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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
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Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
Original EnglishWe used GCS (like S3 for GCP) for storing prometheus backups (via thanos) at $previous_job.
Google’s in-house desktop Linux
Original EnglishI use testing+unstable (I didn't know that backports exists, thanks) + self compile some software that doesn't exist in either or is too old.
Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
Original EnglishTo make dataset creation and management easier, I also wrote a custom Terraform provider for Coriaria.
What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer
Original EnglishI have been in a situation like that, when I worked for a company that had me managing 12 to 30 clients directly.
Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base
Original Englishbut is particularly undesirable given parallelism serves no other purpose beyond startup speed optimization (for which process checkpointing I maintain is a better solution). …
Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
Original EnglishAs a one man IT department, in 15 months I reduced my annual budget from $2.3 million to $600K, cleared up 500 old tickets, and …
Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
Original EnglishMaybe it would be easier if this was 'it' when I started learning as sometimes it's difficult to forget and relearn.
Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6
Original EnglishEdit: I've used MySQL extensively and only started for now 2 years to use PostgreSQL, and though I have more knowledge in MySQL optimization and …
Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
Original EnglishThen at FedEx, in a rush I wrote some simple software that produced nice fleet schedules and literally saved the company.