stemuk

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by stemuk 8y ago
This reminds me of the old MongoDB 'issue' where MongoDB was accused of being insecure because developers failed to secure their database instances properly. Aside from that, Firebase has learned from their pre-aquisition time and
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by stemuk 8y ago
You might be interested in this talk [1] from Dart Conf that highlights code sharing between Flutter and Angular Dart. The general take-away is that code sharing is possible, it requires however a strict separation of UI related and busines
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by stemuk 8y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to just delete the 'idetifiabel' parts in the database in order to be GDPR compliant? If you for instance save all the user data like user preferences under a random userId, and then delete the persona
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by stemuk 9y ago
What exactly is a style aggregator?
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by stemuk 9y ago
It is, that is also where the name is coming from (Firebase + Datastore = Firestore). Firestore also differs a lot from Cloud Spanner, most notably in the way that it can be used directly on the client, whereas Cloud Spanner is meant to be
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by stemuk 9y ago
Great explanation, thanks for taking the time to write this down!
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by stemuk 9y ago
Looks promising! Is it implementation wise more comparable with Flutter (flutter.io) or Cordova?
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by stemuk 9y ago
Maybe a site like gwern.net is generally less suited for A/B experiments like that because of the unique look and speed 'HTML only' sites have. Sites like cnn.com or yahoo.com are generally much more crowded and colorful, so
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by stemuk 9y ago
Looks pretty great, are there any demo apps available to play with?
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by stemuk 9y ago
I wasn't able to use any of the components on my android phone, so mobile friendliness doesn't seem to be a priority here.
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by stemuk 9y ago
https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928552251458818048 ETA: 15 min
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by stemuk 9y ago
What framework did you use for the Material Design look? Pretty cool website!
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by stemuk 9y ago
True, what I really love about polymer is https://webcomponents.org , basically a collection of webcomponents that can be used either individually or in combination without much setup. This creates great looking results pretty fa
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by stemuk 9y ago
It is definitely true that pagination could be much easier. The way it currently works however seems fine to me: You query a node with say the rate limit of the first 30 children. Then you store the key of the last result, and use it as the
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by stemuk 9y ago
As far as scalability goes the open-source solution doesn't seem too promising. Beeing capped at 10.000 connections seems like a very low limit to me, especially considering that the blog post complained about 100.000 connections not b
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by stemuk 9y ago
The single site I visit the most when I am on mobile is Hacker News. The reason is simple: It's very fast and well structured, and most importantly it is free from bloat, no ads or unnecessary menus. I feel like Hacker News is pretty m
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by stemuk 9y ago
What do you think of their more 'server-like' offerings like the PX61 line [0]? What do I have to expect in terms of downtime and component replacements? [0] https://www.hetzner.de/de/hosting/produkte_roo
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by stemuk 9y ago
Ok, thanks a lot. Since we're on it, is there any open-source software available that is specifically targeted at easily setting up storage servers (maybe with an S3 like SDK)? I found myself pretty much forced to use GCS because of a
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by stemuk 9y ago
I am really reluctant on setting up my own server cluster on bare-metal right now, can you recommend some specific open-source tools to manage and monitor these clusters?
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by stemuk 9y ago
As far as I understood it the OpenStack software will be automatically updated on the releases of the LTS channel, so calling the product dangerous seems like an exaggeration to me.
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by stemuk 9y ago
True, but for the sake of easy management I would still imagine the OpenStack setup to be better. Hopefully they will add some configuration options that make it possible to choose every server type in their lineup to be configured as OpenS
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Hetzner Private Cloud(hetzner.de)
60 points by stemuk 9y ago|83 comments
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by stemuk 9y ago
I really appreciate the input, however the note taking example mentioned above was just a test project of mine. The actual project needs real-time synchronization, which isn't something I was expecting pouchdb/couchdb to be capabl
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by stemuk 9y ago
In particular I would love to see the query size change in the real-time database. This could either be achieved by compressing the JSON response, or by calculating the traffic differently. As a user of Firebase about a year ago I saw much,
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by stemuk 9y ago
It is hard to believe that tools to prevent overage use in the $25 plan haven't been developed earlier. All the necessary components were there: It has always been possible to track the use of resources per user, and it has at least in
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by stemuk 9y ago
Sometimes I am wondering who is actually steering the discussion to a certain point. I wouldn't go so far to call it censorship, but if the Google employees take over the comment section, it is very hard to call the flow of information
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by stemuk 9y ago
True, I used to be really interested in Firebase and their set of products. But because of several pretty bad experiences related to vendor lock-in and (very) high prices I switched over to an open source alternative. It might not be so wel
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by stemuk 9y ago
No, because most self-hosted services are 10-20x cheaper than comparable SaaS offerings. In the realtime space Firebase is particularly known for being really expensive for the scalable plans (blaze plan).
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by stemuk 9y ago
I think it's kind of weird to see Google/Firebase team members swarming around in dozens on HN when they present a new feature, which seems to me like a coordinated marketing effort by Google. But once problems arise or they get c
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by stemuk 9y ago
I would also doubt that it would be worth it even without keeping in mind the risk of loosing the service. Google is usually pretty clever when it comes to TOS Agreements.

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