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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   I like the point about overnight success. Folks like to think they'll make a course or write a book and rake in $1M USD overnight, and miss the years of value that successful folks provide their audience.
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Raising $537M and throwing a significant portion of it towards customer acquisition probably helped a lot
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   It's a best effort approximation - this status page is automated via external uptime monitoring. It won't catch a 1 in 10000 5xx error, but it'll catch the whole site being unavailable for several minutes.
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   This - serverless bills are astronomical for consistent traffic, even EC2 charges a premium over regular hosting.
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Without downtime too[0], nice! [0]: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   I originally wrote https://OnlineOrNot.com to be a snapshot testing tool for GraphQL servers back on 2017. Essentially it detected if your engineers suddenly broke or changed certain resolvers without updating the snapshots. I s
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   Wait until you hear about Toyota pick-up trucks
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   I don't think most people realise: - how much you gain writing a book about a technical viewpoint you have (from researching all of your "instincts" and figuring out a way to explain them to beginners) - you don't have t
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   by rozenmd 4y ago

   I visit https://hackernews.onlineornot.com to see if it's actually down, if it is, I swap to a 4G hotspot and keep on coding.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Same vibes as "I would simply write bug-free software"
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Getting started is probably the most difficult part. Once you get a bit of momentum, turning your hobby into a habit makes it "automatic" to progress further, and achieve your goals. I break down the project to its minimum shippab
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Fantastic read. Funnily enough, I developed a similar obsession with my 2005 Subaru Outback (having picked it up at around 200k kms, there was quite a bit to replace/fix).
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Almost any "what are you working on" style thread brings me people interested in my side project, and I tend to use their feedback to make it even better, some even stick around and become paying customers. (It's an automated
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I built my entire SaaS on serverless, initial writeup here: https://onlineornot.com/building-saas-in-one-week-how-built-... It was great early on, as I had no idea if people would actually use another uptime monitoring serv
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I ran a newsletter for https://maxrozen.com in the lead up to releasing a book on React's useEffect hook, for about a year. It was no extra work, since I was writing articles anyway, so this gave me another channel to let f
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    Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps(maxrozen.com)

    4 points by rozenmd 4y ago|1 comments
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    Learn from Incidents with Postmortem Templates(onlineornot.com)

    1 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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    On making a better on-call experience(onlineornot.com)

    2 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Comparison looks inaccurate, judging by https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-web...
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I just set-up an automatic status page tracking Slack, in case you're looking for confirmation in the future: https://slack.onlineornot.com/ (no incidents listed atm because I set it up after they came back online) Use
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I think what most people miss in replies to your comment is "building trust at scale". Folks will launch courses that net $1m a year, sure. But what you miss is the years beforehand building goodwill with their community by helpin
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    Making your team's on-call suck less(onlineornot.com)

    3 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    https://onlineornot.com and https://hackernews.onlineornot.com - it's an incident management service that automatically reports downtime to your status page. I started with my own uptime monitoring as the data s
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I keep a list here: https://maxrozen.com/examples-of-large-production-grade-open...
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    that IAM and vpc stuff? imagine not having to know it to deploy your stuff. imagine just having a repo of your web app, and just committing via git is enough to get it online, and scalable.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    24 year olds? Since when are they sending the senior consultants out on engagements like this! I lasted not even 6 months working in professional services, really woke me up to what "prestigious careers" really are.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I heard at a certain Professional Social Network company that some of their analysts would slam their db cluster with inefficient queries until it rebooted, and first one to rerun their query would finally get a result. Learn SQL ffs.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Maybe before covid/remote work was freely available. I recently interviewed around (in France), the low ball offers were 90k euro base.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Did you speak to potential customers in that time?
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    You can easily "game" the cut out by changing what the system thinks your tyre diameter is (depending on the system) Edit: not saying you should.