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> Webhooks for critical application paths just seem like a bad idea all around really Well, put. I've been deep in the Stripe API for a while now, and the invoices API provides up-…

Hi! Tier co-founder here. > Iterating this on a pricing.json file feels easier. Agreed. :) > if we decide to do something like giving the user the possibility of choosing between a…

Hello from Backplane. You can get this on Azure today using https://www.backplane.io with end-to-end encryption to your backends plus a huge chest of other routing and security fea…

I hit reply too soon. Sorry. Regarding robustness: Our tests show we're more robust that than alternative proxy services with smaller feature sets.

We're happy to hear your enjoying it! If you have pricing questions please email sales@backplane.io

Backplane easily replaces the service discovery+custom agents+elb+nginx+firewall management code+cert management code+...... so if you have a process instance/scheduler like kubern…

Backplane founder / CEO here. I started Backplane because I noticed after leaving Heroku as the first eng hire, then working with users while at CoreOS, that a lot could be done to…

I added an example for you (although not a "slidding" window): http://godoc.org/github.com/bmizerany/perks/quantile#__examp...

There may be a way to implement this in perks/quantiles by adding another piece of metadata for the timestamp. There is a space cost for this, but it may be okay or even opt-in. Ma…

Yes. I use this for that. Query then Reset every 5 minutes.

azmenthe's article covers the problem well: http://blog.tempo-db.com/post/42318820124/estimating-percent... Basically, when you have more data than memory and time to sort them in …

Great post. Distributing the computation was quite easy. I emailed the authors of the paper and they gave me a quick answer, which is what I implemented and tested. I'm interested …

Here is a list of all updates to the platform: https://gist.github.com/1000964

Please see: http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html

Yes, it is Paxos. We have a post coming up about it.

Sinatra has had etag support for years; longer than Rails ( http://bit.ly/9rBLut now http://bit.ly/d3ir1T ). Sinatra is well suited for large apps. I suggest using it for them. :)