tjholowaychuk

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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Totally. I was kind of surprised there weren't really many other implementations, in Go etc. I ended up rolling my own columnar format since I don't need parity, but it would be great to have more implementations, I don't wan
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Yeah assuming nothing falls apart with the custom implementation maintenance-wise. Programmers have a hard time focusing on their real goals though, we often re-implement things that really aren't worth the time or money.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
If I can get costs down elsewhere I'll maybe just do "unlimited" on some of the accounts, where "unlimited" is some large arbitrary number haha.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
:D I wish SMS wasn't so awkward, you're pretty much forced to have a credit system since it's so expensive. I'll probably still do it at some point. Makes it awkward for the customer as well if you have to babysit the cr
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Yep, plus most engineering time is worth at minimum $60+/h, which would pay for a year or more with most of these services.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I wrote Apex Ping ( https://apex.sh/ping/ ) for those who want more features and/or don't want to waste the time to save a few bucks :D.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Looks cool! I like the release message stuff, I wanted to add similar to apex(1) at some point, not having a clue what the releases actually are in Lambda makes rollbacks a little tricky.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Three hours per day, not week :p. It's very doable, work smart not hard as they say!
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I have no clue, it seems uncommon in software, but personally I'd choose working 3 hours a day over 200k/yr any day. IMO having a small team constraint is powerful too, you really have to optimize things otherwise you're scre
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Indie Hackers is a great site! I have my first little product on there ( http://apex.sh/ping/ ), making just over 3k/m now (50% each month FWIW), sure it's not millions but now I have time/freedom to work
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Depends on the product I suppose, if it's niche enough you may not have big competitors at all. I choose to entire a SaaS market that is already monopolized but I'm still paying my bills. That's definitely something to watch
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Removed my "clueless" generalization. It's anecdotal, but most that I've encountered (relating to SaaS products) don't have much of a technical background at all, just throwing money at buzzwords, meanwhile they thi
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Another alternative: don't build something huge, don't get funding from VCs, build a comfortable business for yourself instead of a gimmicky trend that will be irrelevant in a few years. I feel like this is really underrated these
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
As someone who wrote Node for roughly 5 years, it's VERY hard to write robust Node code, I would never trust it to mission critical work personally. Go isn't perfect, and it'll likely remain that way but it's much better
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I haven't tested it extensively but if you boot up API Gateway and a hello-world Lambda function, the function itself takes maybe 1ms to run, while API Gateway seems to add roughly 150-200ms on top of that.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I've thought about adding a smaller plan, I still might at some point but it certainly reaches a level where it's not really worth it, especially since I want to provide equal support to everyone. I'll have to experiment with
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Thanks! Agreed, I have that on the list, quick sanity check is always good. Taking a bit of a break to work on other products but I'll keep adding to it.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I wrote the apex(1) tool and created https://apex.sh/ping/ with Lambda, in general it has been great, has scaled flawlessly since launch (granted I'm only doing ~8M requests / day). Conceptually I think it&#x
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
+1 for NSQ, it's not a magic bullet in terms of scalability but you can get quite far. When I was at Segment we were pushing an easy 2-3B messages per day through it, if not more with message "amplification" internally.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
If you're just getting into things Elm might be a good bet for front-end. Maybe you'll get fewer contract gigs but the current state of JS is a mess, might as well skip it (for now at least).
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I think it depends greatly on the cost of supporting the free plans, mine just went a little out of control, I was getting ~100 or more users per day. If it was really cheap to support them it might be worth the marketing side of things. An
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I (Apex Ping) went down the road of playing with newer more hyped tech like React etc, not really necessary for the project, and I can't say it saved any time (if anything wasted time) but still interesting. AWS Lambda on the other han
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Responded above, there was a free plan initially.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
There's a lot more to it than that, and I'm currently supporting ~2000 users on the free plan as well (though I'm phasing that plan out). Ping is running in 7 regions, has an Elasticsearch cluster for logging, another for the
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Global installs are fine IMO, what's not fine is lack of versioning. I would say for Node/NPM at least, the lack of global installs is a pretty big burden, you end up pulling in 500MB for a trivial application. The same versioning
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Congrats!
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I kindddd of feel this way about the "global" context as well, but it's one of those sketchy-yet-handy things haha. Though beyond react-router and redux using it I haven't touched it personally.
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Thanks man :D
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
I wanted something small that I could get off the ground without spending a year or two on development. It's also a fantastic fit for Lambda, and I had already built the apex(1) tool so it seemed like a decent place to start. As far as
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by tjholowaychuk 10y ago
Hahaha nope not annoying at all, I've always been on the backend sort of missing out on details regarding sales and marketing so it's interesting to get a better feel for this stuff. I'll have to keep an eye on the analytics

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