bluepuma77

Why, GPTZero states about the main text: "We are highly confident this text is entirely human"

It was needed back in the era of really expensive memory.

Well, it seems we are back in an era with really expensive memory.

Well, how do you define main Linux distros? Isn’t the next smaller one not receiving the info always complaining?

A zero-downtime migration to a single database server? Power fails, disks fail, even CPU fans sometimes fail and bring a single server to a halt. Somehow I would have expected at least a high-available database cluster with multiple machines for applications "serving hundreds of thousands of users".

The US seems like a pretty huge area for the number of people living there. Why do they need to build a data center 100m from a house, why not build it 1000m away?

The mentioned AIStor "alternative" is on the min.io website. It seems like a re-brand. I doubt they will link to competing products.

Now we only need easy self-hosted Postgres clustering for HA. Postgres seems to need additional tooling. There is Patroni, which doesn't provide container images. There is Spilo, which provides Postgres images with Patroni, but they are not really maintained. There is a timescaledb-ha image with Patroni, but no documentation how to use it. It seems the only easy way for hosting a Postgres cluster is to use CloudNativePG, but that requires k8s.

It would be awesome to have easy clustering directly built-in. Similar to MongoDB, where you tell the primary instance to use a replica set, then simply connect two secondaries to primary, done.

From my point of view the real challenge comes when you want high availability and need to setup a Postgres cluster.

With MongoDB you simply create a replicaset and you are done.

When planing a Postgres cluster, you need to understand replication options, potentially deal with Patroni. Zalandos Docker Spilo image is not really maintained, the way to go seems CloudNativePG, but that requires k8s.

I still don’t understand why there is no easy built-in Postgres cluster solution.

I prefer WG-Easy (https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy), which uses a Docker container, not ansible.

I don't understand why so many people are using [Cloudflare].

"Let us handle all your internet traffic.. you can trust us.. []"

TLS does not help, when most Internet traffic is passed through a single entity, which by default will use an edge TLS certificate and re-encrypt all data passing through, so will have decrypted plain text visibility to all data transmitted.

It's not a k8s replacement. It's for the small dev team with no k8s experience. For people that might not use Docker Swarm because they see it's a pretty dead project. For people who think "everyone uses k8s", so we should, too.

I need to run on-prem, so managed k8s is not an option. Experts tells me I should have 2 FTE to run k8s, which I don't have. k8s has so many components, how should I debug that in case of issues without k8s experience? k8s APIs change continuously, how should I manage that without k8s experience?

It's not a k8s replacement. But I do see a sweet spot for such a solution. We still run Docker Swarm on 5 servers, no hyperscalers, no API changes expected ;-)

"Cold Storage" by American screenwriter David Koepp comes to mind, a comedy splatter novel. I don't usually read such books, but this one was funny and entertaining.

Thanks for explaining and the link, missed that in the announcement.

Looks a little bit like Svelte.

Sounds like the early days of the web, when cookies weren’t widely used.

User sessions were created with a URL query parameter, like `?sessionid=`, and every page would pick up the sessionid and include it in every link on the page.

"NOTE: THIS IS R&D total cost. The DIY price should be less than $1500"

Who are you, which legal jurisdiction is your company located in? What is your target group? Selling local or global? Every jurisdiction probably has different rules what needs to be included on an invoice.

If you serve the U.S., then you need to calculate all the different sales taxes for each state. If you serve the E.U., you need to create PDF with included standardized XML soon. Don't know about other continents.

I think invoices are not about quick and pretty anymore, but there is a lot more to consider. You should make it clear what you provide and for which target customer.

It seems their official Docker image is 5 years old.

Usually you have to click a unique confirmation link in the email to activate the account.

It could be a good thing to have a confirmed email in the database, in case a 3-letter-agency knocks on your door because of some highly illegal content on your site.

Switch hosting model. Assuming you run expensive cloud services for $7500.

Get some inexpensive bare metal servers and you maybe can save 80% cost.

This seems like a kids phone, so the "decision making unit" should be the parents in the end. I am sure they would know about Nokia, that they were happy users years ago and buy the brand again for their kids.

It would be great if it would support other eBay sites than just .com, not everyone is in the US :)

That’s was not my intention!

Docker is young and fashionable, every windows script kiddy uses it nowadays!

And then comes to the Docker forum complaining about strange issues, not realizing Docker Desktop is a different product, it uses a Linux VM to run the Docker engine, which was build for Linux ;-)

I explicitly wrote "old-school Docker Swarm", as that is missing love for years and everyone with 2 IT FTEs seems to be moving to k8s.

Can it be easily deployed with old-school Docker Swarm?

Yes, but what’s the reason behind this?

If you have bad working conditions (overtime, weekends) and pay very low salary, who wants those jobs?

Greece is in EU, so the workers can just move to better paying places (Germany, France, Nordics).

Maybe they rather need to tackle their many times mentioned corruption problems, so the value created can be distributed also among the workers.

So that work becomes worthwhile again.

As a bootstrapped startup, we are providing SaaS products for larger business customers.

We use a subscription model, which price depends on a very fixed metric of the customer. Think number of rooms in a hotel, it usually never changes.

Not based on users, as that might constantly change and we don’t want customers to think about, if the new employee gets an account or not or has to share it with a co-worker.

Subscription based revenues are more predictable, the user knows the price in advance, the user can easily clear the fixed budget with superiors, the accounting department knows what to expect every month, no one gets a bill shock, no one needs to worry about usage and budget.

We have like no variable cost, so we don’t worry about high usage.

It of course depends on the product and your target group, this works very well for us and our customers.

First app I see in the wild that only supports iOS 17. Maybe I will upgrade some day.

Would be cool to run this on old kindle ebook hardware.

Interesting to see

"Portable - Biscuit is implemented in Rust, Haskell, Go, Java, WebAssembly, C..."

but nothing about Javascript, NodeJS and Python, which seem very common these days.

Did you look at Server Sent Events (SSE)? It's a web technology, I would assume that there are client implementations in all major languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events