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If amazon loses my confidence I think I'd start shopping at Walmart before I switch infrastructure platforms... I see AWS as a century old business, just in the same way PG&E and utility companies of the 20th century have developed a stronghold in energy distribution.

But if I had to host one myself, http://nsq.io/ is the way to go.

Are you deleting messages after you receive them? I haven't run into any race conditions but I suppose if I did, I'd use redis's HyperLogLog or something similar to see if I've already processed the message.

I have no doubt that whenever Salvatore releases a distributed, Redis queue feature it will be amazing. But if you're on AWS, SQS is a solid at-least-once delivery queue service that is hard to beat. (at least when you don't want to manage your own redis machines)

The scrolljacking really makes for a terrible UI/UX. Designers: why is this something we're seeing more often? What is the main benefit?

Congrats guys! Was excited about this company from day 1. A great founding team and an amazing service. Now go take out FedEx!

Just found this while doing some performance benchmarking around different ways to write a JS loop. The results were quite surprising: https://slack-files.com/T02874CDH-F029WFR7C-fc5594

YC S13: Casetext is similar

Would be an amazing command line app.

Aeromail

I hope SROs in San Francisco get as much administrative attention as short term rentals. Decade old legislation severely hindering the development of downtown SF.

If you think about the sheer number of logical load balancers they have to update (tens of thousands?) and the time it took them to update all of them, I'm incredibly impressed by their quick turn around.

I have to give AWS credit for updating their systems so quickly. Despite a bit of public anger over their lack of transparency (1) they managed to update thousands, if not tens of thousands of OpenSSL installations in their datacenter. Truly impressive devops at scale.

(1) https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=149690

We run our forums on DO as well and it hasn't caused a hiccup at all. Uptime has been great for me, but at this point there isn't enough tooling around DO for me to be comfortable with doing more than just simple web sites

i think this just goes to show that the DO platform is not suitable for sites that require uptime. The price point justifies the simplicity, but sometimes simple isn't enough. AWS still has everything a startup needs to run their stack

Which bakeries source your breads? The Mill? Tartine? Acme? Would love to know which before I buy! (though I might buy anyways because I think this is awesome). Awesome Webflow site that is simple and to the point.

Hi there, Webflow founder here! We actually have a free trial, which lets you design and export as many sites as you'd like in a 2 week period. If you're still working on your site after your trial is over you have the option of upgrading to the Personal plan which gives you the ability to export your sites. You can cancel at any time and we never delete your work, so you can come back a year later and redesign your site again.

Before I clicked through I thought the subtitle would be, "you don't need to be smart to be wealthy". Still sort of applies.

How are you guys different from apptimize? http://apptimize.com/

Most founders/entrepreneurs have unicorn jobs, but it comes with a big caveat: being your own boss. Not as easy as it sounds.

We here at Webflow went through great lengths to implement the command pattern in our web designer. It has definitely paid off when we tell our users they can just hit Cmd+Z and Cmd+Shift+Z anytime they make a mistake.

That said, it's really difficult for webapps to fully support undo/redo. A lot of the web is transactional, and different actions trigger follow on actions. GMail does a really good job with its undo, but there's a reason it goes away after 10, 15 seconds!

IMHO, it's hard for these client side frameworks to get much steam in Angular's wake.. Though Thorax is much easier to start, I think over time Angular's power will make it the dominant front end framework out there

if you're using stripe, make sure to recycle those keys if you have them checked into your repo

I've also interviewed lots of intellectual "CS theory" types. PhDs, etc. In most cases, they have not worked in real software engineering environments that necessitate comments for simple HTML forms. Just IMHO, I don't think it's a huge knock, as some of these candidates can turn into game changers for your company.

This is ridiculously unnecessary, and very confusing for new team members and devops. Hostnames should be descriptive and help describe the machine's location and responsibility in the network topology. Like webserver01a (nginx, first machine in LB, us-east1a).

Sure it's not cutesy as "pikachu" or "bobasaur", but it will sure make your nagios/copperegg dashboard make lot more sense. And when shit hits the fan you won't think your servers are cute, despite their clever names.

There are so many typos in this article that it reads like a FB post

If you're a believer in security by obscurity, then this isn't the way to go :)

s3cmd is battle tested and hasn't had any memory issues for me. (100 buckets, ~40GB each bucket)

There are definitely issues with network connectivity between AZs as well as public internet connectivity.

Just curious, what's sendhub's architecture? How many nodes? How many heterogeneous nodes?

Certainly: a node + mongo stack, and the designer was built using knockout.js