taw1516
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I am very comfortable with algorithmic and system design questions. However, what I am struggling with is articulating past experiences. Throughout my last 5 years at my previous employer, I didn't jot down in my personal notes any accomplishments or technical designs. And my memory is so rusty now that I have a hard time reciting them. I understand this is squarely my fault. Wondering if you have any advice on approaching my next job? (senior / manager role)
that is a lot cheaper than Vercel in term of store image but egress seems expensive since they charge per cache image served as well. Do you know if Cloudinary is a better option?
Does CloudFlare have an on-demand image optimization like Vercel? I love that I can specify <Image src="original_image.jpeg width="500px" /> and Vercel just took care of it for me. I am looking for something cheaper and works on native mobile apps as well.
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taw1516 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @12:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am learning how to build a simple hardware device where you can press a button and it will send a network request to my backend. What's your recommended resource to learn about how to productionizing such products (beyond the programming part)?My background is in software engineering so I can pick up Rasperry Pi or something similar fairly easily.
I am on the first leg of your journey. Quit my extremely high paying FAANG job to co-found a startup as a CTO. We raised a crazy amount of money for seed. I am just so burnt out (and genuinely feel I am not qualified for the job). I want to swallow my pride and call it quit despite the company is doing ok with a lot of cash left in the bank.
But two things keep me going (in an unhealthy way): 1. My ego and embarrassment 2. credibility with the investor network we built up. It's not sustainable for my mental health but I frankly don't know what my next steps are yet.
All I can say is best of luck to you. I would love to hear how you bounce back from the VC-funded burn to bootsrap another one.
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taw1516 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @09:39PM
from the ask-hn dept.
We are a small startup of 5 people. Between people coming in and out and poor technical decisions, we ended up with two backend: one in Ruby and one in Go. Both are serving public data via a federated GraphQL API. Most of business domain logics are encapsulated in one server. But we have some shared logic that needs to be implemented in both. Instead of duplicating logic, I want to write these...
love PlanetScale product. Do you recommend any similar offering for PostgresSQL?
it's amazing you built a complex marketplace/commerce site all from scratch. big kudos! if you ever do a paid course on your development, I am more than happy to pay!
wow this is great job! Congrats. Curious if you can share your tech stack for this? Did you use any headless commerce to speed up development?
for someone new to real time apps, can you help me understand how JamSocket is different from some service like Pusher?
I am wondering if simply switching to AWS Aurora is an option here?
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taw1516 on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am familiar with engineering at scale blogs like AirBnB, Meta, or Netflix.I am looking for something a scrappy team of 4 people pull together within 2 years of company inception.
ie question like
1) what early day database schema looks like
2) what do we use for simple product analytics
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ah i meant to ask how it was designed in the backend
wow this looks amazing. Do you mind shedding some light on how you built this? especially how you organize taxonomy and product metadata for each category
I am working on an e-commerce platform that would benefits a lot from your experience here
Thank you for the amazing work. Do you know if you can relax python requirements to 3.10? Right now I can only use it up to 0.5.7
Does anyone have practical engineering blogs on big SwiftUI / Swift app architectures? I am trying to wrap my head around all things MVVM, Clean architecture, Coordinator, and Navigator. Individually, I understand the concepts but in practice I have a hard time splitting things into individual components
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taw1516 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:09PM
from the ask-hn dept.
About my situation: I am an ex-FAANG software engineer manager. I recently co-founded a startup as a CTO with 2 other friends. We raised a really big seed round from reputable VCs. However, 6 months into this journey, I realize I am not cut out for it. This is 100% on me and not a reflection of my team/product/vision1. I have been in the managerial role for too long that my IC output is...