benjaminwootton

The other hidden cost when you are working with data hosted on S3 is the LIST requests. Some of the data tools seem very chatty with S3, and you end up with thousands of them when you have small filed buried in folders with a not insignifcant cost. I need to dig into it more, but they are always up there towards the top of my AWS bills.

Ensemble | Remote | Any Location | Contract | Cloud Data Engineers and Clickhouse Experts

We are a startup data consultancy working on real-time analytics platforms with a few early customers.

I am looking to make contact with experts in Clickhouse (ideally) or other high performance OLAP databases, together with streaming data and the AWS stack. This would be for contract/project based work delivered remotely.

In the first instance, please reach out with an informal email describing your experience in this space.

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The cost saving comes from the fact that Snowflake virtual warehouses by default time out after 10 minutes and this can be lowered, realistically to 60 seconds.

They must have been using very overprovisioned servers to run up $1 million per year in Snowflake spend for occasional 10 minute bursts of activity prior to the change.

I think this points more to poor and ungoverned use of Snowflake and Cloud than it does organisational dysfunction.

And as an adult. Friends is still our go-to after we tire of scrolling Netflix for something good.

People raise those sorts of numbers for web apps all the time. It actually doesn’t sound that big for such a broad hardware and software company with long and high touch sales cycles ahead of them.

I think sports suffers from fragmentation in the same way as other content.

To watch all the televised football games in the UK you need Sky Sports, TNT and Amazon Prime.

Even then you can only see half the games whereas in other countries almost all Premier League matches are televised meaning that geographical licensing restrictions are also in play.

I would happily pay a fairly significant fee to watch all matches conveniently, but it’s simply not available to buy.

Because of my career path spent almost entirely as a consultant and now working with lots of startups, I must have seen 100+ web application builds.

The productivity of Rails absolutely trounces JS-framework-de-jour in my experience. It’s almost certainly the framework I would be recommending for a CRUD app, which covers the vast majority of business software.

Open core and support packages are very established business models.

The OP has also hacked away on OpenFaas in the open for years, giving us a portable alternative to lambda. That seems to have a pretty big value prop considering how lambda ends up being fairly expensive at scale.

Though I don’t know their motivation for hiding pricing, I suspect every enterprise level deployment (for instance into an ISP) is pretty bespoke.

I feel like I stepped off frontend the treadmill and haven’t been able to catch up with frontend. React, Angular, Vue, Next, Nuxt, Svelte, Typsecript, Tailwind, Bundlers.

It feels like a mountain to climb to get my head around that lot!

Why is something like this published as a press release? Is it not an internal matter?

I think the fact that OpenAI fired the starting gun is a bigger factor than an industry wide conspiracy.

This is true for a significant percentage of VC backed businesses. Many could be great small businesses, but they get inflated beyond what is practical by investors seeking a return.

The founders $5m turnover business success is then relatively a failure at $30m and they are unceremoniously booted out.

Is there anything wrong with that?

When you’ve ticked off the money requirement then you can move onto higher level things and trying to change the world.

Maslow hierarchy of needs, and it’s probably better for everyone that it exists.

Very insightful comment. Most customers just want the problem solving. If you can’t find anyone to discuss and possibly pay for it being solved in a clunky way then software isn’t suddenly going to change that.

They have to work on the balance of probabilities though. It would be very long odds to sell a device, steal it back, then need to approach Apple for help unlocking.

They can tie your purchase to a serial number. It’s listed on the invoice. That should constitute proof in my opinion.

This might be the first time that an Instagram link has been posted on HN, but this LinkedIn parody made me laugh today - https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw2_JREu_PY/

What makes it worse is that it’s tied to your professional life, so you can either opt out (which is not without its downsides) or you have to play the game in the same ridiculously fake way.

LinkedIn is frankly ridiculous nowadays. The Reddit LinkedInLunatics is good for a laugh.

I think this is it. Surely almost everyone aspires to do it at some point, but finding and winning the right type of customers is very difficult.

I would do this, but not just to deceive. Having a small team you work with will address some of your potential customers concerns about your ability to scale.

It’s how I’ve been working lately. It’s mainly me the customer is buying, but I have a team of 3-5 trusted freelancers I work with. Customers don’t seem to bat an eyelid at that proposal.

Nah. Give the impression of scale if you can and need to, but I would draw the line at outright lying. If it doesn’t totally backfire then it’s dishonest. I would rather lose the deal.

But the advantages are - better for compliance, faster analytical queries, possible to upgrade people at different paces. I agree it would be painful from a database migration perspective but I can see situations where it might be the right call.

One table or schema per customer is possibly a valid model for segregation in a multi tenant system. I’ve never felt the need to do it before, but maybe it could work, if you squint?

I don’t even think it’s expertise. Assuming you have a good and valuable product, sales and marketing is still just extremely hard.

You have to remember that 90% of the startup successes we hear about are VC funded, so can make a significant loss on sales and marketing. To fund it from cashflow makes the game even harder still.

I saw a few clips of an interview with Lewis here - https://youtu.be/B2z8ikGLRh8?si=pqF-jUI4SeWsI4Fg

The interviewer maybe edits for effect, but Lewis seems very biased towards SBF.

This looks really nice and solves a real problem. One of the best niche SaaS ideas I've seen in a while.

Yes it’s marketing, but if you have a complex product or service offering, a short book can be a good way to get the thinking across.

The first use case will be to use AI to try to attract the other side. So your AI will pursue them, likely decide it doesn’t want them, then let them down gently.

And it will probably be interacting with their AI in some weird game.

Stop the world I want to get off!

I have worked in their offices all over the world for years. I generally leave my laptop and bag through the day and when I go for lunch. I've never had an issue or even heard of any criminal incidents in a WeWork. They have reasonable security, everyone should be a known member, and there are lots of cameras everywhere.

Many people who work there will also have their own lockable offices.