pauldbau

We used to use Skobbler, which was great until they basically stopped working and went silent. For the past 18 months, we've used Thunderforest (it's an OpenStreetMap PaaS) and they're great. Solid uptime, good maps and the pricing is amazingly good. Andy - the guy who runs it - is super helpful and can also put together custom map styles (which we've taken up).

You get to replace the over-engineered P&P crap that is WCF, Entity Framework and WebAPI with an extremely practical, elegant, fast and no-nonsense set of libraries focused on doing their specific job extremely well.

If you hate the current MS direction of having to reference a million DLLs into your project (i.e. ala NPM), then you will love ServiceStack's cleaner, less cluttered approach.

Felt like I was watching an episode of Silicon Valley, just needed the Hooli logo at the end. Think I threw up a little at some parts (am allergic to cheese), great comedy though, would recommend A++

Corrected ;)

Title is clickbait and inaccurate - they raised €550k at 100,000 users. So they bootstrapped until 100k users (still a great achievement), but hardly to 4mil users as the title would suggest.

Out of interest, how does Win 10 compare with Mac OSX in terms of being able to install and change default browser? Given Apple's penchant for lock down, I'd expect it's much the same as Windows?

Yeah aware of ElephantSQL but the concern is lack of SLA and lack of big company backing. If you guys disappear, what happens to my databases since they run on your subscription, not mine. Hence why having an IBM backed Postgres on Azure is attractive - even though big companies can be frivolous, there's a comfort in knowing they're less likely to go out of business.

+1, except would awesome to see this on Microsoft Azure. The current SQL database as a service offering on Azure is expensive with mediocre performance. A highly available Postgres as a Service offering backed by a big co like IBM would be most welcome on Azure.

Seconded - there are some interesting/challenging social dilemmas ahead for the 1st world in particular.

I think this about sums up the quality and obvious bent of this article: http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/57216937.jpg

The key paragraph from the post RE:Mono is:

"we’ll make .NET Core great for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. This also enables the Mono community to innovate on top of the leaner .NET Core stack as well as taking it to environments that Microsoft isn’t interested in."

Seems like a pretty clear split - MS will cover the server-side + Win UIs, while Xamarin handles the other plats (IOS, Android, PS4 etc).

This plays to the strengths of both companies, and I would not be surprised if MS has some security in place - e.g. some kind of first option to buy Xamarin should another suitor come calling.

I for one am extremely excited about having MS supported ASP.Net on Linux.

Mono is a great community effort, but the server side has always lagged Windows pretty heavily. Having the same level of API and implementation support at a core level on Linux will be awesome.

Shall be interesting to see how this affects IIS market share in 5-10 years time.

For .NET / SQL Server people, check out GuidCombs if you want better Primary Key performance. These are a great way of making GUIDs sequential for database use, giving indexing performance close to ints on SQL Server.

I imagine this approach could also work on Postgres and other dbs that have made GUID/UUIDs a first class data type. You'd just have to understand how that database applies its indexing algorithm.

Description of the GuidComb approach here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=25862

GuidComb implementation in C# (from NHibernate core) here: https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/blob/master/sr...

You should definitely also check out ServiceStack. Dapper-like ORM, amazing web service capabilities and awesome serializers all in one place. Supports everything too (Mono, Xamarin etc).