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I agree, once we've removed the functional, silo'd data stores that have currently been built as services and we migrate from proprietary or silo'd service to centralised event-log we've.. Come full circle and arrived at fucking event bus' from the 80s. Sounds like SOA on MQ.

What solution are you trying to solve with an API Management Platform?

AWS, Google, Azure all offer products, or a collection of products to fill most needs that a typical platform would provide. You can self-host and try open-source products (some of which have a commercial/Enteprise offering too), but it really depends on your use-case and organisation.

If you're buying a product like Apigee, Tyk, Kong, MuleSoft, etc - it's usually to solve a specific purpose, but the product just happens to serve a few other use-cases (like out-of-the-box Authorization integration with AD for example).

Most customers I see going to market for these types of products really don't need functionality beyond network isolation, authentication and rate limiting. AWS API Gateway's free tier would probably meet the need of most of MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong and Tyk's customers - but consultants and sales people got involved.

Do you mean RESTful and RPC-based APIs peak has past? Because in the backend, everyone's still using and building those, it's just the way they're advertising and mainly doing integration is event-based (which sometimes is actually just RPC wrapped in a long-polling mechanism).

Or do you not see event-based architectures as APIs?

It’s similar to SYSTEM account access in Windows

You can set contacts and emergency numbers to bypass DND.

Any company that allows .reg files executed by non-admin users have bigger fish to fry. This method has been used for literally decades.

It's certainly not a cheap SaaS, but if you get enough value out of it - it makes sense. For your use-case, it sounds like it doesn't scale and you can't justify the pricing structure they've setup.

The best thing you can do is what you've already done. Post about it publicly, let your AE know.

Hope Appsmith, Budibase, Tooljet, Bubble, et al work out!

Salesforce has a limitation of 50,000 records for any operation. 1,000,000 records for read-only operations.

If you go beyond that, you talk to Salesforce about it, because they can make adjustments for you - and you can likely afford it.

Salesforce will bend over backwards and make internal engineering changes for large customers, including adjusting governor limits, dedicating hardware and running backend queries directly for the customer.

I love the demo. I love the tooling.

Demo tips: Name your queries. Following along "query1, query2, query3" is confusing. You should following best practice (where it makes sense) during demos, and you're definitely not doing it.

The selling point of this tool shouldn't be for the developer, it should be for the manager. So add some "here are some other examples of tools we've created in a similar amount of time through a similar process" - then have UX's for different companies, industries, regions.

Non-technical management need ideas. This demo doesn't give it beyond "hey look you can create a button to update a table". So what? Every ERP and CRM SaaS has that!

Having looked at their Features page, I really don't understand how they're accomplishing each of their listed features - even with the demos. It seems like the marketing and product list is written for a specific company, or person rather than some random person on the internet.

I have no desire to use their product. It doesn't do anything new, except maybe the way the interface is structured. If that's so great, why isn't it immediately obvious?

This is the modern internet. Make a killer demo. Make it fast. Make it fun.

This is boring.

I have been.

All the UK folks I know fled to the EU and work on visas. Germany, France, Norway, Denmark. Remote roles. All the multinationals who moved IT out of UK after Brexit..

UK just can’t compete. EU is bigger, and have more money.

This isn’t even the beginning of pain for Brexit.

Usually all start with 6 months and options to extend. Market is the same in Asia Pacific. I’ve yet to work with a client who couldn’t find something for me to do after, they all want to renew unless they’re axing heads across the board.

In which case they get me to work remotely and bill directly to the project, whilst funnelling communications through the project manager or tech lead. That way regular employees don’t see me, and they still get the work done.

That’s why we usually tie you into a 2 year contract with review points for expansion and adjustments, with looots of discounts up front. By year 5 you’re paying sticker price and paying our consultants for integration and Enterprise feature configuration.

Amazon does. And then they mix the stock in with regular stock.

Look at the hundreds of people online who bought Battlefield 2042 from Amazon. They ship a CD case with a slip of paper inside which has a code.

Hundreds of people tried to redeem codes that had already been used.

This happens to every code-consumption-based retailer. Thankfully Amazon still eats the cost of "doing business" currently.

The housing stock in New Zealand and prices for energy unless you're building a passive home from your own specs (which will cost 3-5x more than it would cost to build in EU or US due to materials and labour) will make New Zealand winters (a low of around 1-3C in most of the country) worse than what you experience anywhere else.

Most New Zealanders relied on wood fires until the 90s. Many still do. Most homes are drafty, which is okay during the summer - unbearable in the winter. New Zealand had to supplement older people and retiree heating costs during the winter, because too many old people were getting sick and dying.

Your income will be about half of what you make in the EU, and about a quarter what you'd make in the US. Your cost of living will be higher than both.

For OP, I'd recommend a cheaper part of Europe. You're still within flying distance from friends and family, but you can likely rent, buy or build property that fits your needs during the year.

The north part of Australia might be more suitable if that's something you don't care about - wages are stagnating in Australia, property prices are beginning to plateau (in some cases come down) - however materials and labour are still ridiculous right now.

Wages are stagnating. I expect they won't keep up with inflation. But alas, it's not a bad place to bunker down during a recession.

Every pro-league is going to end up doing this. Either through publicly visible time-delayed streams of the user's room, desk, front-of-user - or through a private entity dedicating a resource to manually review reports from proctored games who will only view suspicious or manually reported encounters/events.

Obviously this doesn't scale, so it'll be limited to paid leagues and tournaments.

Proctoring means someone watching over your shoulder and surrounding environment. That is, setting up cameras for a side-on view, and behind you - with visibility of your screen(s). Only relevant for tournaments.

Check out pcileech. Private hackers are using the FPGA module now. Some anti cheats are proctored these days, they see what you see to eliminate ESP/visual indicators. They’ve only just added mouse/hand aim proctoring (some DMA devices made automatic adjustments to the mouse direction with the help of hacked and custom mice - so you see an enemy left, your hand moves right, the mouse movement is overridden and moves left).

It’s very cool.

Non proctored hacking is totally defeated, the last available bastion is audio hacking (just continuously play beeps where enemies are so even if they’re hiding and not moving, even a proctored session would be able to make use of it).

I’m pretty sure they did this for thermals. It’s a really common issue to resolve thermal throttling by changing your power cable from left to the right side so the power from energy draw doesn’t cause heat to dissipate internally.

Why isn't this a Launch HN?

Age?

Verbal?

Can they look after themselves?

From your description I assume under 14, no, no.

Recycling water fountain somewhere near tiles or a drain if you can afford it. There’s the pot type which has water running down the sides, low maintenance and they’re very, very safe.

Honestly, I've found the best way to build camaraderie is getting drunk with your teammates, but YMMV on that way. Pretty much every team I've ever worked in, until we go out and have dinner and drinks, it's all-business, all the time.

Some folks are kind and open up about their lives, very inclusive, but they won't be the ones who make you feel the way you do.

You're an engineer. Half of the people in this industry have social issues or aren't exactly extroverted. They've met people like you before, and they'll know it just takes a bit longer.

Finally, it's okay. People are different. Give it a few more months, make a concerted effort to be more sociable (and maybe bring it up with your manager, they should organise something - if they don't, get out of there). If it doesn't work, find something else. You're hot shit right now.

They have offices in NZ, they are owned by a HK based entity.

Only if you know a VP or above. This isn’t a hurdle that can easily be overcome.

Change it to Launch HN!

This point of view is so tired. It's the same mindset of those who long for the days of BBS.

"I don't have a phone number, it's data only and my house doesn't have good reception" is what a number of ex-colleagues used when asked to be on-call at companies that asked for it, but gave you nothing for it.

For companies that paid you overtime, it often starts with guilt, "well the rest of the team did it last week/month/year, it's your turn". If they don't incentivize you enough to do it, don't do it.

Most tech companies make use of short retention policies for this exact purpose. 18 months to 2 years by default, otherwise anything longer goes through an exception approval process.