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Show HN: Visualize big packages in NodeJS's Package-Lock.json(layerci.com)
1 points by colinchartier 6y ago|1 comments
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Glad you overcame it all in the end - we're happy users, especially given the outstanding uptime for the past few years.
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by colinchartier 6y ago
It must be very stressful to run a production hosting company - DigitalOcean and Cloudflare both went through similar issues in the early days.
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by colinchartier 6y ago
This is really cool, I love these little tech experiments that keep the "hacker" in "hacker news" :)
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by colinchartier 6y ago
I realize that the thread is even by the same author as OP as well!
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by colinchartier 6y ago
My YC company is a GitHub app [1] and the "act on your behalf" thing is just a really poorly written message for the new (github apps vs oauth apps) apps interface. There's even a hilarious thread on the github forum itself a
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Hey, this looks really cool. In my line of work [1] I talk to a lot of developers about productivity, here are some questions about what you've built in the context of that experience: 1. I think (as you mentioned) "number of comm
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by colinchartier 6y ago
"picked off fast" is perhaps a bit generous - there are lots of great companies that got to series A without seeing a single "top VC" term sheet. I see angel investing as a way to connect with new founders that have a lo
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by colinchartier 6y ago
The stack I'd recommend is a mixture of containers and cloud-native "transparent" assets, so something like ECS + RDS + a CDN + DNS-based service discovery is a good middleground. RDS is an excellent example of a cloud-hosted
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Serverless is more expensive than you'd expect (2021)(layerci.com)
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LayerCI (YC S20) is hiring to build the next generation of DevOps platforms(workatastartup.com)
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LayerCI (YC S20) is hiring devs to work on a distributed hypervisor in Toronto(workatastartup.com)
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LayerCI (YC S20) is hiring technology sales reps in Toronto(workatastartup.com)
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Stacker is great, most polished product in this space for sure - much better than building admin dashboards.
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by colinchartier 6y ago
We monitor which files are read by which steps and map that back to the changes you've made automatically!
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by colinchartier 6y ago
We'll snapshot the state of the database after you set it up once, and then re-load that snapshot every following time you need the database to exist.
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by colinchartier 6y ago
12 is the max parallelization, so you could define more but some of them might queue. All databases that run locally (mongo included) are supported, here's the doc page for that: https://layerci.com/docs/advanced-w
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by colinchartier 6y ago
OS-level VFS wrapper (there are a few places you can put probes here, another approach might be eBPS) We used to sell the features, but that actually didn't work super well - maybe we can add a "technical details" page for th
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by colinchartier 6y ago
It takes significantly longer - we have advanced snapshotting logic to skip steps like "start the database" that you'd otherwise have to run every time you pushed. We also auto-hibernate the instances, so you don't have
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by colinchartier 6y ago
We're halfway between CircleCI and Vercel - not for production hosting, but easily allowing for backends / databases to run (including a separate backend for every push)
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Yes, it's quite simple if you use something like docker compose. If your frontend/backend are in separate repositories, I'd reference this doc page: https://layerci.com/docs/advanced-workflows/routin
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Most developers log in to LayerCI via GitHub or GitLab - so if you have a GitHub plan with SSO, you'll get SSO with Layer as well. We even support self-hosted GitLab, so if you use a custom SSO provider there, developers could use that
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by colinchartier 6y ago
There's a "CACHE" directive if you want traditional dep caching, but if you don't edit requirements.txt, a Layerfile will just entirely skip the pip install You can "SNAPSHOT disabled" if you'd like certai
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Firecracker is definitely heading in the same direction we did with their "diff snapshots", though they don't let you create a COW chain yet, so there's still quite a bit of development to be done on that front.
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Thanks, we're big fans of teleport - funny how small the developer tools world actually is.
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by colinchartier 6y ago
We definitely support rust - you could even use "RUN REPEATABLE" to reuse the state from prior builds, the same way you'd build locally. Happy to chat more and send you some swag if you try it out and write a blog post about
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by colinchartier 6y ago
If you'd like to chat with me (CEO @ LayerCI) personally, I'm at colin@layerci.com
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by colinchartier 6y ago
The idea is it starts as simple as a docker build (e.g., as easy or easier than GitHub actions, orbs, etc) but scales as your code/infra does.
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by colinchartier 6y ago
Will let you know if we know anyone that's looking for a consultant - do you have a website I could refer folks to?
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by colinchartier 6y ago
> In particular, the 'correct way to solve this problem is to stand up an environment for your PR and structure your CI so you only re-run the parts that affect the particular change you want to make, rather than re-running the enti

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