mrkurt

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by mrkurt 5y ago
And midgress! Don't forget midgress.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
I think we'll solve some of this, most people who want a WAF just want to check a box. It makes sense to sell them a WAF. It's not where we're most valuable, though, our customers are pushing us towards much more interesting
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Oh no. I don't want to imply anything nefarious. I think we've just been irritating.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Sometimes it's a negotiation stance. Sometimes it just means "getting acquired sucks and we would rather do our own thing in the way that we think is best". Like this time!
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by mrkurt 5y ago
I think we're a year ahead of Cloud Flare on learning but we do not want to be acquired. They also don't like us much.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
We're primarily trying to prevent fraudulent payments combined with expensive VMs. Throttling CPU to almost nothing on high risk accounts sounds delightfully irritating. We also get the less resource intensive, but still harmful abusiv
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by mrkurt 5y ago
We shadow ban abusive users on Fly.io and it works great. Everything seems to work right up until they try to connect to a deployed app. It took me a while to realize that ramping up the frustration level is, itself, a helpful deterrent.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Your experience level, actually. Here's the full post: https://fly.io/blog/fly-io-is-hiring-full-stack-developers/
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by mrkurt 5y ago
This is a pretty good liveview tutorial: https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-liveview-counter-tutorial We also have a hiring project that's designed to ease people in to Phoenix + LiveView. We extracted this from a re
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Phoenix apps tend to use Postgres, but not always. We've seen some really interesting use of Erlang's distributed mnesia database. There's even an mnesia Ecto adapter: https://hexdocs.pm/ecto3_mnesia/Ecto
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by mrkurt 5y ago
There are many use cases for compute in every (or at least, 3+) regions. But it's very difficult to manage. So difficult that most things that would benefit can't afford the complexity.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
If you're interesting in contributing accessibility improvements to LiveView, we'll fund it. Feel free to email me, I think this is really important work.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
I've been experimenting with some progressive enhancement style HTML. You can build forms that post the "normal" way, then get the full liveview experience when the socket is mounted. If an app can be reduced to just CRUD, I
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by mrkurt 5y ago
A server round trip is a cost. It's not a good idea or a bad idea. I will pay the cost of a round trip if (a) it simplifies my life and (b) the cost is low enough. LiveView simplifies interactive app development (for me). Since I can r
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Our Postgres is pretty great up to about 500GB. We'll be pushing that higher over the next year, but we have several customers using Crunchy Data ( https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge/ ) in conj
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by mrkurt 5y ago
There's a funny story here. We created Fly.io, Chris created Phoenix. We met earlier this year and realized we'd accidentally built complimentary tools. The pithy answer is now "just deploy LiveView apps close to users".
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Non technical Fly.io founder here: LiveView and Elixir work very well distributed all over the world. Here's an example app I fumbled my way through to show it in action: https://liveview-counter.fly.dev/
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Rich people get access to astonishingly favorable loans. And they never have to make interest payments. > Merrill Lynch recently quoted an interest rate of 3.2% to clients with at least $1 million in assets. Those with $100 million or mo
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Very few business pay salaries out of investment money. And even when they do, it's temporary. If salaries were paid with investments, the investments wouldn't ever become more valuable. When you buy stock, you're not paying
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by mrkurt 5y ago
There is tremendous resistance to addressing that loophole. A wealth tax is one way to address it. An estate tax is another. So far a "wealth tax" seems more popular, because most people like the idea of a tax free inheritance but
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by mrkurt 5y ago
No, you die. Your assets get liquidated. The estate pays the loans. No income involved, at least in tax terms.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
You're not really missing anything, but there's a giant loophole. If you have $84 billion (or even $20 million) in stocks and assets, you can borrow against them without converting them to income. Then you can die. Then your estat
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Around 1%, in the form of property taxes. That's a tough number, though, because property taxes apply even when people are under water on their mortgages or rent. The only wealth taxes the US has are property taxes. We all just think o
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by mrkurt 5y ago
It might be worth talking to these folks: https://ruralinnovation.us/ This won't answer your immediate questions, but they've been heavily involved in getting startups to move to small communities. Municipal broad
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Because employees probably haven't exercised their options.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Where else are you going to pay those bandwidth rates?
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Our database roadmap is: 1. Self service snapshots/restores 2. Get it out of beta 3. Single command database and apps management My time estimates are always wrong, but that feels like 3 months. The really slick Phoenix release process
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by mrkurt 5y ago
It's not too harsh at all! The demo is really meant to show liveview interaction latency, we didn't really ever think it would be useful for load. That 300ms load time is actually because it queries Australia when you first load t
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by mrkurt 5y ago
We have a multi-region Liveview demo here: https://liveview-counter.fly.dev/ The total cost to run this is on Fly.io is $38/mo (~$2/mo per region). We've seen as many as 10k concurrent users pushing 30k &quot
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Everyone at Fly.io spends 15% of their time listening to me ask for blog posts.

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