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by rdcastro 10y ago
Deployments should not be taking that long at all if the app code is coming up healthy when it gets started on the VM (for crashes at code startup we also fail the deployments early). If the app comes up but isn't healthy (like serving
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by rdcastro 10y ago
You're totally right. Some some examples of crazy stuff you can run on App Engine: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-custom-runt...
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by rdcastro 10y ago
We do have migration guides to the Flexible environment available per language. This is the link to the Python version: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/migr... I hope that helps.
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by rdcastro 10y ago
App Engine Flexible is a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) with the mission that you bring the code and we do the rest for you. As an example, although we run the app as a Docker container, one doesn't need to understand Docker at all to ge
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Microsoft Surface and USB devices(blog.sacaluta.com)
1 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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4 weeks with Microsoft Surface(blog.sacaluta.com)
2 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Generating Sequential IDs(blog.sacaluta.com)
2 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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On being a senior engineer(blog.sacaluta.com)
3 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Software quality hell: bandaid development (blog.sacaluta.com)
3 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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by rdcastro 14y ago
Yes, it does makes sense what you said. Thanks for sharing.
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by rdcastro 14y ago
Like the other commenter mentioned, at startups there isn't much you can do if things go bad but quitting. Also, there's not necessarily financial security as a big company. What would be the worst of both worlds in your opinion?
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by rdcastro 14y ago
> My advice is to do what I'm doing. Same as the other comment: what are you planning to do?
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Ask HN: startup or small team within big company
5 points by rdcastro 14y ago|10 comments
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Windows 8 Closed Distribution Model(blog.sacaluta.com)
1 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Software as an Art(blog.sacaluta.com)
4 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Startup vs. Big Company Mindset(blog.sacaluta.com)
4 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Doesn't a developer spend most time coding? (blog.sacaluta.com)
9 points by rdcastro 14y ago|2 comments
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The virtuous cycle of being on-call(blog.sacaluta.com)
3 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Software Industry: Dealing with Criticism(blog.sacaluta.com)
3 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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by rdcastro 14y ago
Thanks for the correction. Text updated.
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by rdcastro 14y ago
Spot on. And the big question is how to make the right hires to maintain the company's culture. Probably it's not so much about making the right hires, but quickly fixing the bad hires.
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by rdcastro 14y ago
You're absolutely right about that. It takes a lot of courage to do something that could affect the bottomline for the next quarter. Another thing is that, when the company's culture rewards those who don't make mistakes rather than those t
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by rdcastro 14y ago
I like your "I'd rather build things". I think you can also build things at big companies, but it's just different types of things and much different process. It's just that, depending on your org, you may end up building more slowly (somet
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by rdcastro 14y ago
I absolutely agree that typically the impact you can have at a big company can be huge. But it may come with a cost - adjustment to that structure. As I mentioned in the post, it is a great environment for many people, and I'm glad to hear
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Working at big software companies(blog.sacaluta.com)
67 points by rdcastro 14y ago|21 comments
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How does CNAME resolution work?(blog.sacaluta.com)
2 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Intelligent Code Review Tool(blog.sacaluta.com)
4 points by rdcastro 14y ago|1 comments
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Publish/Subscribe Systems(blog.sacaluta.com)
1 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on Riak(blog.sacaluta.com)
1 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments
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Understanding Vector Clocks(blog.sacaluta.com)
2 points by rdcastro 14y ago|0 comments

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