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Postgres can be tuned to 10k inserts per second, Kafka is definitely overkill for 200/s

Reminds me of this video about the origin of the name Tiffany: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI "I didn't fly across the Atlantic to... Of course I did"

Reminds me of the ghost Unicode character saga: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

Nested virt doesn't work with some things like OS snapshot/restore, so they might not support it to allow those features.

We got around this at my company by just pooling all of the LISTEN/NOTIFY streams into a single database connection in software, here's a sample implementation: function software_l…

As far as I understand, that's 100 shared queries across all users.

Paul Graham would say for exponential growth, 10x better is the bar

Sure, I meant "docker" here as a simplification for the OCI format.

Will add those to the landing page - they got lost in the Figma design

It looks like all of the auth data is empty - maybe you logged into an account which doesn't have permission to install on that repository? If you email me at colin@webapp.io with …

Practically - We don't actually require you to use Docker, and we don't use it under the hood. The configuration (which looks like a Dockerfile) can run multiple containers in the …

We do have a caching anycast proxy like fly, render, and other webapp-focused PaaS providers.

We don't actually host docker containers - the configuration DSL is based on Docker, but has crucial differences In particular, you can do things like RUN BACKGROUND docker-compose…

It's two environments per unique account - though you can email support to prove you're a real person and get this moved up. We haven't had to formalize any policies, but they'll b…

We actually just migrated to NextJS this week - so there's still a few hairy bits with the frontend. Thanks for the report, should be fixed now.

Webapp.io's money making part (which facilitates this) is a DevOps company (CI/CD, preview environments, etc) which is already hammered with that sort of thing - see this post (fro…

Hey HN, We recently finished our firecracker-based webapp hosting platform. It's like if Vercel and Docker had a baby: You write VM configurations in a language that looks like a D…

This was the idea behind https://webapp.io (YC S20): - Run a linear series of steps - Watch which files are read (at the OS level) during each step, and snapshot the entire RAM/dis…

Hey, yeah this looks somewhat similar to what we're building at https://webapp.io (nee LayerCI, YC S20) We migrated to a fork of firecracker, but we're a fully hosted product that …

Another benchmark by maintainer of Vue and Vite, Evan You: https://github.com/yyx990803/vite-vs-next-turbo-hmr He seems to imply that Turbopack is very close in performance to exis…

Just sends me to a login page?