There are atleast 5-6 startups who came up to this space in the last 3-4 years (after the acquisition of Auth0 by Okta for some $6B).
And whenever such startups launch their product here in HN, most devs are like, what is the need for another product like this.
This trend has no stopping it seems. Every dev tool startups are getting funded.Some of these startups are simple clones of existing proprietary services offered by AWS and other providers. (Like Cognito / Auth0)Why VCs are betting on this market? What is the opportunity to build a huge business here for a new startup, beating reputed players like AWS, Auth0 etc? What is the conviction of VCs...
Which one do you prefer?If you're gonna use some third party service (either closed hosted, or self hosted) to build application logic workflows, what will be your preference? To write the workflow in their DSL spec and decoupled from your source code?, or will you be more interested if you can run your own native code as workflows?
I have built several apps, but I always use MYSQL search queries to build the search features. I have never felt the need to use Elasticsearch. Can someone enlighten me about the use cases where Elasticsearch becomes irreplaceable? Or is it just nice to have?
I'm trying to identify the bottleneck in my rabbitmq consumer written in Node.JS. The consumer performs 2 simple MYSQL SELECT queries using TypeORM, and then finally perform an API request using Axios.My Setup -- This consumer, the rabbitmq server, and the MYSQL server, everything is in docker containers inside a t3.large EC2 instance. The tables are very small, (less than 2000 rows)The issue...
I'm a tech + product co-founder who just raised our seed round. Ours is a pure hi-tech product and I envisioned the product and built it. I have no professional experience as a CEO, but I think only I can lead the "product" in the right direction. Should I be the CEO? or Is it really important to hire a "management guru" as the CEO?