ramanathanrv

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by ramanathanrv 6y ago
If I am not wrong, this is what both Facebook and Apple trying to do. Both these platforms can sell individual articles but they choose not to do so due to high overhead in the payments infrastructure. The problem in such a model is that th
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by ramanathanrv 6y ago
This is indeed a huge problem. In the current form, it quickly become unsustainable (in terms of both time and money) for customers to work with so many subscriptions. Maybe the end state is Netflix/Prime like platform for digital news
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by ramanathanrv 6y ago
Best wishes to Stripe. They deserve to succeed. I speculate that the biggest competition for Stripe is going to be Amazon which will use AWS to rollout payments API.
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by ramanathanrv 7y ago
For small setups, it is better to stay away from Kubernetes until it reaches a good level of stability. We jumped early on in the K8S bandwagon (before AWS EKS) and paid a steep price for that. We continue to pay. Our AWS cost has doubled s
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Ask HN: First principles thinking for implementing database, security, etc.
1 points by ramanathanrv 8y ago|0 comments
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by ramanathanrv 8y ago
Regarding `avoid side-effects`, the amount of side-effects that are required for a typical real problem solving code base is quite reasonably measurable. For example, the number of network calls, DB calls, FileSystem read/writes are ar
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by ramanathanrv 10y ago
Well deserved! I remember that before BootStrap came to the scene, we used to work with BluePrint CSS. BluePrint gave a nice canvas and concealed all the IE6 related issues. However, once Google Chrome became mainstream, it was time to move
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by ramanathanrv 10y ago
The article is postulating only a theory. We have seen the opposite true in credit card forms where users have to input card expiry date. No matter what sort of formatting we did, users always typed expiry wrong and our JS would point it ou
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Stripe API endpoint supports SSLv3(ssllabs.com)
1 points by ramanathanrv 10y ago|0 comments
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by ramanathanrv 10y ago
I was expecting this for a while now. But the pricing part isn't very clear. Is it $149 per instance or for the solution itself? Could be better if the article elaborates more on this.
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by ramanathanrv 11y ago
High availability is the main requirement. Since we are running our hosts in AWS, we are sure that the host(s) running influx would go down certainly few times a year. Will look more into Cassandra. Since it scales really well, it could wel
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Influx alternatives for sub 100G data?
2 points by ramanathanrv 11y ago|2 comments