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How to build software like an SRE
Original EnglishWe use them because then what’s running in prodcution is 100% the same as is running locally when testing the application.
Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)
Original EnglishNT changed significantly over its lifetime. I deployed and supported all versions in production.
Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
Original EnglishAdding basic features or fixing the many bugs we discovered every day took hours or days.
Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times
Original EnglishSo our costs are based on the infra you use to run your application and we charge per millisecond of compute.
Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
Original EnglishI found one good client using it within two months.
Postgres Incremental Backup
Original EnglishAfter that incident we started taking base backups every 6 hours.
Send payouts with Stripe
Original EnglishBut that's not going to happen until third-party plugin support is vastly improved (I've already opened tickets on this months ago in their tracker with …
Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
Original EnglishNow, about 16 months post-shutdown, I still get emails from business owners who depended on us begging me to turn the service back on, and …
Building an $80k/month business with a software testing community
Original EnglishSorry to hear you had a bad experience on our platform, but a lot has changed and improved in the 1.5 years since you ran …