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Ask HN: What are the alternatives to Amazon Lambda?
Original EnglishNote that we're using the max allowable memory on Lambda because that ~linearly decreased our execution time, but we use an average of 400 mb.
Live record of being fired from Cloudflare during a redundancy plan [video]
Original EnglishWhen I worked at a large, multi-national telecom, I started in desktop support (waaaaay back in the day!).
Ask HN: What does a non-programmer bring to a 2-3 person startup team?
Original English- meaty customer pipeline including 2 customers pre-sold
SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution
Original Englishbut it feels unclean: logically, it isn't a business requirement of customers, it is just a little hack I use to make their lives easier, …
Ask HN: Best payment processor?
Original EnglishIts to the point where our customer service chat knows what's going on and says things like "ask the customer to wait 2 minutes, it'll …
Okapi – A micro web framework for Haskell
Original EnglishBut while I was cleaning up the code I made a small change that improved its performance by an order of magnitude.
Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text
Original English1,500 paying customers later I still get emails from developers saying "I saw your site, looks like it took a lot of work, but come …
Let's Stop Talking About "Backups"
Original EnglishIn the 1980s I worked on a large DARPA project where a huge hit was taken because our admins never tried to restore from backups.
We just launched a new invoicing web app for under 10K. Check it out: Ballpark
Original Englishthe field), we're just pointing out that we managed to create a business by pulling a few extra hours a week over 6 months. …