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As a more backend guy who does some frontend, the main thing I like about React over alternatives like Svelte, Vue and SolidJS is React Native. React is maybe not perfect for the web, but it’s very, very good, and it’s also quite good for m
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100%, I’ve done tonnes of (backend) performance optimization, profiling, etc. on higher level applications, and the perf bottlenecks have never been any of the things discussed in this article. It’s normally things like: - Slow DB queries -
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The compiled output seems pretty clean, but isn’t necessarily what you’d write by hand. e.g. adds things like anonymous functions called immediately, when you’d probably just write a named private function, that sort of thing.
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Yeah, I like a lot of the language features here, especially: - Everything is an expression - Pattern matching - Spread in any position - Dedented strings/templates However, I wouldn't use it, because the chance of it becoming aba
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Many popular NoSQL DBs do support joins now. However, the fact that with NoSQL, you tend to structure your data so joins aren't necessary IS one way of solving the problem relational DBs have with "join performance". The prob
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It’s not better. The numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/sudh3r/mary_kays_i... ~98% are making ~$255 or less PER YEAR in commissions. And then losing a tonne on expenses. Then the ~2% maki
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The problem is winning the RFPs. There are some core features and integrations that they really, really want. If we don’t have them, and won’t give a firm commitment to building them, we lose the RFP. “We’ll work collaboratively and evolve
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Depends on the company. When I worked for a larger company with a pretty mature product, this was true - deadlines were internal and arbitrary. It also helped that the product was more of a “nice to have” for our customers than “absolutely
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Yeah, I’m a big fan of strong, static types, and was a big JS hater pre-ES6 (still a light JS hater), but I gotta say, TS is damn good. It really is almost as type safe as a classic strongly, statically typed language, and almost as product
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Founding a company at 19 that hits some big milestones, and comes close to success despite ultimately failing, is still very impressive to me. Nobody bats 100, especially at the age of 19. Also, from the outside, he seems to have been an im
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He’s just 37 years old, I’d say his accomplishments are pretty impressive for 37! He dropped out of Stanford in 2005, at 19, to co-found Loopt. Yeah, it ultimately failed, but over 7 years they got 5 million users, raised $30 mil in funding
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Very cool, ty for the responses!
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Ah cool! So like, if I used some Open Telemetry libs for more manual instrumentation, would it "play nice" with the automated instrumentation? Like say: - I instrument a Scala app with Odigos, and it handles say 90% of the metrics
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My take is that political discussion/disagreements on HN are often avoided/stamped out, to prevent it taking over the site. If anything stands out about HN politically vs. the rest of the internet, it's mostly a "we don&
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Very cool! I'd imagine the challenge here is the long tail of tracing and metric needs. I'm thinking things like: - For the JVM, do you support things like thread pools and execution contexts well? e.g. say part of serving up a re
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Seems like GitHub, Stack Overflow and Outlook have all been having problems/flakiness/short outages today. Common thread - Microsoft? Azure having issues, or some such thing? Edit: actually, maybe it was this (Fastly) - https:&#x
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Are you referring here to Apple/Swift/iOS/OSX, and Microsoft/C#/Windows? If so, good point, if you're writing iOS mobile apps, or OSX/Windows desktop apps, you're pretty tied to Apple/Microsoft r
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The author specifically calls out Google/Go, Apple/Swift and Microsoft/C#, around tools that do compilation and package management spying on you. It's worth noting that this potential exists in both corporate-controlled
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The startup I work at is definitely Netflix culture inspired, I think they remain a pretty popular “culture role model.” Wasn’t sure if it’d be for me at first, as it’s so different from where I was before. Previous company I was at, great
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OP’s approach has fast cache updates, but it’s still eventually consistent. Like, the whole flow of PG trigger, handled by Ruby server, then writing to a file, that happens outside the flow of POST comments, and could sometimes finish after
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So, you’ve got a static-ish page, a Ruby server, Postgres and NGINX. The page both POSTs and GETs comments from the backend via an Ajax calls. All very conventional, but then you’re worried about traffic spikes, and to deal with that, the c
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Sounds like you should join an early stage startup - like 5-15 people in the whole company. There will be lots of rapid development of new features, lots of outages, and minimal process. There will still be some refactoring/rearchitect
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Yeah, zero doubt investing in robust, automated E2E tests in that situation is key. I’d also add: - Get the “change engine” running smoothly (productive and reliable local dev environment, reasonably fast/reliable build/deploy job
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I’ve heard Google are quite rewrite heavy, as an intentional strategy. Not that they rewrite everything all the time, but that they’re quite open to rewriting significant sized systems, and do it quite a bit more than most tech companies. N
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We're using BigQuery as our data warehouse, with a dashboarding UI (Metabase) connected to it. Not looking to do local analysis (clickhouse-local), this is about dumping data into a central data warehouse. The data warehouse could ind
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Ask HN: Simple No-Code EL Tool for Postgres > BigQuery
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We’ve had the same problems. We use Twilio for SMS based OTP login, lost lots of money to toll fraud, and spent lots of time putting up various mitigation strategies to reduce it. Now we only lose a bit of money to toll fraud, but if was lo
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My thought was more timing - there’s so much that’s URGENT for a young startup, is cost cutting really urgent, something you have to do NOW, when the current savings are just $110/month? Part of what allows startups to survive is ruthl
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Ah fair enough, that’s a pretty small amount of work!
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Author mentioned here that they went from $200/month on AWS to $90/month of Fly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34242923 Pretty tiny cloud costs either way, probably safe to assume they’re a small, early sta

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