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by mark242 7y ago
I really appreciate the work of getting this up and running; it's certainly a good exercise in making a fully-distributed content site. What I'm missing is where a collection of static files couldn't just be served up from an
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by mark242 7y ago
I have the feeling that this will have the same net effect for startups -- or even more -- that Stripe-as-a-payment-gateway also had. This could be an instant accelerator to self-funding.
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by mark242 7y ago
"Doesn't cost a dime to do this, and not more than 20 minutes of work and 10 minutes downtime from my side." Your work isn't free. Application downtime is costing you.
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by mark242 7y ago
Containers that require custom DNS queries about incoming connections from a non-HTTP service (we're using the NLB for this), using a caching DNS server that isn't publicly accessible.
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by mark242 7y ago
This is big for making services which rely on DNS much easier to roll out in a container environment (ECS, EKS, etc). Traditionally we've had to create custom AMI images, use CloudFormation to keep them running with EIPs, and then have
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by mark242 7y ago
Have you considered using Aurora Serverless? If you're trying to prove market fit, it can be an order of magnitude cheaper than RDS and you don't have to worry about management in EC2.
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by mark242 7y ago
The Java SDK for SQS automatically drops >256k messages into an S3 bucket and stores a pointer to the message in SQS itself. You set the bucket and the client transparently handles retrieving a message from SQS/S3 when necessary. Ba
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by mark242 7y ago
Speaking as someone who runs a commercial antispam SAAS, content filtering is increasingly irrelevant, and isn't nearly as effective as reputation filtering or bayesian classification.
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by mark242 7y ago
Please don't do this anymore. End-to-end encryption is extremely easy to set up and maintain. P2PE will absolutely lull you into a false sense of security.
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by mark242 7y ago
This will hopefully prevent malicious sites hosted on v1-style buckets from stealing cookies/localstorage/credentials/etc.
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by mark242 7y ago
Yes. I will gladly pay (Amazon|Google|Microsoft|Cloudflare|Zeit) to manage software deployment infrastructure for me, allowing my teams to concentrate on writing business logic. As with any other concept, it has a learning curve, but once y
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by mark242 7y ago
This is what sitemap.xml was made for. You can give hints to all of the engines, and they will duly follow them.
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by mark242 7y ago
I can't help but think that using the Now framework would have made the author way, way happier. Point now at your Dockerfile, and bam, everything is running in a minute.
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by mark242 8y ago
Better idea: Optional.ofNullable(foo).orElse(new Foo())
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by mark242 8y ago
Yeah, agree-- the moment that you all get KV to mature to a more Dynamo-like experience with queries and secondary indexes, that opens up a whole ton of possibilities in terms of easily rolling out entire applications that can scale from ze
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by mark242 8y ago
The more work you can offload to an edge node, the better-- this is a pretty safe general rule to make. Think of all of the random conditionals that your http routes have; "is the client posting a correct data structure" or "
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by mark242 8y ago
1. Go to your nearest finance department, either in the company you're working for or a relative's company, whatever. 2. Find a specific task that they're using Excel to accomplish. 3. Make a web app that reduces their clicks
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by mark242 8y ago
If you are relying on SEO to gain initial traction, your project is going to fail. Start worrying about SEO when you have a core base of users who are actually using your product and by then you'll be more interested in refining featur
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by mark242 8y ago
React hosted in an S3 bucket, API Gateway with one Lambda function per model, single DynamoDB table with overloaded indexes. This will cost you pennies to spin up and get traction with.
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by mark242 9y ago
Part of the problem is that Twitter encouraged automated signups in the early days, blazing the trail for gigantic bot-farms that we all talk about today. They pushed popular rss-to-tweet gateways, wordpress plugins for auto-tweeting blog p
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by mark242 9y ago
Email can be made secure, it's just that by default it's insecure and there isn't a Google/Mozilla/Microsoft/Apple conglomerate to penalize SMTP servers by showing "Insecure" in an email display/
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by mark242 9y ago
Two pieces of feedback. First, tutorials like this should include getting this running using TLS by default. Ideally there shouldn't be any reference to plain http at all. Second, the DSL for Kube and Ambassador seem ridiculously compl
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by mark242 9y ago
Yes, it absolutely does matter. Chaining promises together, running them in parallel with Promise.all, and the abortable-promise pattern, make developing (and especially debugging!) much much easier than having to deal with callback hell.
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by mark242 9y ago
Genuine question: in 2017, why would you create a JS framework that didn't use futures? eg in the documentation, ".fadeIn(selector, time)" - "Returns nothing". Why not return a future that resolves when the fade com
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by mark242 9y ago
Why would these instances not be behind ELB?
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by mark242 9y ago
Plus the capex costs of constantly having to buy new hardware and stick it in a datacenter for when your workload went up. Plus the costs of maintaining that hardware both from an opex and capex point of view. Plus the capex and opex costs
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by mark242 9y ago
Combine Cloud9 with a $300 touchscreen Chromebook and that's a hell of an environment vs buying a $2000 Macbook.
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by mark242 9y ago
Yes. If you're using Elastic Beanstalk, or Cloudformation with autoscaling, Fargate seems to be an incredible waste of money. Maybe if you have an extremely small workload that doesn't need a lot of resources running, I could see
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by mark242 9y ago
> Social Network for Children Counterpoint-- this should not be built. Kids already have a social network, it's called the playground at school. Having children engage with their friends outside of school time is a fine goal, but th
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by mark242 9y ago
He still is. Reamde is a fantastic story of the seedy underbelly of World of Warcraft gold.

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