ptaoussanis

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Effective Open Source Maintenance Maintenance(youtube.com)
2 points by ptaoussanis 11mo ago|1 comments
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by ptaoussanis 11mo ago
A recent talk I gave (Oct 2025) about sustainable open source, focusing on the emotional dynamics of long-term OSS work. It explores some of the common reasons that OSS maintainers burn out. And explores some of the easy ways that OSS users
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Memory use is a few KB per connection. Latency is good (same ballpark as nginx in my tests with most workloads). Can't comment on data copying. This is a new server so obviously nowhere near battle-tested yet, but anecdotally: Both the auth
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
To clarify: the core server is indeed written in Java, but it's written to conform to the standard Clojure web server (Ring [1]) spec and to be consumed by Clojure applications. The public API is all Clojure-side and essentially uses the Ja
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Thanks, we'll try get that fixed soon (Feng and I are both at work atm).
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
The library author is Chinese, so English isn't his native language. We'll be cleaning up typos soon - this post caught us by surprise. As for Compojure, etc.- those are libraries that operate on top of a Ring web server. Jetty is the def
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Certainly your web server isn't likely to be the performance bottleneck in the majority of real-world applications. Even without a db call, just generating the response Clojure-side will kill your numbers (and Clojure is pretty darn fast).
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Benchmarks author here. I did my best to get representative numbers, but good benchmarking is tough and this isn't my area of expertise. There's almost certainly errors and room for improvement (suggestions very welcome!). In particular, I'
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
I believe this test was run locally for simplicity (and so people can reproduce it easily). As you've pointed out, that's a pretty artificial context and can obviously have a big absolute effect on the numbers. I will say that in my limited
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Feng (http-kit's author) should be around shortly if anyone has any questions. In the meantime, you can also check out http://http-kit.org for more info. That page is a work-in-progress so please excuse any errors. We were actually planni
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Clojure web server benchmarks(github.com)
5 points by ptaoussanis 14y ago|0 comments
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
I like this idea. Actually, having never really used an iPad much, I'm surprised it doesn't already do this. The Autocorrect drives me mad on my iPhone for the same reason.
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Great idea!
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Hmm, interesting- didn't know about the split-keyboard thing (I'm only on iPhone). I've been thinking about what else might be an alternative but am coming up short. More than 2 fingers would be impractical on an iPhone. Question: In the vi
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by ptaoussanis 14y ago
Well that was quick ;) In principle really like the idea of something like this- especially in the context of an app like yours where you're targeting long-document writers. How's it feel to use in practice? I kind of liked the suggestion e
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Startup interview gone wrong [video](wusoup.com)
1 points by ptaoussanis 16y ago|0 comments
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by ptaoussanis 16y ago
Hi Dave, I've been struggling a little to succinctly articulate the "killer function", since it's more an interplay of things that take a little explaining. The text at the top was my attempt so far: will think some more on it. It's fully f
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by ptaoussanis 16y ago
Hi guys, I'm in the process of launching an early prototype version of a Clojure/MongoDB web application I'm working on called Wusoup (www.wusoup.com). Basically the thing functions as a people-matching and messaging service for dating/frie
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Rate My Startup: wusoup.com(wusoup.com)
3 points by ptaoussanis 16y ago|3 comments
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by ptaoussanis 16y ago
Actually, I wish it were simpler still ;) I guess it's just a difficult situation: especially with the geographical distance, a gut feeling is probably all I'll have to work with. I'm curious though: is this not a common problem? Outside of
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Ask HN: Trusting contract developers with codebase?
2 points by ptaoussanis 16y ago|2 comments