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PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL
Original EnglishBecause I've run weekly backups and restores of SQL Server databases for the past several versions for many years, and had no problem with a …
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (2010)
Original English:-) But I'm happy to report the grand experiment has been a modest success, we are profitable (by a small amount).
Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio
Original EnglishI use a few for testing, like DIDLogic, CallCentric, and VoIP MS.
Bing AI Can't Be Trusted
Original EnglishI'm using it to draw a sales and marketing strategy.
Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store
Original EnglishSelling it for half price, with the cable, instead of, say $20, was the key to making it look legitimate.
How Doomed is NetApp?
Original Englishwe selected it for a small online bank (80 employees,500 financial advisors, 20-30k customers) as crucial part of our infrastructure. …
Your SaaS product is too cheap if you never lose customers because of pricing
Original English- The paid feature (more than one week of history) is useless to me, because by Friday I need to take all those hours and …
Ask HN: Help me pick a front-end framework
Original EnglishFor testing, I use Playwright with Cucumber-js, but with a twist.
Ask HN: Why is everything a SaaS product?
Original EnglishI have worked on teams where every commit to master just gets deployed to production within 5 minutes.