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Re:Show HN: Mnemonic url shortener on Thursday March 10, 2016 @09:56PM (#11264359)
As of this moment it's throwing an 'Application error' status page.

Ask HN: A simple yet useful e-book to learn AWS?

I'm building my own startup and it has come to my attention that managing the AWS infraestructure manually is not a good choice. Some people suggested Cloudformation to do this. The thing is, I have an EC2 instance up and running and serving some websites I own.There's this startup I'm trying to build that needs to be able to scale to different regions and the thruth is I have no idea what...

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Ask HN: PhpMyAdmin alternatives?

I've been looking at some alternatives but they are often really old or not nice enough. I've been phpMyAdmin for quite a few years now but with all the new technologies, html5 and the improvements there are on webapps I'm starting to feel it falls short. Can't do things like edit a column name from the table structure view and quite a few other things that make it not productive enough.Any ideas?

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Re:Ask HN: How should I develop my CMS / Back end? on Sunday October 11, 2015 @06:11PM (#10371300)
Well, after some research it seems Go is pretty fast for starters. The backend I'm building is expected to be accessed by more than 10k people on a daily basis so it has to be robust. One of the other features I'm really looking forward is the built-in web server it offers. Basically I heard it's strong, scalable and neat for a service that needs a lot of requests per day, so it seems like a good idea to give it a try.

Ask HN: How should I develop my CMS / Back end?

I've been working on a backend in PHP for the past year, expanding and changing it every time a customer needed new things that were not previously covered by it. I was using Laravel because not only I felt comfortable with pbp but also I really liked how easy it was to implement new functionality.Now the time has come where I have to step up a notch, change the backend design and extend it a...

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Re:Origami and Material Design on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @06:12PM (#9187767)
Why can't we have nice things on Linux/Windows too?