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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
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Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC
Original EnglishI prefer to plan for actively manage the possible failure modes and to detect and correct quickly anomaly.
Profitless Prosperity
Original Englishthe online prices are no better, then Amazon provides no benefit, and a 10% price increase could result in a much larger drop in sales. …
Hadoop “fails us”
Original EnglishWe can build better data infrastructure for data scientists, but in practice it's hard to sell "10x easier to use" into organizations with hadoop or …
Recurly billing down -- some customer data lost
Original EnglishI don't know if any of my customers are affected yet, however now they have failed to bill a customer when they should have, double …
KISSmetrics' bizarre pricing decision
Original EnglishAnything below $100 does not make a lot of sense because even with just 2 hours of support per month (which I think is reasonable …
Ask HN: How to send SMS cheaper than Twilio?
Original EnglishI built this originally to meet the needs of my brother's business and his customers.
Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff
Original EnglishWith this in mind we made a set of targeted cuts that enable a more rapid path to profitability while maintaining high growth.
Tooling has improved for ambitious software developers
Original EnglishIt’s not perfect, but I absolutely love it, and it’s made my life so much easier.
Ask HN: Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now?
Original EnglishThis is why we start seeing ludicrous distribution agreements in place to maximise profits so that the economics of this weird system can work [2], …