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Re:Kubernetes at What3words by warp_factor on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:54PM (#20184472)
I agree and I'm always surprised to see how complex the backend of very simple businesses are.

I'm always amazed to find 10 Infra engineers and 15 backend engineers to maintain a very simple webApp for example.

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Re:Kubernetes at What3words by alexandercrohde on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:28PM (#20186404)
100%. This could be done entirely in JS on the client in probably < 5k characters.
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Re:Kubernetes at What3words by warp_factor on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:07PM (#20186673)
Not sure if you are being sarcastic but they still need to keep their algorithm secret so client side wouldn't work.
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Re:Kubernetes at What3words by jjeaff on Friday June 14, 2019 @10:47PM (#20188144)
Wikipedia says they use a dictionary of 40,000 words. So it's not going to fit in a few kb.
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