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Re:Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack? on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:40PM (#21031056)
I built CoderTest [1]. It is an online screening platform to evaluate a software engineer’s technical abilities.

I'm using a combination of Node.js, Golang, React+Redux, Express.js, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, AWS Fargate, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Netlify, AWS SNS, AWS SES, Stripe and Github.

I managed to go from idea to product in 3 weekends. I could have built the same thing with any programming language and hosting provider, but not with the same speed. The result is that I am able to iterate and build much faster by using a tech stack that I am very familiar with.

[1] https://codertest.io

Actually I'm planning on releasing the system as a standalone API CodeRun [1].

[1] https://coderun.codertest.io

I guess great minds think alike! It's gratifying to see the smart engineers @ Google use a similar solution to solve the security problem. Unfortunately, it seems Crostini is tied heavily to ChromeOS.
This project started off as a side-project on secure code execution because I wanted to figure out Repl.it and HackerRank worked. I tried experiments with different technologies like Firecracker [1], AWS Lambda [2] and gVisor [3]. They are all great technologies but I ended up with a solution using a combination of VMs and Docker containers to execute user generated code.

[1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/lambda

[3] https://github.com/google/gvisor

Re:AWS Lambda enables functions that can run up to 15 minutes on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:56AM (#18193536)
Also with your sarcasm, you rushed the math. 4*15 = 60
Re:What Powers Step-By-step Code Tutorial Websites? on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:53PM (#14216354)
I built justalgorithms.com with node.js
Re:What Is the Male Marriage Premium? on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:30PM (#14142621)
"Explanation #1: Ability bias. The causal effect of marriage on male income is smaller than it seems....Maybe income makes it easier to attract a spouse".
Re:Show HN: Solve algorithm challenges in JavaScript on Monday March 06, 2017 @04:42PM (#13806308)
Hi everyone. This is a side-project I wanted to share. I made it to practise using algorithms, since it was something employers were asking me in interviews. Let me know what you think!