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Wow.
I really wana know if they even compress the log data in there database.
40 TB of logs in a postgresql, like that can't be efficient?
I would probably just have a scaling blob store and would store it away. That has to be much faster, simpler and cheaper.
While i like the idea, i don't think you have a real target.
Who would consider your service?
A Frontenddeveloper will not use it because they can't.
Who only has a basic idea on how to host an sympfony application and also is willing to pay 20% commission? A simple architecture costs quickly over 200 $ per Month and then there is no backup or recovery scenario included. A high risk.
I'm always curious on what type of feedback the author really is looking for or if it is just cheap ad.
$5 for unlimited and basically 25 cards for 'free' makes it quite obvious that this tool does not provide anything the market already offers.
Aren't people analysing what is already out there?
Anki/Ankiweb is free. What student will every pay $5/month for your service? No one.
I assume that you will visit your subscription numbers, your page counts for a few weeks, you will see no magic and sudden richness, and either you loos interest or you discover that someone is misusing your server through some bug and you shut it down.
I don't wanna be pessimistic, don't get me wrong, but i really want to know what your mental idea was showing it here.
If you really wanna have feedback: - Make it as simple and fast and easy to create new cards/decks - Add an IOS/Android App; Either native or PWA - Fix your unicode stuff , doesn't work everywhere just because it works on your pc - Actually teach people how to write proper cards; Your description, to be honest, is as shitty avg as any other website
And as a final point: Actually think of something which is worth $5 per Month and makes any difference to what the market already has to offer.
That is just not true.
GCS for example and its the same with S3, costs space, egress and requests themself.
Data Storage 50 GB Standard Storage * $0.026 per GB $1.30 Network 10 GB egress * $0.12 per GB $1.20 Operations 10,000 Class A operations * $0.05 per 10,000 operations $0.05 Operations 50,000 Class B operations * $0.004 per 10,000 operations $0.02
Weird right?
You would assume that Amazon allows you to properly slice and dice their product catalog but i think that is something we do but the avg person doesn't.
When i need something and i know exactly what it is, i will search for it on amazon and other retailers to find a good price, most of the time with comparision services.
If i don't now exactly what im looking for i will research the market: What is a common producer/brand, who is known for good quality, what variations exists, what was the model a year before, whats the price difference, whats the feature difference. I don't think thats the normal behaviour.
People like to go to electronic markets to 'browse' and get advice.
"Scalability! but at what COST?" Is a very good example on how frustrating it can be.
We are throwing a lot of resources against a problem because we are not able to educate people good enough to understand basic performance optimizations.
You are a Data Scientist/anyone else and you don't understand your tooling? You are doing your job wrong.
But that would mean that your API should return a country specific result to be accurate.
You could also generate all those files, put that into a GCS Bucket and put an API Gateway in front.
easier would be and thats just a thought: You could build a go/c++/java app which contains that database pre compressed in some arbitrary better format than just 2 floats, get it down from your original 34gig and just keep it in memory.
Like if you know that 99% of all ips in a certain range are from US, then only store the 1% as a list.