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by re-thc 2y ago
> community support forums That's like the "old place" and then everyone moved to discord. Well, discord is where the developers go (including the cloudflare 1s). > Seems like a crazy way to approach things In a way, yo
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by re-thc 2y ago
You might have more luck asking on discord: https://discord.com/invite/cloudflaredev With the way Cloudflare works I'd say R2 is still a relatively young product and hasn't been heavily battle tested. There a
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Is there a guide, or playbook to hire 10x engineers for startup founders? If this exists and everyone can easily use it, will they still be 10x? It'd be a commodity, no? > But I don't feel confident with my current hires.
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by re-thc 2y ago
This is what gives rise to backend-for-frontend services. You have good reasons to keep the frontend as it is and the backend team as well. So there is a requirement for a middleman to provide additional services. As to who should handle it
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by re-thc 2y ago
> But then why don't they operate in other countries also if they can operate in UK? They do operate in other countries? They do a lot of things. Check out their customer stories for example: https://www.palantir.com&#x2F
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by re-thc 2y ago
Show HN? See: https://news.ycombinator.com/show
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Cool, but how do you provision SSL locally if you're behind a NAT? Remote / work from home without crazy VPN requirements. Some workplaces / offices I've been to also don't have them. > I usually try to do i
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by re-thc 2y ago
> it's just not in the best interest of the business because as soon as the person doing resume building is finished they'll jump ship. I've definitely done this myself. I certainly hope not everyone does so. I've see
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by re-thc 2y ago
> and that time would have been better invested in the product instead of wasting time figuring out how these tools work It really depends on what you're doing. Back then a lot of non-VC startups worked better and the savings possib
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Fair, but my point is that AWS has a full team of people that built and contributed to that magic box that is managing the database You think so. The real answer is maybe maybe not. They could have all left and the actual maintainers n
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by re-thc 2y ago
> and how do you measure that? That's on a company's performance reviews... and so how do you measure salary increases, bonuses, anything? There shouldn't be a different standard to it. The only difference is the engineer
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by re-thc 2y ago
> There are a lot of factors of course but the gist of it is if you keep doing the same work and providing the same value If only we do the "same" work and provide the "same" value in software. 90% of the time you&#x2
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by re-thc 2y ago
> They usually have a lot of steps after "senior developer" They're also not the same roles. Usually roles (except fake titles) above senior are a completely different beast just as well. Staff / principal replaces th
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Companies that need to keep their software developers around long-term I never get why companies are so fixated on salaries being tied to titles. People just do different jobs and you shouldn't need technical or people leadership
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by re-thc 2y ago
To make it as close to production without all the hassle. - Autoprovison SSL - Serve static files without another web server - Rewrites, redirects, map HMR, websocket ports etc Sure nginx works too but Caddy is definitely less work and less
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by re-thc 2y ago
CDNs, ingress, etc... haven't had to use a web proxy directly for years. At the end of the day funnily enough it's still nginx or similar behind the scenes. Caddy for local development. Less config and setup.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> so much so that the inefficiency of the cloud is more efficient than them doing the work themselves. You jest. They just add so many "required" layers to the cloud to make it even worse. They create "frameworks", &q
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by re-thc 2y ago
> for many of them it's either being captive to their barely working IT department or being captive to a decently more competent AWS. It's more just being prone to sales tactics. For the IT department you've seen everythin
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Thus the second sentence : Thus, I rather they fix the real problem than outsourcing 1/2 of it. Without the servers the problem is still there - in DevOps, development, etc.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> as it allows us to be nimble and responsive to business needs Speaking of the banking sector, I doubt the server is what's slowing things down.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> So I went digging around a bit and I found that apparently only something like 16% of people who use Rust use it for work. That essentially makes Rust a hobby language, does it not? So, less people use it = hobby? How does that work? T
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Why go to the trouble of running Kubernetes on top of AWS, when ECS does roughly the same job at a fraction of the complexity? Because it doesn't. ECS has its own complexities - perhaps as a result of EC2 fleets / autoscaling
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by re-thc 2y ago
> China leads in 57 out of 64 technologies If this is in reply to China being hard working, then sorry, no. They're definitely hard working in obtaining technology. Maybe not by means you're thinking of (see e.g. Nortel, HTC or
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by re-thc 2y ago
> And then you get to stand up your own databases, load balancers, monitoring, logging, etc. You get all if not most of this on DigitalOcean, Linode, Upcloud, Scaleway, etc all of a LOT cheaper. > but a bunch of their foundational ser
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by re-thc 2y ago
So Exercism AI?
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by re-thc 2y ago
> If they are self-managing all the extras you get with a decent cloud setup (node failover, load distribution and auto-scaling, multi-region or at least multi-DC for availability beyond single node failures, …) History has proven that m
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by re-thc 2y ago
> is there any ECS-like hosting that's much cheaper? Most have adopted EKS-like services i.e. kubernetes. There is fly.io that's closer. Hope they improve on the reliability aspect.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Are they using AWS? Yes!
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by re-thc 2y ago
> you should get involved with the OCI Distribution group This is likely just a sample to showcase workers. Not sure it's enough reason for CloudFlare to get involved?
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by re-thc 2y ago
> but let's just say that this could happen For Amazon Web Services. > What is your plan Move off of AWS.

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