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by rozenmd 3y ago
It's on AWS Lambda
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I built a quick tool that fetches a webpage from around the world using AWS Lambda, and tells you how long it took. Its effectively a distributed "curl <url>" runner, it doesn't render the webpage and fetch resources.
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Show HN: Do I Need a CDN?(onlineornot.com)
2 points by rozenmd 3y ago|3 comments
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Just RTT - it downloads the whole webpage content (equivalent of running curl <url>) I run the checks via AWS Lambda for now, might put it somewhere more stable like Hetzner/DigitalOcean for better accuracy.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Actually I just built a tool to visualise this if you want to check it out: https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn?url=https://bitbucke...
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Here, I built a tool to help you visualise what response times are like from around the world so that you "buy this" idea: https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn?url=https://news.yco...
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by rozenmd 3y ago
It shows up if you need a CDN pretty clearly when you monitor uptime from around the world. The response time for Bitbucket for example is: 100ms from us-east 300ms from us-west 400ms from eu-central 600ms from tokyo 800ms from sydney (numb
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by rozenmd 3y ago
It's Mullvad.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I've mainly been learning by doing (and failing), though I've read these books which helped solve problems I had at the time: - Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra - Obviously Awesome by April Dunford - The Mom Test by Ro
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I have very little personal brand (I went from writing about React to around 900 subscribers to running an uptime monitoring SaaS - https://onlineornot.com ), but am still managing to grow in a red-ocean market. The trick is: - b
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by rozenmd 3y ago
The thing that blew my mind at the time was that the initial licence was like $9, something you could throw onto your credit card as a dev and just have a heaps better way of tracking bugs. Most of their growth playbook from back then is ob
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by rozenmd 3y ago
In previous teams, we just used a JIRA backlog to manage these tasks
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by rozenmd 3y ago
> In France, the political and social climate is so toxic that Québec is seen as the getaway to finally enjoy a simple life Living in France for the last two years, I don't think I've even heard someone mention Canada's ex
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by rozenmd 3y ago
It sounds like your team lacks a culture of continuous improvement - IMO in a product team on-call's full-time job is to make the next on-call engineer's job easier through deleting irrelevant alerts, automating fixes, and general
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I think you might have the term of art wrong - it sounds like you're looking for a charting library, rather than an analytics tool? (most folks assume analytics in the sense of product analytics, like https://plausible.io&#x
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My lessons from the latest AWS us-east-1 outage(onlineornot.com)
2 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I have a fairly big head, most hats don't fit me - I use Bose QC35s
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Ask HN: If Google Workspace/Gsuite disappeared tomorrow, where would you go?
23 points by rozenmd 3y ago|32 comments
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My SaaS's lessons from the latest us-east-1 outage(onlineornot.com)
8 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 3y ago
We are the folks that said Dropbox could be done with a few bash scripts, after all.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I actually moved mine to Cloudflare in anticipation of Google domains shutting down about a year ago. Still surprised I predicted correctly.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
The usual: https://onlineornot.com
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Find customers that need a solution, talk to them. There were 200 alternatives when I started OnlineOrNot, and while it wasn't easy, it still attracted customers.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
I personally use RDS
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Dispelling a myth: the average cost of downtime is not $5600 per minute(onlineornot.com)
2 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Cost reduction and simplicity - costs nothing if no one is using it
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Check out Cloudflare D1
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by rozenmd 3y ago
> Use managed services for as long as possible Big agree here. Yes, you can save stupid money by handrolling postgres on an extremely beefy Hetzner server, or you can pay someone else and keep building your product: https://on
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The average cost of downtime is not $5600 per minute(onlineornot.com)
2 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 3y ago
When you're a uni student, they don't hesitate, they just fine you.

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