peteridah

Nothing wrong with mounting volumes, but certainly not for production DB's, at least not at this point. I don't have much insight to share on this, besides my intuition based on several years working on HA systems. The clusterhq folks are working on this problem though, and I am following keenly.

We decided not to use docker containers for our postgres DB in production; Volume mounts just don't make me sleep easy. We use an S3-backed private docker registry to store our images/repositories.

WhatsApp has become the defacto medium of communication with my friends and family in Africa, emerging way ahead of phone numbers, sms, facebook et al. I am not thrilled by the service, but if you want to stay in the loop, you have to join the bandwagon.

I believe that Google's external cloud offering leverages the platform already in use internally, and is not a wholly seperate platform/product. At this stage of entry, google not only has to provide a compelling alternative to AWS, but also compete with private and domain-specific cloud offerings that many businesses are exploring.

Vagrant is an awesome tool for CI. I have used it extensively with Jenkins to provision environments, AWS deployments and Digital Ocean Servers. Recently I have used vagrant to easily manage OSX 10.8 guests on vmware-fusion, as the demand to provision environments for ios-related development is on the increase. I am not aware of any other tool that makes this easier. Vagrant RAWKS!

For someone like me with relatively new django skills, I felt the book gave me a very good feel for best practices used in the community; I feel the authors did a good balancing act of informing readers of the best options available while being firmly opinionated where necessary.

This is a good initiative and something I have had on my todo list for a while. If I understand correctly, you are trying to target the african tech/startup community. I wouldn't want to see it become yet another political forum as some of the posts are pretty off-topic. The true value of hacker news is in the community and building that out for Africa is the real challenge/opportunity here. Would be glad to help where I can.

This is one reason I have remained a contractor - I simply will not live my life absorbing company BS; I have honed the survival skill of detecting downward spirals early and quiting responsively.

I am an African currently living in Europe. When you think that my home country ( just 1 out of 54 in Africa ) is made up of over 500 tribes which were really separate and distinct nations pre-colonializiation by the British, you come to realize that any generalization made of a continent is rarely (if ever) a representation of the observed set.

I just realized my earlier post http://code.google.com/p/swfk/ is by the same author

I came across Snake wrangling for kids a few months ago http://code.google.com/p/swfk/ I haven't given it a good run as my son is still 3yrs old