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Interesting. So Talos is both a Linux and a k8s distribution?

I am less interested in running k8s itself in Firecracker (or kata, or similar), but the pods started by it. I think there are advantages to that.

I have the same question. WeaveWorks has another project called footloose which allows docker containers to be used like VMs. Also dead.

The only other project/company (aside from Kata) promoting firecracker was Talos. But not sure if they maintain their integration still.

https://www.talos.dev/v1.2/reference/cli/#talosctl-cluster-c...

You confuse flexible working hours with a demand to work more than 40 hours a week (including nights and weekends).

If you (like to) work overtime on the weekend or week nights, I hope you are compensated well.

Just take into account that there’s a cap on what you can do and no amount of money will make up for that.

Current tech stack is:

The iOS-Frontend is UIKit and RxSwift. The backend is pretty lean — TypeScript, Firestore with the beginnings of PostgreSQL (with Prisma!). The recommender piece for the daily tips is Python. We also use cloud functions to run async updates (e.g. for daily updates and migrations).

Otherwise — lots of hosted services in the mix (Brave, Circle/Github, HoneyComb to name a few).

As for the future, we're exploring Flutter and a few other options to provide different experiences.

Hey — I am part of this journey and currently support the Bunch team in the role of the CTO. If anyone has questions, I am happy to answer them. :)

I'm somewhat of a newbie in regards to developing on mobile devices. Got any documentation how this is done from the phone?

How do you backup this database? Does it integrate with iCloud or whatever is available on the device?

I would like to see IAM as well, but I would say that the solution right now is using a seperate account and using AWS MFA:

http://aws.amazon.com/mfa/

A new account doesn't have all AWS services enabled by default, so the impact seems minimal to start with. Not sure if you can lock this down further as I haven't looked into it.

All in all this is not perfect, but "securer".

In general, and especially for people freelancing in Germany, I'd add: Not getting a tax consultant.

I'm pretty sure this is the same everywhere, but regardless, it's the first thing I tell people which they have to get in order so they don't get screwed later on. ;)

I agree with this. Call servers after their purpose. I don't grow attached to servers anymore — especially in the cloud.

I'm not a Jira fan, but TCO usually includes more than just the actual price of the product. So e.g. setup, maintenance and ongoing support. :)

Thanks Amazon?

This is probably in reference to Amazon forbidding the use of another software load balancer than ELB.

I also read on reddit that there is in fact just ELB. Especially when if you require a loadbalancer and don't host on AWS, you're pretty much screwed.

[Note, sarcasm.]

Data are encrypted directly by the provider, which means customers need no specific technical know-how and incur no extra costs. All data are stored in secure data centers located in Germany.

Not sure how this is the solution. People need to learn how to do encryption themselves. For the average John Doe (or Hans Wurst :-)) there need to be tools to accomplish that without a degree in Math or CS.

I don't think provider-side encryption is a solution at all. Collecting vast amounts of meta data would still be possible.

This is basically what I wanted to write.

In addition, I'm not a huge fan of linkedin either. There are no guarantees to it. One is that most of what's on there is hard to check and linkedin endorsements are just unreal to start with.

I know people who just endorse each other for random things. I have endorsements from people who I have never worked with for technologies I have never worked with.

So in the end — Github or similar wins. Allows me to see their code (and contributions), and that's what matters. For the rest (compatibility on a social level), there are interviews and probation.

Thanks!

I am surprised by this trend — put a project on kickstarter and promise to open source it. Build it on tech that's been open sourced for free.

Trying to stay positive here. But haven't they heard of the millions of people who contribute to (quality) open source software every day?

Can anyone explain/summarize what this is? I gather it was/is feed reader, but I can't find much more and she (?) is very vague. Or I don't know how to navigate her blog.

My bad. Language barrier! :)

A rescue dog — unless maybe really, really old — needs to be challenged constantly. And by challenged, I mean — these dogs are/were rescue dogs for a reason. :)

Challenges include games and tasks, and all that. These dogs need "work" to feel alive.

This.

We're using emberjs right now as well. But the lack of test integration is a huge problem for us. We right some tests with busterjs currently, but none of these tests are unit tests and tell us what exactly went wrong — somewhere.

So not to mis-read my comment: our application works and we deployed to production, and it's being used by customers, etc.. But whenver we need to dive into an emberjs-specific issue (e.g. we had a few regressions to fix which were introduced with the RCs) it gets messy.

If anything, the lack of testing (and currently lack of ideas how to integrate any) is the number one reason why I don't want to use emberjs again any time soon.

ember-data seems fine for us. Lots of conventions to adhere to (otherwise it's no fun at all). Once you figure out the side-loading, you're fine. We had to write a custom adapter so we don't have to repeat the things they call REST on the server.

But that part is solid and seems to work. :)

Looks neat. :)

It would be pretty nice (if I may suggest that ;)), if you added add branch support so the patches are saved into a refactoring branch or maybe individual branches?

This is a great question as well. I'm a little concerned by this choice because I'm not looking forward to constantly enforcing updates all across the board.

And I forgot another — any thoughts on volume licenses? E.g. a pack of 10.

Can you comment on compatibility.

For example, if I decide to buy VMware Fusion for a team of 6 developers today (Professional costs 45 EUR*6 = 270 EUR).

Will I have to spend the same amount each year again or are you going to support each version (and potential changes to the APIs) down the road? I have no idea how drastic changes are going to be from Fusion 5 to 6 and beyond.

From reading your announcement, it seems like your plugin is a one time fee. I've seen other companies try this business model for software only to replace it with a yearly license down the road. Any thoughts on this?

Does the email support include a response time, etc.?

> I honestly wonder how they do it.

Have you ever heard of open source? :)

I've contributed to this project and various others and I frequently had people either hire me to add features to a certain project I worked on/released or bought me a book or so off my Amazon wishlist.

Though one time a company actually paid me to work on open source, this is nothing that pays my rent (currently) and also not my motivation to work on open source in the first place. My main driver is that I use open source and I decided to give back. It also helps my resume though I never really needed that either.

As for RoundCube's design — thank you. I am not a 100% sure right now if "money" went towards the design, but feel free to drop us a line at hello~at~roundcube~dot~net.

Quote from the page:

> I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free, but for you to get maximum benefit out of it, it needs to be open source.

Meet others who can afford to give away their work for free:

http://squirrelmail.org/ http://roundcube.net/ http://www.xuheki.com/ http://www.horde.org/apps/imp

And there is more — google: webmail client open source

I don't consider myself to be magical, but anyway — since you were asking.

We primarily use MySQL and CouchDB (BigCouch). Our user records (accounts and payment) are stored the RDBMS, while the data the users created is in BigCouch. We enjoy the schemaless nature, durability and scalability of BigCouch a lot.

Depending on your definition of "database system", we also have a hefty Solr index (for search), some Redis (no persistence only to connect systems/services via pubsub) and Memcache (cache).

You can learn almost everything you listed as a "Con". It's not always easy, but you learn as you go. I've picked up a lot on the go and for everything else I have to be honest with myself and spend more time on it (e.g. evening, weekend or take a course).

I don't have a degree either. I just never stop learning. I'm sure it would be similar with a degree. All in all, I am doing pretty awesome. I could have a lot of different jobs if I felt like it. And no one has asked me for a degree in maybe 10 years (I turned 30 last year).

The promotion part and the HR part – I think it depends on what kind of company you want to work for.

I don't see a reason to waste away my talent in an environment which doesn't appreciate what I bring to a table. If they would rather promote someone else because they have a degree, then I am in the wrong spot.

If those are your challenges, you might work for the wrong people. Reading this makes me a little sad.

You compare a hoster for servers with a storage solution. Don't get me wrong, I know that hetzner offers cheap iron and it's really amazing, but all this comes at the expense of the network and the support.

RE: S3 – it scales any time and on demand. I can upload 2 TB starting now and don't have to order a server which may or may not be around on Monday (tomorrow). You could compare S3 to something like Rackspace Cloudfiles or Nirvanix. Your Hetzner argument makes little sense – not even as far as TCO is concerned.

Also, good luck recovering your servers and storage array on a public holiday in Bavaria. ;)

It would be interesting to see how your homegrown sync solution works on various operating systems (desktop + mobile) and offers a web-based UI to do the same on the go.

Maybe you discover the sarcasm in my comment. ;)

This is interesting, but why not use their API?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

It's part of mediawiki and available for each and every wikipedia subsite – as far as I can tell. We are using this as well to autocomplete data. And it works really well.

I prefer this method over 'scraping' the content.