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API Driven Development(stormpath.com)
13 points by rdegges 13y ago|4 comments
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by rdegges 13y ago
I generally agree with this. Not only does hanging around amazing people make you a bit more amazing, but it generally increases your drive and pushes you in whatever direction your buddies are going in. Maybe it's just me, but I also
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Managing User Accounts Easily with Node(stormpath.com)
1 points by rdegges 13y ago|0 comments
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by rdegges 13y ago
Yah -- you can use the API to export stuff really easily. We also have export scripts and stuff. Furthermore, we'll go out of our way to help you move off the platform if you want.
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by rdegges 13y ago
If anyone from the Criticker team is here on HN, I'd be happy to help you guys get this resolved -- my company Stormpath ( https://stormpath.com/ ) provides a really secure way to handle user accounts. I'll help you
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by rdegges 13y ago
This is a great point I wasn't even considering. You're completely right -- there's definitely inherent risk in relying on a third party (particularly a new one). Just some background on Stormpath: we've been around sinc
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by rdegges 13y ago
I'm actually not terribly familiar with Firebase's user account stuff, sorry :( I'll look into it and write a follow up post at some point in the near future, though.
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by rdegges 13y ago
Ah, this is also a great question. So, regarding the hashing stuff: password hashing is supposed to be slow, which is why bcrypt / scrypt are so popular. A lot of people (probably not most HN readers) sometimes don't realize that
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by rdegges 13y ago
That's completely reasonable. I would, however, like to point you to the Terms of Service stormpath has: http://www.stormpath.com/terms_of_service You own all your data, completely. Us (as employees) can't even ac
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by rdegges 13y ago
Author here. This is a really insightful comment, and I think there are a few things I should have mentioned in the two articles to help explain why I feel this is needed a bit more. I've been working with Flask for a long time now, an
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by rdegges 13y ago
Good question! There are a lot of issues (that I've experienced personally): - Hashing passwords is CPU intensive if you're doing computationally expensive stuff (bcrypt, scrypt). - If your site has user accounts, it's likely
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by rdegges 13y ago
Sure -- Flask-Security is really excellent. I should have included it in the first part of this series. Essentially, Flask-Security is doing the same thing as Flask-Stormpath, but is a lot more flexible -- it allows you to store users howev
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by rdegges 13y ago
Heya, author here. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them.
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My Experience as a New Developer Evangelist(rdegges.com)
4 points by rdegges 13y ago|0 comments
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Stormpath Launches Secure User Backend for Spring Developers(stormpath.com)
2 points by rdegges 13y ago|0 comments
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by rdegges 13y ago
We have since changed strategy, and are now hiring / scaling the team / company :)
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by rdegges 13y ago
Nah, I've actually written quite a bit about Heroku (I authored a book on it). The issue was us having complex problems with Django and our supporting libraries: we needed to have database connection pooling, we had to rip out the tast
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by rdegges 13y ago
We've had to get it from several places over the years. We went from various sorts of telco contracts, to CNAM aggregator deals, to everything in between. Right now we get CNAM from the authorative telco sources.
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by rdegges 13y ago
Woa man, I'm extremely flattered! Thanks so much ^^
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by rdegges 13y ago
At a high level, the rewrite included the following services: - opencnam-accounts (user accounts, and billing API) - opencnam-www (the public facing site and web portal) - opencnam-api (the developer API service) We're currently splitt
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by rdegges 13y ago
We didn't need VC or anything like that to get started, so our expenses were very low. It also did (and does) generate quite a bit of revenue, so I'd say it's definitely outside the 'lifestyle business' category. In
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by rdegges 13y ago
Author here: we never had any customer-facing issues, but (and a big shout out to New Relic), NewRelic helped us identify that we were dangerously close to a catastrophe if we kept growth steady. We did the rewrite to avoid problems, and by
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by rdegges 13y ago
Honestly, this is up to you. Do you value doing it? Will it be fun, interesting, and challenging? My advice is this: if you're only in it for the money, don't bother. Building something that people actually like to use is somethin
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My Startup, a Retrospective(rdegges.com)
158 points by rdegges 13y ago|34 comments
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by rdegges 13y ago
If anyone has questions, feel free to hit me up. I'm currently enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon, so will be online coding / lurking ^^
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by rdegges 13y ago
Thanks! Going to be working on this in the near future. We're currently overhauling all of our docs, etc!
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by rdegges 13y ago
I worked on this quite a bit, if anyone has questions, feel free to hit me up in the comments >:)
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Stormpath Launches New Python SDK (Secure User Account API)(stormpath.com)
4 points by rdegges 13y ago|3 comments
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Hello, Stormpath(stormpath.com)
9 points by rdegges 13y ago|1 comments
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by rdegges 13y ago
Damn, looks really nice. I like it a lot more than the old design. Good stuff :o

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