you're tasked with doing a REST/JSON API, you should know both and be
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by cnj 10y ago
commercetools | Scala Backend Engineer | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE, VISA https://commercetools.com Our team of five experienced Scala Devs is building the API of commercetools. Our customer base is growing fast (our API calls gre
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by cnj 10y ago
commercetools | Scala Backend Engineer | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE, VISA https://commercetools.com Our team of five experienced Scala Devs is building the API of commercetools. Our customer base is growing fast (our API calls gre

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