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Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month
Original Englishthe technology for its eServers." And this HN thread[2] has a guy claiming that in 1996 "we used Intel because with Sun servers you paid …
The 10x developer is not a myth (2013)
Original EnglishThe other took less than 3 months and costed something like 10k, including server cost (i used app engine).
Show HN: Lldap, a Simplified LDAP Server
Original EnglishI wrote a server process that talked LDAP, but it was essentially hard coded to support the 4 or 5 queries that we actually did. …
Show HN: Automated Rails development with Prelang
Original EnglishAnd I've built a business model to fund the project, by asking supporters to pay $19/mo, and offering my in-depth Rails tutorials as a reward …
Glider, Mac Classic game, open-sourced
Original EnglishTo find out that I could have gotten it for $99 academic pricing.
Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for long-running applications, services
Original EnglishThis means that we need to be able to support a wider range of deployment configurations, so that we can tailor a particular installation to …
Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?
Original EnglishI developed a saying: "You can either find someone good at customer service or someone knowledgeable.
We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software
Original EnglishI'm a paying customer and I use SpiderOak for some non-critical backup/synchronization tasks but I refrain from using it for anything sensitive because of this.
81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending
Original EnglishWe're a rather simple company though, less than a dozen services, we use Postgres and Redis for storage, everything deployed on Kubernetes.