mluggy

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Why I Dumped Google Analytics for SQL(lugassy.net)
6 points by mluggy 9y ago|0 comments
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How I Created Better Google Analytics in 3 Hours(lugassy.net)
3 points by mluggy 9y ago|0 comments
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by mluggy 9y ago
good old mysql. it is the cockroach of software.
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by mluggy 9y ago
funny how you're right. i just got an api shutdown notice from stormpath (yet another product that supposed to save us developers): https://stormpath.com/
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by mluggy 9y ago
hi guys, OP here. updated the post with my current stack (it is everything but fancy)
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by mluggy 9y ago
my database.rules file is over 2000 LOC, and I have lots of these: root.child('users/' + auth.uid + '/roles/admin').exists(). that's my point really, you need a supplemental user record in a second da
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by mluggy 9y ago
are you adding custom claims to the core firebase user or as a custom jwt/additional user object? can you have a user signed in with facebook and assign a "experiment1=b" claim to it?
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by mluggy 9y ago
yes, since you don't trust your users you have to get sensitive processes (like promotions, unlocks, rewards) on a separate server process or cloud function. this kinda defeats the purpose of serverless.
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by mluggy 9y ago
1. I agree Firebase is great for Hackatons. 2. Iterating multiple records is a pain and the indexing firebase provides is not very helpful. 3. By caching computation I mean getting raw data from the database processed and digested (i.e conv
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Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web(lugassy.net)
246 points by mluggy 9y ago|118 comments
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Should you attend Affiliate Summit?(lugassy.net)
2 points by mluggy 9y ago|0 comments
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How moving from Pub/Sub to AVRO saved us $38,976/year(lugassy.net)
2 points by mluggy 10y ago|0 comments
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by mluggy 10y ago
+1 on setting up an s3 bucket, cloudfront distribution, ssl sni, route 53 rules and simple "aws s3 sync" command with some cache-headers. Initial setup might take an hour but further deployments are pretty instant.
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by mluggy 10y ago
good point, fixed (and added a bunch of other updates).
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by mluggy 10y ago
Hi guys, I'm the original poster. Sorry for joining so late. I read each and every feedback and also updated the medium article. In no particular order: 1) Didn't mean to hand-wave. For the last few months GCP was the new shiny to
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by mluggy 10y ago
I found gcp support to just work, for $150, the monthly cost of silver support, I was able to get tons of best practices and guidelines from actual google developers.
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Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform?(lugassy.net)
3 points by mluggy 10y ago|2 comments
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Free private NPM repository(lugassy.net)
1 points by mluggy 10y ago|0 comments
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SkimLinks/VigLink Aggregator and Optimizer(kehalim.com)
1 points by mluggy 11y ago|0 comments
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by mluggy 11y ago
that's the thing, it doesn't block you. it lets you see the consequences. like you would enable images on an email (usually hidden) just to see it more clearly.
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by mluggy 11y ago
or should ad blockers circumvent google serps as well?
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by mluggy 11y ago
Well if it's a good site, google will keep showing it to you.
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by mluggy 11y ago
:) yea, Times New Roman FTW
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Make your site unusable when adblock is used(github.com)
5 points by mluggy 11y ago|8 comments
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by mluggy 15y ago
Also loving namecheap thought it sucks that they don't support all extensions, for example I have sampl.es which I cannot transfer from GoDaddy
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by mluggy 15y ago
for the 10 people who might like the clickely keyboard sounds - i say don't buy an ipad.
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by mluggy 15y ago
The business of push notification saas does sound small but should be more and more easy to roll new services once you have their SDK.