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The creator chose to remove the image in question following my post. You can see the image behind the central video on the wayback machine archive here: https://web.archive.org/web…

I think it's a bit strange to reply directly that you did not plagiarise any images when the opening table cell background is a direct lift of the SVG from our site...

At work we do some pretty significant parallelised computation (using Node and Rust) and that has equivalent performance to a relevant python based library. There are nuances to ho…

Native bindings can use libuv to offboard work to other threads and then re trigger the JS execution when it completes. This is how a lot of the native node libraries work under th…

I think this is definitely the primary challenge with building great, modern enterprise software. You need the flexibility to meet the various demands of differently shaped busines…

This is really interesting - all my interactions have been with people in the London office and were not like this. Perhaps it varies by region?

The comments here have mainly focused on the issue of instant suspension - which is obviously deeply concerning - but I also feel like there is a huge issue at Cloudflare regarding…

We moved from Heroku to GCP after approximately two years of using Heroku. (This was three years ago so some information may have changed) The move worked out incredibly smoothly a…

Considering Google App Engine launched in 2008 and Compute Engine in 2012 I would argue it exceeds "a few years" and begins to form precedent. I would also argue that it is not a r…

I’ve watched Google’s behaviour towards its products for the 10 years cited and referenced it in my post above. Reviewing the infamous https://killedbygoogle.com/ I don’t see much …

As a business customer, we have a dedicated account manager and customer support engineer who in the worst instance any member of our incident response team could ring directly. We…

We rely heavily on GCP and, whilst nothing is impossible, it would be incredibly painful for us to transition away. I personally think it’s quite unlikely that they shutter the ent…

As we start to scale as a company, I've increasingly felt the burden of provisioning new users (from an IT / onboarding sense) into the various SaaS products we use. I know Okta an…

We’re building Attio ( https://attio.com ) for exactly this use case! We have a really modular data structure and a flexible API that feels a lot like Airtable or Notion with all t…

This is essentially how HARM (Anti-Radiation) missiles work [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM ]

It’s worth noting that the dreaded maintenance everyone is talking about here is not part of the SLA: “Downtime as part of Scheduled Maintenance will not be counted towards any Dow…

We’re currently migrating to Spanner for a variety of reasons - but the mandatory downtime on their Postgres CloudSQL offering will be the part I miss the least. It’s insane that e…

Attio | London, UK | Full Time | ONSITE or REMOTE within UK | Backend Engineers Attio is building the next generation of Relationship Management (CRM) with a focus on easy configur…

Stripe supports exporting PCI data like credit card details to other PCI Level 1[1] providers such as Recurly and Braintree. Data portability is a solved problem in this space - so…

We recently finished moving our "Recurring Billing" stack from Stripe to Recurly after we found a tonne of problems with the Stripe billing setup. We still use Stripe as a Payment …

This is definitely a surprising, if welcome, development from GCP. We used to be pretty significant users of Pub/Sub but migrated to Cloud Tasks after several discussions with our …

I’ve seen a variety of solutions to this working on different products but by far the best I have worked with so far is OS Login from Google with their Identity Aware Proxy product…

It’s worth mentioning here that 1.1.1.1 is also affected by this outage which initially made me think my internet was gone completely. Changing back to an alternative (such as 8.8.…