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by mannyv 4y ago
Having been an Enterprise SE in the past, I love any data about sales and the process. Do you have data that shows whether 'letting the customer talk' produces more wins? Or faster wins? The consensus seems to be 'customer ta
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by mannyv 4y ago
You can spew messages into sqs then have a lambda on sqs sending to pg. Funny, we were going to use kafka too, but just sending to mysql worked just fine <shrug>. One day that will change, obviously.
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by mannyv 4y ago
He's not wrong. Computer research is so irrelevant that I haven't ready much of it in decades. The things that do bubble up are theoretical security problems that really won't move the needle. I mean, TCP/IP won, but tha
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by mannyv 4y ago
As a note, if you're in a startup you have no idea how far ahead of most developers you are. I keep forgetting that most developers throw their stuff over the wall to IT and probably don't have a ci pipeline, do IaC, , and probabl
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by mannyv 4y ago
FYI, people believe that dev tools don't make money, but atlassian, pagerduty, zendesk, etc show that there is a market. And most tools kind of suck.
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by mannyv 4y ago
The important point here is that he got funding first, and it sounds like at least half a million because he didn't talk about begging angels for money or running out of runway. He was able to hire someone fast. You won't be this
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by mannyv 4y ago
Having managed a small data center in the past and having seen what it takes to manage multiple enterprise-scale data centers, the answer is "no, AWS does it better." The company that I'm in right now has two engineers (inclu
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by mannyv 4y ago
Yea, because we need more harder problems to solve. /s
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by mannyv 4y ago
Our CEO has the root creds in his 1password. Everyone who needs it had admin roles with billing. If he gets hit by a bus we know enough to recover everything.
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by mannyv 4y ago
Discussions about how this will fail to be productized as a cloud service are premature. There are many, many ways to do SAAS. If the benefit is there people will find a way to use it. In any case the problem is moving data, then the comput
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by mannyv 4y ago
'build quickly to prove out a product feature, but always with a path to a more robust solution" Yes
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by mannyv 4y ago
Funny, I thought Netflix was all AWS. NM, this is for the hosted solution.
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by mannyv 4y ago
Actually, you're incorrect. Scale problems seem to have quanta. In your example you will have physical issues with ingredients, etc at some point. It might be storage, it might be because you've run out of water. It might be becau
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by mannyv 4y ago
This is way too simplistic. In reality, everyone has a role, and if you don't understand that role then problems occur. The fact is, in every organization there's the technical side and there's the political side. The bigger
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by mannyv 4y ago
Supremes have said that cookbooks and other fact collections don't necessarily have copyright protection. Recipes definitely don't.