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Show HN: Schezzle, a flexible website monitoring tool(schezzle.com)
5 points by jcahill84 10y ago|2 comments
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by jcahill84 10y ago
This is great. Do you have the code you used to scrape and rank the books posted somewhere?
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by jcahill84 10y ago
This is really elegant. It's always fun to find something artsy in code. We often forget how important creativity is in software engineering.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
I don't think the tech industry will ever be saturated, especially where software is concerned. Ski all day and read/code all night! You'll be fine.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
+1 for AWS (you can do it even cheaper with an S3 public site), but if you're not looking to manage the server(s), check out 1and1.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
I think the spacial/desk-space UI is pretty neat. It's not for me, but I can definitely see how it appeals to your target audience. Nice work!
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by jcahill84 10y ago
Never work for free. The entire purpose of working is to exchange your contribution for something of value. Whether that value is an intellectual reward, money, equity, etc. is up to you. It seems that in the beginning you valued the intell
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Your Infrastructure Will Fail(medium.com)
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Your Infrastructure Will Fail(medium.com)
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by jcahill84 10y ago
Explains the need for https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/... then. Crazy.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
Didn't mean you Bombthecat :-) I was referring the article.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
This is one of the biggest problems with people hating on docker... They don't understand what it is and actually does. Great comment!
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by jcahill84 10y ago
The Hard thing About Hard Things, but Ben Horowitz. Before that was The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. I've been on a business book kick lately, but currently took a break and am reading Amy Schumer's book for
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by jcahill84 10y ago
At schezzle ( https://schezzle.com ) we use Spring. If you don't want to go the whole DI IoC path, just use Jersey (JAX-RS) directly. Dropwizard isn't a bad implementation either, but can be a bit verbose. Check out swag
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by jcahill84 10y ago
Agreed. This was really just written from my personal experience of being bummed out by never launching, then how awesome it felt to finally do it.
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Failure to Launch(medium.com)
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by jcahill84 10y ago
At Schezzle ( https://schezzle.com ) we use docker swarm on AWS. The build jobs creates images that are published to ECS repositories, and there are auto scaling groups that add and remove engine hosts to and from ALB target group
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by jcahill84 10y ago
I think that's where they would draw the line. Generally the "new things" are really new ways of doing things we're already doing, or may do in the future. It's definitely a gray line though.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
I'm an engineer at a massive media and technology company. What keeps me motivated is the freedom to experiment and develop ideas on my own, outside of the iteration's expected deliverables. We have a very open culture, where engi
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Dealing with Insurmountable Documentation Shortfalls(medium.com)
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by jcahill84 10y ago
There's some good stuff about this in Ben Horowitz's book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things." I definitely recommend reading it for advice on this, and many other topics.
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Introducing Schezzle – A Monitoring Tool(medium.com)
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by jcahill84 10y ago
I wrote up an article on this: https://medium.com/@jcahill84/insurmountable-documentation-s...
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by jcahill84 10y ago
I've spent many many years half-completing things... I think it's a really common pattern. I recently, finally, completed something and launched it ( https://schezzle.com ). The trick is to just make yourself launch. Sto
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by jcahill84 10y ago
Schezzle: https://schezzle.com . Ramen profitable, but profitable nonetheless.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
On the front-end React and Redux would be excellent to learn. I'm also a big fan of EmberJS. If you don't already know Java, adding that to your toolbox could be very helpful if you ever want to end up in the enterprise world.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
https://schezzle.com , which coincidentally is a side-project of mine. There are lots of other ones out there too though. During my day job we use things like splunk, cloudwatch, etc.
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by jcahill84 10y ago
My first stop is almost always the thesaurus, from there I usually move on to combinations of two words or two synonyms of what I'm trying to build. My current project is a scheduled API monitoring tool, and I came up with the word &qu
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Show HN: Schezzle – Flexible API monitoring, testing, and automation(schezzle.com)
3 points by jcahill84 10y ago|0 comments