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[Context: I worked with this team previously] Data here is coming from mobile apps, and is similar in volume to typical mobile app user analytics. I can certainly imagine that Segment would be a poor (or maybe just costly) fit for device telemetry in most IoT use-cases.
Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database? on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:46PM (#27692693)
It’s non-obvious, but that’s actually very close to how farming works today, at least in the US. Farm-owners will lease their land for a season to grow a specific crop. The land needs to meet requirements for acreage, irrigation, etc., but someone else will “use” the farm.

I’m sure this happens on a continuum from “that’s a big field, can I use it?” to “here are seeds, I expect XYZ yield in N months”.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018) on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:45PM (#17215783)
IFTTT | Full-time | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | https://ifttt.com/jobs

Are you a maker/hacker/tinker-er? Do you love Ruby _and_ type systems? Want to help scale one of the largest consumer-oriented serverless platforms? Join IFTTT!

IFTTT is the free way to get all your apps and devices talking to each other. Not everything on the internet plays nice, so we're on a mission to build a more connected world.

IFTTT is hiring for a number of engineering roles* but I’m selfishly plugging the systems engineering (more-or-less backend) role. We’re a high-leverage team building resilient systems that operate at scale. Help us thoughtfully break apart our monolithic Rails application into composable services that support our consumer-facing teams to deliver award-winning experiences.

If you’re in the Bay Area and want to learn more, shoot me an email at [email protected]. Happy to grab coffee and chat about what we’re working on and how you can help.

* Are you a data, mobile, or infrastructure engineer? We’d love to talk to you too! I’m happy to connect you with the right folks here at IFTTT.

Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:33AM (#16474217)
GDPR is so complex, but this helped my understanding a little bit: https://www.convert.com/gdpr/ab-testing-application-complian...
Re:Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how? on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:25AM (#16474133)
Mesos running on AWS, almost entirely with EC2 spot instances.

We were big Heroku users as well, so carried over a number of Heroku patterns. For example, configuring everything with ENV vars, lightweight load balancing, grouping apps into several deployable targets, etc.

It’s certainly not better than Heroku in most ways, though there was no plausible way for us to continue running our workload on Heroku.

(Edited: typo)

Re:In The Works – Amazon Aurora Serverless on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:50PM (#15809042)
Is that true? The default limit on concurrent function executions is 1000. The existing Aurora (MySQL) should be able to handle cycling through those connections without issue.
Re:Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube had outage issues on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:22PM (#15228602)
The browser still has to make a request to the CDN to get back an HTTP 304. The goal is to avoid downloading a potentially large payload, not be resilient against connectivity issues.
Re:Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:41AM (#12950994)
Using IFTTT as part of a system to tune insulin delivery https://twitter.com/danamlewis/status/788209253722918912
Re:Developing with Docker at IFTTT on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @06:56PM (#10349719)
To add to silvamerica's comment, this process is specific to running containers in development. When building images for deployment the dependencies are installed as a RUN step in the Dockerfile.
Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications on Thursday September 19, 2013 @03:38PM (#6413748)
Redis - https://github.com/antirez/redis

Edit: GitHub actually has a good list of trending repositories that you can filter by language. Most C projects seem to be libraries, but you might be able to glean something interesting - https://github.com/trending?l=c&since=monthly

Re:Website mistakes that are easily fixed on Friday June 14, 2013 @09:34PM (#5883477)
Annoying, maybe, but I don't think it really fits with the theme of the rest of the list. Providing the user with a potentially helpful shortcut to an app doesn't really compare to breaking deep links for the mobile web.
Re:Apple Literally Stole my Thunder on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:37PM (#5858972)
He links to it in the comments: http://horizonapp.com
Re:Apple Literally Stole my Thunder on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:30PM (#5858938)
Sad story, but I think it's being blown out of scale. In the comments on his post, he linked to the app's teaser site: http://www.horizonapp.com

I really don't see how this app could "confidently" stand up to the new Weather.app

Re:Amazon India is now live on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @09:31PM (#5823155)
In e-commerce, doesn't latency == $$? Is the bandwidth premium really that much higher? Or is the performance difference between the geographies negligible?
Re:Amazon India is now live on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @09:24PM (#5823138)
Interesting that the IP address resolves to their datacenter in Ireland. I would have assumed either Singapore or Tokyo. Is there any reason that a continental connection is preferable to an.. aquatic one?

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