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It is free to become VAT registered and only takes a few days for the VAT number to be assigned and posted to you.

There’s going to be a lot of LinkedIn scrapers and tools that are going to stop working if LinkedIn adopt this - a lot of these tools work off particular session cookies you share with them

For those who don't know, Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, famous for founding Freelance Programmers in 1962 - a pioneering software company that primarily employed women working from home, decades before remote work was normal.

She changed her name to Stephanie and later adopted “Steve” as a professional first name to overcome gender bias in business correspondence - male clients were more likely to respond.

She came to Britain as a child refugee via the Kindertransport in 1939.

You can read more about her story here - https://www.steveshirley.com/

Its an ancient practise, codified into law in 2012 when the regulatory framework was re-codified from multiple laws like Port of London Act 1908 as well as time immemorial acts like this.

Mesg.ai | backend engineer | permanent full-time | ONSITE at our office in London if desired or REMOTE in Europe

Mesg.ai helps sales teams around the world research potential customers at scale and send personalised outreach messages that are relevant, well written and timely.

We're hiring our first backend engineer to work on a serverless Golang microservices stack running on AWS. This would be a great role if you're experienced in another language and looking to get into Golang - I'm very happy to train you on the role.

We're just a year old, raised some money some amazing international angels working in our space and are gearing up for our seed round in Q1 2022. Learn more at https://mesg.ai/

To apply email me at alex@mesg.ai

Mesg.ai | Frontend engineer | Full-time | London

We’re building software to help customer facing teams (starting with sales teams) communicate better with current and potential customers. Our tech stack is AWS, go microservices running on K8s with react typescript frontend.

We’re looking to hire our first engineer to lead the development of our web apps and browser extensions.

We’re offering 32 days holiday, stock options, an equipment budget and a personal training budget.

Apply here: https://smrtr.io/5tn8N

When I applied for my UK driving license I was able to opt in to the organ donation register then

Cloudfront now has native brotli support

You can also use ACM certificates directly on nitro-powered EC2 instances too

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-encla...

I really enjoyed Writing an Interpreter in Go - https://interpreterbook.com/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/contributing-cassand...

Rent control is not a neoliberal policy - neoliberalism promotes free markets and de-regulation with which rent control does not align to.

That’s a fair point about creating Stipe tokens.

In my experience (processing several thousand payments with Stripe daily) when there are blips they do seem to be isolated to specific endpoints/entities.

Create your Stripe token client side, send it to your API, indicate to the user that the payment is processing.

Your backend stores the PCI-compliant Stripe token in a queue which a worker processes as and when it can - therefore allowing you to mitigate Stripe down time.

The issues then become one of UX if the payment fails.

Popsa | London (ONSITE) | Full-time | Platform Engineer, Android Engineer, Lead Web Application Engineer

Popsa is a design-led, engineering focussed company that uses machine learning to help people rediscover their best experiences and turn them into beautiful printed products.

We're looking for the following:

A platform engineer to work on an event-driven serverless + microservices stack written in Golang + Python.

An Android engineer to work on an app with customers in 50 countries

A lead web app engineer to work on a brand new project

https://blog.popsa.com/jobs

Thank you so much for writing this. As a software developer with some familiarity with ML concepts and terminology (I’d heard of word2vec for example) I found this post really easy to follow along with.

If you're running this regularly (e.g. once an hour) to dump tables the cost of Glue can really add up due a minimum runtime length.

We switched to a scheduled Fargate task to dump data from DynamoDB into S3 as parquet files. It's really reliable, costs us ~$4/month and completely configurable.

To any British person they will assume Ambrosia are doing blood transfusions with custard

A P45 is the official document you receive when you leave employment (fired or not), it isn’t slang for anything though you may be threatened with a P45

If your DB load is consistent and the cost of serverless outweights standard instance then yes go for a standard instance.

However if your DB load is very spiky then serverless Aurora might be cheaper than running an over provisioned instance.

The FCA are very consumer conscious - look at the threats of significant fines towards TSB for just a few days of their app and website being offline.

The SLA governs availability.

Details of durability here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/DataDurabili...

What is the durability objects stored with DO? S3 offers 11x9s of durability.

Likewise what is the replication story? Can you get event notifications when objects are uploaded/deleted? Is there versioning? Static website hosting? Lifecycle management?

You can use AWS Certificate Manager to generate a free auto-renewing certificate and associate that with your CloudFront distribution.

Will simplify your stack a little by removing the LE step

Forgive the self promotion but I'm building a subscription video site - http://stackleap.com/ - to teach people how to build and deploy to AWS infrastructure.

The difference between StackLeap and sites like acloud.guru is that I'm focussing on the day to day stuff rather than high level concepts you need to know to pass the certification exams.

I'm hoping to launch a beta in the next few weeks.

AWS has multiple storage and database offerings so having different product names is helpful

Two other well known graph databases are "Janus" and "Titan" both of which are named after ancient gods

You could wire this up with a Lambda middleware function: S3 -> Lambda -> AMQ

Making Tax Digital's aim is to massively simplify tax returns (including VAT returns) for both individuals and businesses. It's whole aim it reduce time it takes dealing with taxes and give a live overview of tax obligations rather than waiting until the end of the financial year (or longer) to find out what you owe.

I don't understand how any of that can be considered contentious especially as it's been pushed back to beyond April 2019 for roll out?

Trade barriers won't really affect digital service companies as they're not moving physical goods around.

Digital services are affected by other types of regulation though which won't really change as a result of Brexit (e.g. if you're a British online accounting company selling a version optimised for German companies).