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Could the link be edited to not jump to the #comments anchor in the article?
Re:My First Year of Freelancing on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:16AM (#17134812)
It's strange that this person didn't also describe the lessons they'd learned about Content Marketing, but I guess it doesn't work if you point that out.
I think your title might not be the best;

* Serverless typically implies something accessible from more than the host you're on

* It's not zero configuration, there's at least 1 configurable parameter (albeit with a sensible default)

* I'm actually not even clear why this is a document store limited to JSON, other than you're piping it though a JSON python module.

Having done some things like this in the past, as you continue, you'll probably want to create subdirectories based on the first N characters of the UUID, but I'm not sure you wouldn't get considerably more value of just putting your json blobs into an AWS Dynamo table.

Re:Running costs for running a web app on Sunday January 10, 2016 @04:36PM (#10877316)
Thanks for posting this, I found the format incredibly helpful, and it kind of makes me want to produce a run-rate estimator in a similar format. I often wind up overspending on side-project ideas for failing to take into account the costs of services I'll wind up using.

Judging by the Stripe fees, I'd hazard that your cumulative revenue is in the $30k range. I'm sure there are marketing and advertising expenses that aren't listed here, but that seems like a pretty healthy gross margin.

Re:Apollo: Spotify's Java libraries for writing micro-services on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:28AM (#10744091)
This seems like a use-case that a whole lot of people are excited about since microservices are presently in vogue. What would make me want to choose Apollo over, say, Dropwizard (http://dropwizard.io) if we assume that I'm not a developer at Spotify?
Re:Otto: Meet the Successor to Vagrant on Saturday November 14, 2015 @09:40AM (#10565809)
Then perhaps it's inappropriate to claim that "Otto can deploy to many different infrastructure providers" until "Otto can deploy to many different infrastructure providers".
Re:Ask HN: What is “Stacked Ranking”? on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @08:33PM (#10045300)
The short form is that in a Stacked Ranking performance measurement system, you rank every employee in an ordered list. Most often the next thing you hear is that the top X% of employees are the ones who will be given raises/bonuses, and the bottom Y% of employees are the ones who will be finding new jobs.

Reasonable references to get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/stacked-ranking http://www.businessinsider.com/stack-ranking-employees-is-a-...

Re:“MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql” on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @01:24PM (#6803093)
Is PostgreSQL web scale? I will use it if it is web scale.