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colinjfwon Show HN: PRHero is a better UI for pull requests

I think as long as gitlab has a diff API and a file list API it would be pretty simple. Unfamiliar with their APIs though.

colinjfwon The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)

Not alien to me, likely younger.

colinjfwon What skills are most crucial for running small internet companies?

Thanks ChanningAllen for the great work with indiehackers. This kind of content is my favourite to read :)

colinjfwon Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I've run DevOps for a few organizations and learned quite a bit through that.

Ultimately you can engineer your systems, even if they are quite complex, to be manageable by a single person. It's not one thing though. It's years of experience and gut feel. It's also totally distinct from technology.

Some things that come to mind:

- use queues for background tasks that may need to be retried. If things go down and you have liberal retry policies, things should recover.

- use boring databases. Just stay away from mongo and use something like rds which is proven and reliable.

- be careful in your code about what an error is. Log only things at the error level you need to look at.

- test driven development. Saves a ton of time.

colinjfwon A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster

One big thing I like about redis is that it is single threaded.