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by heipei 3y ago
I believe the it's over because tech X has thinking is at best lazy and at worst dangerous. It implies that the everyone's requirements are the same and static and that solution X has reached all of those requirements. If people
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by heipei 3y ago
Every discussion around subscribing to a SaaS vs. operating it is always reduced to costs on HN. There is another, more critical aspect to why we (and many others) operate their own infrastructure, run their own servers, operate their own E
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by heipei 3y ago
What's idiotic is that even Nomad was licensed as BSL but Hashicorp doesn't even offer Nomad as a managed cloud service...
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by heipei 3y ago
That is exactly my worry. It's hard enough as it is with VPN / IP detection, headless detection, Captchas, etc. WEI would probably mean game over for all but a handful of Google-sanctioned bots.
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by heipei 3y ago
I would say that you don't absolutely need a service like urlscan.io to look at a single suspicious URL, but running a URL through our sandbox will create a point of time snapshot that you can share with others, compare to existing sca
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by heipei 3y ago
CEO of urlscan.io here: We will be evaluating the use of captcha bypass services soon, we are fully aware of the growing problem of captchas being abused by threat actors to hide their malicious websites from automated analysis tools such a
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by heipei 3y ago
As someone who has built a business on browsing certain website using Chrome in headless mode this proposal worries me, and it has the potential to destroy large commercial segments of other similar companies.
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by heipei 3y ago
What I've seen missing in these discussions is what happens with Headless browsers. Yes, these are used a lot for scraping, but there are also many legitimate use-cases. If the Web Integrity API is available to everyone then you can ef
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by heipei 3y ago
I disagree. I'm not saying saying that I'm a 10x engineer, but I've sometimes found myself working with folks who feel like they're a 0.1x engineer, so compared to them the 10x difference still applies. It's not tha
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by heipei 3y ago
cqlsh is written in Python. Which doesn't mean it's less of a pain in the ass ;)
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by heipei 3y ago
The Docker images for ScyllaDB work perfectly fine and ship with all administrative tools included.
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by heipei 3y ago
Same here. We run a very content/media-heavy SaaS SPA application completely out of a single location in Germany and have customers that are primarily located in the US, and also in places like Australia and Japan. We don't use an
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by heipei 3y ago
The fact that they have "Falkenstein" as one of the German locations already tells me they're gonna be using Hetzner VPS to provision the VM :P
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by heipei 3y ago
It's funny to hear this in this context. Fly is treated as one of the few potential successors to Heroku, and Heroku raised very little money while remaining the number one choice for most devs here (based on sentiments). And then an e
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by heipei 3y ago
This would be about reducing latency between these two exchanges to enable arbitrage opportunities the way I understood it.
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by heipei 3y ago
It doesn't use up too many resources, but I still don't like having more than 50% of the user database be essentially spam. If you ever want to sell your company you want to have somewhat accurate numbers of actual user registrati
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by heipei 3y ago
I've been thinking about converting a legacy application which uses UUIDv4 to use ULIDs instead going forward, but then to represent these ULIDs in a format that is compliant with a UUIDv4. I have not thought through the possible downs
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by heipei 3y ago
I don't know. I run a SaaS that allows free user signup and significantly more than 50% of my daily signups are just signup "spam", without any visible motivation for doing so. The user name or information doesn't show u
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by heipei 3y ago
This is a great point. People use Caddy because for simple cases the configuration is seemingly "easy", and more importantly it includes Let's Encrypt out of the box. I've tried to argue with these users that nginx has m
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by heipei 3y ago
I'm just daydreaming here, completely understand they have a business to run and they probably thought long and hard about which features to put into which license. No criticism intended, just something that eventually might catch up o
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by heipei 3y ago
And, come to think of it, some additional great features would be automatic TLS certs via Let's Encrypt and maybe even being able to use a shared cache with multiple instances of nginx.
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by heipei 3y ago
I still love nginx, but it's a damn shame they gate some really useful features behind their nginx plus license, namely service discovery via DNS SRV records, cache purge requests and request queueing for upstreams.
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by heipei 3y ago
Not really, I've been operating 10+ node Elasticsearch cluster for years, running on a workload scheduler (Nomad). I never have to perform any maintenance or housekeeping except deleting old indices, and updates are performed by bumpin
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by heipei 3y ago
Plus Elasticsearch is a breeze to operate and scale in a fault-tolerant matter.
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by heipei 3y ago
For the same reason you have money going to various SQL-as-a-service companies that run Postgres / MySQL for you as a service: Some folks would rather eat the network latency, give up control of their data and complicate their complian
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by heipei 3y ago
Try sleeping with earplugs. I started doing it out of necessity, and it was awkward at first, but once I got used to it was really life-changing. Sleeping with plugs in feels like being embraced by silence and darkness, so much so that you
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by heipei 3y ago
I don't get why anyone would use Google Authenticator over Authy which had device sync, backup and E2E encryption for years.
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by heipei 3y ago
We're doing this with our monolithic Node.js / Express application as well, but I wasn't aware that it's a common pattern. For us having a monolithic app greatly simplifies development, deployment, updating dependencies,
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by heipei 3y ago
It’s completely different as git does not store deltas but snapshots of whole files and file trees.
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by heipei 3y ago
We're running ScyllaDB on Docker via Nomad and it's been an absolute breeze. One simple container with a handful of open ports. I don't get what's complicated about ScyllaDB deployment.

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