tzaman

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by tzaman 10y ago
Try Google Cloud Console. Even better!
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by tzaman 10y ago
Can I use this in Docker/Kubernetes?
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by tzaman 10y ago
Thanks for the idea, I think I'll do just that and post the link here!
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by tzaman 10y ago
Coincidentally, just yesterday I spoke with a friend of mine who's working in a shop selling dietary supplements and she claimed that pretty much the whole western world suffers from a severe vitamin D deficiency. A few hous later, I o
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by tzaman 10y ago
I strongly disagree with this. Pet usually means there's a whole lot going on the server (or the container, for that matter), and you need more tools in order to maintain whatever that is. PostgreSQL for example. In order to run it &qu
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by tzaman 10y ago
Failed attempt of being funny aside. The struggle is real for many developers. Many (if not most) of us are self-taught and we like to explore how deep the rabbit hole goes, which inflicts many episodes of analysis paralysis upon us, and it
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by tzaman 10y ago
Here we go again. I click the link. Get to an under construction page. Click the link, get to Github, think "this is interesting" to myself. Read on. Find there's a project called Cerebral, which is a state management library
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by tzaman 10y ago
and yet he's making $15k a month off this project. Imagine the growth possibilities! :)
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by tzaman 10y ago
What struck me the most is going with the old and tried tools (PHP+MySQL). Nowadays everyone - myself included - is trying to have an excuse to try the sexiest JS framework of the day and most of us fail miserably to deliver anything useful
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by tzaman 10y ago
Hm, why would you need to render some pages in Rails? Why not just go React all the way and use Rails for API only. If you absolutely do need them, I would just separate them by routes.
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by tzaman 10y ago
Why would you couple Rails + React in the first place? We have a similar project and decided to just put everything React-related into "client" directory in Rails, then, once webpack builds production-ready files, it puts them int
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by tzaman 10y ago
Nope, but it illustrates my points perfectly. A company like Amazon should have hundreds of those, with real use cases that developers (or DevOps) care about. For instance, I have a Rails/Node/Go/whatever app. How do I deploy
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by tzaman 10y ago
I'm not referring to any specific offering, but just the sheer amount of ways to accomplish things on AWS - and the docs don't help, I urge you to compare (or even time) the process of following the docs in setting up AWS versus G
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by tzaman 10y ago
Two reasons really, the first is that AWS has become this bloated mess of "stuff", making it increasingly harder to use, because so much time is needed to either constantly look at it to see what's new/changed or vigilan
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by tzaman 10y ago
Agreed - primary motivation weren't savings, but much smoother UX with Kubernetes on Google. We're adopting container-based approach to development (and DevOps), so we explored alternatives, and chose Google Cloud.
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by tzaman 10y ago
On demand: m1.medium mostly for Rails and Node apps and db.m3.medium for RDS (Postgres). Now on GCE, we use Kubernetes, which means the type of instances is rather insignificant as they can be instantly scaled up when more resources are nee
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by tzaman 10y ago
Agreed, we have 10 instances on AWS, but it's hard to judge the complexity of the migration just based on that because these servers vary in size, requirements, and purpose. But all in all, yes, it is a fairly small scale migration.
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by tzaman 10y ago
I would say around 8, but then again, the goal was to use Kubernetes (which we do on GKE), so much of the time was spent configuring it, and we'd use at least some of that time even if we stayed on AWS's container service. [EDIT]
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by tzaman 10y ago
I can confirm that first hand; We're just moving our whole stack from AWS to GC and right now we're running everything in parallel with roughly the same amount of resources. AWS monthly bill: ~$1000, GC monthly bill: ~$600
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by tzaman 10y ago
For my L shape, it recognized a leg immediately (which was what I was supposed to draw)
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by tzaman 10y ago
I know it's somewhat a vanity metric, but this list should have GitHub stars listed for each project. Would save us some work :)
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by tzaman 10y ago
Apart from being very fun to play around with, is there a concrete problem this project solves? Or is it just "because we can" kind of thing? EDIT: after playing with "react" a bit, it seems that "third_party"
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by tzaman 10y ago
Read my reply below
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by tzaman 10y ago
We host PostgreSQL on GCE with two separate instances (master/standby) replicated with repmgr ( http://www.repmgr.org/ ). Then we have a service defined with custom endpoints that point to these two instances. There&#x27
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by tzaman 10y ago
True, but you can hardly call a company you only own 11% of - your company. It's someone else's. But then again depends what and why your doing it. If that 11% is worth enough to you (and the company is otherwise healthy), then yo
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by tzaman 10y ago
You can do HA on DigitalOcean, the question is whether you should do it yourself, and in most cases, the answer is a big NO.
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by tzaman 10y ago
That's odd, we've been using Docker for about a year in development and half a year in production (on Google Container engine / Kubernetes) and haven't experienced any of the panics, crashes yet (at least not any we coul
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by tzaman 10y ago
It may be my misunderstanding, but isn't 11% ridiculously low? As I founder, if I sold almost 90% of MY company along the way, I would feel like I didn't do good enough job of building it without relying too much on other investor
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by tzaman 10y ago
So true, which is why I find it kind of awkward when I say to young developers/business owners they should pay for a professional PostgreSQL hosting and they argue it's open source and they can host their DBs on a $25 (or less) Di
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by tzaman 10y ago
Not really, I can't access our production servers which are in US east. Can't access Intercom with which we provide customer support. Our clients are mailing us that payment provider doesn't work either. So we're losing

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