Mechanics of Building a Carpooling Service (2017) | Hacker News Reader

Mechanics of Building a Carpooling Service (2017)

sysadmincasts.com

OP here. FYI, I put this project off for a bit, but I am working on it again. Happy to get feedback or answer any questions.

ps. always interesting to see the HN traffic effect: https://imgur.com/yPMgwql

Can you tell me about your server setup if you don't mind? Where did the graphs come from?

Sure, I'm using GCP to host the website. Then, I'm using Docker, K8s, and then a LB sitting in front. The graph is from GCP's CDN that tracks requests per second and CDN hits/misses [1]. It's a pretty sweet setup since all of the heavy lifting is done at the CDN. You could do something similar on the CDN side with AWS using CloudFront.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/cdn/

Thanks a lot for that. How much does it cost for you for your site?

ooooh. the text is a transcript. i was going to say, tighter editing would be good, but as a transcript, yeah it works.

it's really good. my only comment is meta. sorry, there is no way i am going to start on a 30-episode series and have you pull an ABC 'Lost' on me. Produce all of them, then launch it all at once.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I 100% agree. I'm thinking something like 3-5 episodes now, and I'll do it over a week. Then if you wanted to follow along you can OR just view it at the end of a week. Makes it way easier to see how it works quickly (or use the demo app / view the code).

I hate to point this out, but it's been 10 days from re-launch and you're still on just that first episode from 2017.

are more episedes of that series available? I can only find the first one and the date's february 2017.

I'm working on them now. They should be out in about a month.

geo-special?

That's pretty funny. Updated to geospatial, thanks.

Curious, how did you do the transcription? Were you actually working from the "transcription", or did you speech2text the audio and do some fixing-up?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com