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by mwcampbell 4y ago
> personally i like the idea of per-tenant databases with something like this to scale out for each tenant. So do I. And that type of architecture has come up a few times now in this comment thread. Given that Fly has the lead developer
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
mrkurt specifically mentioned that a solution for that is in the works. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31319544
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
One database per tenant only makes sense in multi-tenant applications that don't have any cross-tenant actions. I imagine there are many B2B applications that fall into this category.
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
Depending on how you define "account", that can be quite reasonable. In a B2B application, each business customer could get their own SQLite database, and the number of SQLite connections would likely be quite manageable, even tho
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
Considering that more powerful machines continue to become more affordable, it's a safe bet that most of us will never hit those limits.
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
> it won't work well on ephemeral, serverless platforms or when using rolling deployments I assumed that was what Fly was hiring Ben to work on.
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
An architecture like yours has certainly been done before, though AFAIK it never went mainstream. In particular, check out this post from Glyph Lefkowitz of Twisted Python fame, particularly the section about the (apparently dead) Mantissa
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
Congratulations to Ben on getting a well-funded player like Fly to buy into this vision. I'm looking forward to seeing a complete, ready-to-deploy sample app, when the upcoming Litestream enhancements are ready. I know that Fly also li
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
To everyone thinking about writing their own code to generate PDF, I'm begging you, please either implement tagged PDF support for accessibility, and test it with Adobe Reader and a screen reader, or consider using an existing PDF gene
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by mwcampbell 4y ago
> and even if you care deeply about other things (your product, your users, etc), you can’t really avoid caring about promotion as well. I can honestly say I didn't care about promotion while I was on the Windows accessibility team
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> if you want to skip it, search for "After the storm". > Yes, yes, I know, I should add anchor links for headers. This is a rare case where blind people using screen readers have it (a little) easier. Every serious screen r
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> To give round numbers, the roundtrip latency is on the order of 100µs I can't help but notice that, at least in my experience on Windows, this is the same order of magnitude as for inter-process communication on the local machine.
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> the framework would instead fill the gaps Might this be asking for patent trouble, though?
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
I wonder if Python has yet reached legacy status when it comes to web development. A quick skim of the schedule for this year's PyCon US suggests that maybe it has.
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
My hypothesis is that not all tasks in a software project require the same level of skill or domain expertise. Context: I'm the technical cofounder and (currently) sole developer of a tiny company developing SaaS applications. The core
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> the apps I write are really small, really secure, really fast, accessible, highly usable, use very few system resources, leverage the latest Apple tech, have almost no external dependencies, work extremely well, and I write them very,
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> except of course there is no built-in formatting tool for the JS ecosystem What about prettier? Sure, it's not "built-in", but it's still easy enough to use and enforce within a given project.
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
Would it be feasible to lower the hiring bar and set things up so that your company can use some of those plentiful, less experienced, less expensive developers to do some of the straightforward gruntwork that comes with any project? I supp
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> Go has a convention that doc comments must begin with the name of the entity they describe. Does anyone know the rationale for this one? My only guess is that the other common style, where the doc comment starts with a verb, allows for
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> Developers no longer need to label their data with class-names or ids - it's only a courtesy to screen readers now. In general, screen readers don't use class names or IDs. In principle they can, to enable site-specific worka
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> Perhaps it feels like pushing against some establishment (when it's serving another establishment). What establishment do you think it's serving? To me, a return to the smaller cities where many of us grew up, or better yet,
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
Then replace business with the problem you're trying to solve, the good you're trying to do for your users, etc. Keeping the big picture in view doesn't have to mean you're only interested in making money.
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
I'm curious about what "substantially better than RDS" means. RDS has been good enough for me for quite a while. Does it only matter once you get to a certain scale?
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
The problem I see with wasm as the sole basis for a secure app platform is that then a web browser can't be just another app on that platform, unless the performance of the browser's JS engine is hobbled or perhaps wasm gets some
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Accessibility and Real-Time Apps: Clearing Fog and Picking Fruit(fly.io)
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
I was trying to remember where I encountered the macOS Server app before, and why I once considered buying a license. Then I recalled: https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/concepts/features/event-notif... It's
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
It seems to me that the most obvious explanation for the decline of SourceForge is that it gave (gives?) too much away free of charge. In this respect, it seems to me that GitHub, Bitbucket, and hosted GitLab are no better. This is making m
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
> the idea of rich pre-OS applications just seems completely backwards. is at odds with: > let me select which disk partition to boot from As soon as there's any UI at all, one has to deal with much of the complexity of modern UI
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As a newcomer to this thread, just wanted to say thanks for bringing your domain expertise to this discussion even though you're certainly not obligated to do so. And, though I presume you've been paid for at least some of the wor
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by mwcampbell 5y ago
I, for one, prefer that the computers I interact with be honest about being computers, and not put on a persona (mask) of poorly simulating a human. I think that's why, as a screen reader user, I prefer speech synthesizers that, while

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