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altsang

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About altsang

Lead Architect of LoopBack.io - open source Node.js framework for APIs.

Co-Founded StrongLoop, Founded LunchBadger

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    for sure, it's like the Golden Gate bridge too - once you're done on one end of painting it's time to start re-painting from the beginning again

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    LoopBack.io powers the Compose capabilities in LunchBadger. We're built entirely on open source! Super productive for API development - we just fill in the rest of the blanks in th…

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    it gets better over time :)

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    Not exactly in the traditional sense, a Dapps is a decentralized app that runs on Ethereum, to bridge the gap beyond blockchain execution, the embodiment of a Dapp across all of it…

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    thx! been a fantastic and learning experience, we've found a sweet spot for blockchain backed APIs and orchestrated microservices with our offering and it's been very exciting!!!

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    There are no hard rules about how to divide up your microservices and how atomic each one can be. This is an example at the lowest level as projected by Nginx. We recommend deployi…

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    We're talking to many new gen cloud companies that are already in production and have a burgeoning business that they have to support. They're all "sensitive" to cloud lock in and …

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    Everyone who's been in the trenches know that scorched earth big bang replatforming rarely succeeds and never gets completed. Use scripting to wrap around your existing services, c…

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    We've standardized on docker containers, so any scheduler should be able to run your APIs and microservices. For now we've used Kubernetes for deployment and managing those contain…

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    Thanks! We think what we've built can potentially give you the best of both worlds. No one is going pigeonhole your entire API solution into just serverless infrastructure. But a p…

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    Very very true. Cost of compute is already published per cloud provider. For example, on AWS, it's currently first 1M is free. After that it's a million per $.20. At some point of …