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Re:Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen on Saturday June 06, 2026 @10:50AM (#48425657)
Love for Mollie - and literally had this exact theme last year at work. Stripe implemented, then customer A couldn't use it due to US base, so went to Adyen, built integration, rejected as less than $5 million as first responder said, then went to Mollie.

Only gripe is no embeddable checkout but its not a huge deal, and they have superior test platform than even Stripe. The test cards are right there in slide in panel, and you have option to select paid/cancel/fail etc to test different outcomes.

Re:A Decade of Have I Been Pwned on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:31PM (#38521949)
When you know how old someone is by the fact they don't know any of those things.
Re:AWS SNS vs. SQS – Main Differences on Friday May 27, 2022 @10:44AM (#31530241)
Weird example, do people actually use multiple consumers doing different things to a single message? You just queue multiple messages with different properties and consumers process things the same way.
Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:15AM (#26272117)
Think thats AWS Fargate, but admittedly i don't do a lot with Heroku.
This is a fantastic feature.

Perfect for a use case I have currently which I built a custom Lambda function to execute.

The one missing piece is that I don't see any way at the moment on how to deal with queue message attributes. I use these to contain critical meta data across messages of different types with with cross cutting information. For example. "A tenant identifier" for a multi-tenant scenario.

That data is lost with a pure subscription as I understand it.

Re:Ask HN: How do we build the new remote education system on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:40AM (#25761267)
I work in this area and the answer to some of your questions are really already available. Rubrics/CASE/CLR/Learning Outcomes etc are known within the teaching community. Their implementation in the digital space is where you are seeing the gap. A traditional classroom environment doesn't always translate into a digital one for the reasons you specify, but thats not the only way to do it.
Re:AWS Cloudwatch Metrics Global Outage? on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:48AM (#24885311)
Looks like metrics coming through now, but delayed by about an hour.
Re:.NET Memory Performance Analysis on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:51AM (#24430627)
Pretty sure this is the person who is one of the architects on the Garbage Collector in NET.
Re:Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:52AM (#24304808)
Depends on the book. I read a lot, and if I am trying a new author out or a book I am not sure of, a hardback at £20 is a bit of a risk compared to kindle 99p perhaps.

I genuinely want to support local businesses, and I make the effort to buy local from Waterstones whenever possible. But it's not always feasible with the amount I buy. I have many thousands of books, including those on Kindle. I don't have physical space for them otherwise.

Re:AWS London – Network connectivity issues? on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:33AM (#24269868)
I have an ELB API operations issue on my dashboard, the two together means new tasks can't get healthy. So we lost tasks in the failed AZ and new ones in a healthy AZ can't receive traffic.
Re:AWS London – Network connectivity issues? on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:57AM (#24269671)
I have issues with Slack also, people not receiving messages in channels.
Re:AWS London – Network connectivity issues? on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:53AM (#24269650)
Nothing on status board, but having serious issues with EC2/ECS Fargate and Network connectivity.

Can't start EC2 instances, and failed tasks for multiple production accounts in London.

Anyone else experiencing issues?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020) on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:05PM (#24041169)
CDSM | Senior developer | Full-time | Remote/OnSite | Wales, UK

https://www.cdsm.co.uk/

CDSM is an eLearning company based in South Wales (United Kingdom). Our goal is to help children/adults with learning and training in school and coporate settings.

We have a varied customer base, ranging from small businesses to nation states.

We are looking for experienced/talented developers to join our team.

We run our environments via AWS. Our tech setup is React/Typescript front end, and a NET Core backend. MongoDB + Elasticsearch + Redshift for storage.

job posting is on Indeed @ https://bit.ly/3go9ml6

Re:Ask HN: Problem with Newrelic on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @03:41AM (#23984285)
Not just you. Same problem for me.
Re:Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking on Saturday July 18, 2020 @05:19AM (#23880154)
Live in a world where most people connecting to my website dont have reliable internet connections and low quality mobile is actually pretty standard.
Same. Think it just got snowballed
Re:How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:26AM (#23176489)
Its also coming up to exam season and summer holidays in a lot of places. Seeing the same with my product. We run it internationally so there is a spectrum (country dependant) about usage changes. Some are the same, or less, some are 2-3x more but only certain days of the week. One was 1000x more, but only for one week and is now just normal. It's been pretty crazy.
Couldn't agree more.
Re:Production-Oriented Development on Sunday February 23, 2020 @04:47PM (#22399768)
Regarding your last point. You weigh buying software over building it when you know how much it costs to buy and maintain, and have a strong grasp on how much time money and energy it costs to build it yourself. That is how you make an informed judgement. Sure there is risk, but if your burning 15K a year on a build server and you can build it yourself for 5k and run it for 1k a year then math doesn't lie about what choice you should make.
Re:Production-Oriented Development on Sunday February 23, 2020 @04:41PM (#22399733)
Agree, and I work in the latest 'social media platform' type end. We have many customers. I can assure the author of the post, when those customers pay for enterprise licensing and their system is broken with an obvious bug. The 'we didn't do any testing before hand because staging is a lie' doesn't actually fair well as a valid excuse for anything. In fact, you just look like an unprepared and immature muppet.
I have had to personally re-document setting up a basic Azure AD connection 4 times in a 18 month period. Each time I go back to it, the UI has changed and key pieces of functionality are just 'elsewhere'.

The EC2 console is old and outdated, its been the same since I started with it like 7 years ago. They are rolling out a new dashboard right now, a complete overhaul.

The difference - I don't have to re-document the EC2 Console for internal training.

The AWS Cli is a simple tool that just keeps working and its documentation is pretty much all you need to look at.

The Powershell interface with AzureAD was absolutely opaque, no documentation, took hours to figure out how to configure claims and when I did, it didn't even work due to hidden limitations that the paid for support could not explain.

I think that your experiences have been quite different to others, certainly mine.

Re:Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:24PM (#22004544)
Are you currently employed? What job is offering you unrestricted control of your schedule? No requirement to work with others? No requirements to attend meetings at fixed times? etc. From what you said, I can't picture a workplace that is functional like that.
Re:Kubernetes Is in Hospice on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:24PM (#20897638)
This is not a very good article, there does not seem to be any actual facts in it. It seems to be a rant about something with no first hand experience or concrete exampls to back it up.

The article appears to be written by someone who is the CEO of a company that is directly competing with container industries.

Seems to be a lot of smoke generation.

The whole pizza.
Might be the most depressing thing I have ever read. People taking climate change seriously only because it keeps them in power.
Re:AWS costs every programmer should know on Sunday June 09, 2019 @08:32AM (#20138772)
Useful to have also the 'network' costs from an edge location to a user. That one just bit me so its close in my mind right now.
Re:How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading? on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:57AM (#20014098)
Your right its not 2x the work, it is much more.

Speaking from about a decade of experience with progressive enhancement and all the other things. It is 'much' more. There is an expectation of equivalent functionality/experience in these cases, and you just can't spread your resources that thin to get half a product out that works without Javascript. You're literally development a completely independant application that has to sit on top of another application. Everything comes out 'worse'

These days we invest in ARIAA and proper accessibility integration and if you run without Javascript that is going to get you next to nothing in a 'rich' web application.

Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? on Thursday March 28, 2019 @04:43PM (#19516395)
This actually has a usage for emergency services. People call and don't know where they are. This app can let the operator send them a text with a link in that they follow and can communicate very effectively the precise location.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47705912

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