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To Google people, do you have any suggestions for startups how to start using your services for production workloads and: 1) Not having to take the $250 monthly fee per dev that needs to be able to contact you. Just increases the start cost massively for your services.

2) Not having to worry about being hell-banned and not being able to restore your account with Google, such as "guilty-by-association" for devs in PlayStore/gApps etc trickling over to closing down the whole account. We have read so many of those stories here on HN lately that I'm terrified to use Google for anything business related as we run the risk of losing everything.

The Cloud Run product looks great and would love to use it but the above two issues makes it a no go for us.

Sure, we could, but I suppose one of the big offers here is that it is managed and we don't have to deal with running it ourselves. GKE on AWS doesn't solve my (1,2) concerns.

There are two reasons why our company will not use Cloud Run, even though we would love to, the concept is just what we are looking for for our containers:

1) We are on AWS and expanding to Google is too expensive. Support costs for three engineers to be able to contact Google is $750/month for production workloads. At AWS we pay $200/month as our total spend on infra is about $2000/month. We are a startup with a tight budget, hence the increased spend is too tough to swallow even though we would love to use Cloud Run.

2) We have an Android app. Having seen how other companies have been hell-banned and shut down from having invited devs and other with flagged accounts we just don't dare to use Google Cloud while having an Android app should we end up on the automatic hell ban list at Google. Too risky.

There are a lot of articles here on HN explaining problems other people ran into, solutions and best practices. Just keep reading. I read for 30 min every day on new tech and ideas even if I don't use them regularly. Keeps me in the loop and a lot of the ideas and principles are portable to other projects.

I really don't see how Wordpress is a valid argument here. We run several business systems in PHP serving hundreds of thousands of users. Last time I used Wordpress was over 10 years ago for my personal blog. Haven't used it for anything else. PHP is great for us, regardless of how Wordpress performs.

It's always been popular and many of the big successful products are written in PHP. We see more and more startups doing PHP as well. I think a lot of devs have discovered that the new PHP versions let you have a very fast work flow.

PHPStorm makes everything so easy.

Agreed. We use it extensively and it lets us move very fast. Devs coming from Java and similar environments usually say something like "I thought I hated PHP but it's very nice now and I feel very productive in it".

Woa... I was evaluating this service a couple of months ago. The conclusion was, even if it looks nice the major downside was that the company hadn't been around long enough and we didn't know if they were profitable. These kinds of moves with sub-30 days during major holidays is really scary. I feel for everyone out there having to work during the holidays. I hope the CEO did this out of financial necessities. Otherwise he should be put on some type of do-not-purchase-from-these-founders-blacklist.

Windows VMs are a hassle to setup, install, manage licenses, expiration of such etc..

I wish they would have added the option to have the data persist. I have a bunch of software that I run only a few times per year, but I don't want to go through the hassle of re-installing it every time I need to run it. It would have been so much more useful if the data could persist.

Would be great to understand more about accounting requirements, recurring filings, costs of preparing and filing these and the business tax system in general. Also, are there any other demanding/taxis laws for a company with let's say 4 employees. What about sick leave, what about parental leave? What about if the first hire is underperforming, can you easily get rid of that person etc (important in startups with a handful of employees)?

At least in my case, I would want some information regarding that so I could decide if incorporating in France is a good idea, compared to let's say Estonia or the US.

Pivotal tracker/Slack

Very happy with the setup

Oracle LOL :)

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix?, Google

FAMG = Includes Microsoft

I was wondering the same thing..

I wonder how much extra revenue this will bring to AWS/GCP etc selling more instances to cover the performance loss on servers?

Yes, it is down for us as well.

Review status.bitbucket.org

Thanks for taking the time to do this writeup! Super fun to read and informative.

We were also impressed with DO's GUI and easy of use. We setup a few monitor servers on their network to measure uptime, latency, packet loss and similar metrics since we deal with audio streaming over UDP. Suffice it to say, it was a mess. So many micro-timeouts and tons of packet loss in small bursts.

For prototypes and small projects dealing mainly in TCP and if uptime is not really important then DO is great. For us, we stick to AWS / GCP for the bulk of our load including dev/testing etc as we want to have the environment as similar to prod as possible.

The problem was resolved approximately an hour after it started.

Thank you sir!

Regarding the math section, could someone please describe it like you were talking to a 5 year old?

1) Θ( log n = log / log n )

2) Θ(log log n)

How many instructions does the average engineer that does low-level work know by heart and need to know to work effectively with it?

I find the numbers somewhat off compared to how it is where I work. We are a small team mostly working remotely.

I would estimate that my team puts in (per person) on average about 5-6 hours per day writing code. About 2 hours go to emails, daily meetings, demos and architecture discussions etc.

I have very few interruptions during the day and usually 1-2 meetings pre-scheduled that are 30 min in duration each.

My phone is usually on silent for all notifications except calls and I turn off email as well when I need to focus. I take a short 5 min break every 45 min or so. I avoid HN/Facebook etc during the work day.

There is very little stress, we work towards a defined goal and have daily updates on the progress and what everyone focuses on. Deadlines are very rare.

Thank you! Appreciate the answer!

Comparing Swedish/Danish/English in the vocab:

http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=vocab_norms

Seems like data sample is too small to infer anything useful for Swedish.. but comparing Danish and English is interesting. Seems like Danes outperform or English kids underperform. Would be interesting to understand what the major driver is for the effect.

I suppose it also depends on what type of development you want to. A lot of fields won't require it, such as front-end, apps etc.. Other fields, such as AI/ML/advanced graphics etc a lot of the people working there usually has a college degree and more.

More specifically US-east1 seems to have a major outage. AWS Console dies on us as well.

I wonder how many companies are unable to deploy new updates now because they rely on Github?