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Startups should run on cloud providers
Original EnglishThere are tools like Terraform that are suppose to make this easier, but often I ended up fighting it so much I started writing my …
Ask HN: What does your company do to reduce cloud cost?
Original EnglishWe've discovered that our backend is very sensitive to missing cache and that Elasticache is expensive but very reliable.
Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly
Original EnglishIn fact, in my experience, Rust has faster time to delivery than any other language I've used.
Ask HN: In what order did the best and worst periods in your career come?
Original EnglishThe demands for the job grew, but my salary and frequency of interesting projects did not (except for a brief period in 2008).
Ask HN: What project are you working on?
Original EnglishWe decided that rather than adding a text editor to a database client, it would be a lot easier to add a database client to …
Array Iteration Interview Problem
Original EnglishI forget where the stats are but I remember that in some cases things run 400 times slower if you use certain "NS" classes.
Choosing a solo-project database: include deployment and language tooling
After moving from familiar MongoDB to Postgres, a developer values deployment behavior and integration with Rust tooling.
Evaluate everyday development and deployment, not just data structures.