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For many companies (country-dependent) that's not really why they use cloud services vs purchasing. It's tax shenanigans and business process overhead. OpEx vs CapEx, and a small (…

This continuing trend is going to do a fantastic job of ensuring fewer and fewer individuals can launch casual projects and gating (non-VC) startups to those who already have the m…

No, those search engines will simply stop being used by people that care. Google's "AI results" have already wrongly accused people of being sex offenders and make up gibberish con…

Webalayzer! I'm not sure there were really any other options at the time other than writing your own. Parsed the apache logs and gave you pretty detailed results and you could see …

I used to just start giving any IP downloading way too much a redirect to multi-tb NASA images. This was a long time ago but it was surprisingly how many would follow redirects and…

sorentwo is the author of Oban. He's not using CockroachDB, he's supporting it as a valid Oban target.

pg_timescale can take you pretty far for metrics and would be Good Enough for almost all users. Totally agree on raw, high-volume logs though.

In pg19 https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit... will land, which significantly improves NOTIFY performance. Right now LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn't scale to very bu…

No, not usually. Few ISPs are willing to risk blacklisting. Just like scrapers (and a lot of VPNs are quietly using their custom VPN clients to sell your own IP [and data] to scrap…

It's very unfortunate but a significant amount of the most damaging stuff in this is from the underprivileged and those with minimal means who were trying to find help they could a…

Personally, this is the funniest one to me. It turns out Fiverr uses cloudinary for their internal documents as well. (Note: this one is not confidential and is public information)…

Which has never worked. Korea had a system to prevent kids from gaming after midnight for something like 15 years. All it did was make Korean kids very good at memorizing their par…

Is this not just Windows LTSB/LTSC? Which has been a thing forever.

I kinda have my own https://github.com/tktech/chancy :P

> Support only options aren't going to cut it in our experience; but maybe that'll be different with Python. That's totally fair, and I can only speak from the sidelines. I haven't…

A combination of LISTEN/NOTIFY for instantaneous reactivity, letting you get away with just periodic polling, and FOR UPDATE...SKIP LOCKED making it efficient and safe for parallel…

Celery + RabbitMQ is hard to beat in the Python ecosystem for scaling. But the vast, vast majority of projects don't need anywhere that kind of scale and instead just want basic fe…

The Oban folks have done amazing, well-engineered work for years now - it's really the only option for Elixir. That said, I'm very confused at locking the process pool behind a pro…

Sure, here's a Rust/WASM procedural skybox generator I threw together the other day, and is much, much faster at 16k renders then Javascript. https://tkte.ch/night-sky/

I might have missed it, but no mention of _where_ data is stored in the FAQ and seems critically reliant on Cloudflare. In a changing world, what's the selling point for those outs…

Hard to understate just how expensive. Here in Montreal where ice storms kill and cause billions in damage, we still don't bury the main transmission lines. We been burying almost …

Can you explain what part of that is "communist nonsense"? Appropriate taxation (and leaving them with billions still even after that)? Or was it feeding hungry children you're aga…

It's a tiny pittance of what would have been owed had they been taxed appropriately, and seems conveniently timed to bury the news of Dell (via Dell Federal Systems) funding ICE (i…

(I'm biased, I'm the author of Chancy) One of the major complaints with Celery is observability. Databased-backed options like Procastinate and Chancy will never reach the potentia…

If you like Procastinate, you might like my Chancy, which is also built on postgres but with a goal of the most common bells and whistles being included. Rate limiting, global uniq…