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coolrhymes

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About coolrhymes

Technologist with 10+ years of broad experience in all aspects of software development, product hosting, and infrastructure design/maintenance.

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    Comment #12047181

    Excellent. The job feature has been a godsend. We had a hacky version for one-off jobs but k8-job feature removed some of those complexities. cron-jobs will be one step closer to a…

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    Comment #10367961

    Great postmortem report. I am very surprised to see that the DB ops simply deleted the index without even considering the consequences. More importantly, why isn't the 2 changes pa…

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    Comment #9814542

    Love what you guys doing there. We are building our data stack very much like yours (spark, kafka, redshift and python) at tradewave.net It would be a fascinating to see what insig…

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    Comment #9813604

    Great writeup. It is so close to what we built at tradewave.net (except for Locust). I am glad I am not the only one that saw load testing using scalable containers. At some point,…

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    Comment #9616285

    awesome write up. I thought i was the only crazy guy to use lua to route subdomains to internal servers. Little surprised on the MySql part instead of redis like fast look up key.

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    Comment #9469137

    You're assuming that searching restaurants on yelp and then booking is a hassle. It isn't for me and for most part people I know who eat out regularly. It's almost always you go th…

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    Comment #9292717

    I love this library and like others, was a god send. one thing I want to try is use the lib with the python mock lib to mock services that can return randomized data of some kind.

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    Comment #6968176

    This! I mean, I don't what to say other than punch that person. I have had the first hand experience with this.

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    Comment #6956432

    Is this for k12 only or are you planning this for higher ed? @kipinhall, we are pivoting towards professor centric app, so having the access to student info would be great. we can …

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    Comment #6930819

    Its funny you say this but I noticed it first hand. Also, it depends on where you network and who you network with. Last month or so I was compelled to network aggressively being t…

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    Comment #6896225

    This is my 1st blog post as tech co-founder. English isn't my best asset, so apologies before hand. I would love to know your feedback. Also, the landing page site http://kipinhall…

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    Comment #6804877

    RDS now supports Postgres. It supports both hot & cold swaps. Hopefully in future it will support read replicas.

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    Comment #6747412

    Good to see another Django creator. We are a proud django startup @kipinhall I couldn't believe my eyes when I read RDS Postgres offerings.

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    Comment #6665098

    AWS has a full blown calculator for every service they provide, not just EC2. They give you pricing by monthly, upfront cost [for reserved instances] etc. http://calculator.s3.amaz…

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    Comment #6594872

    ex-cgi contractor here and I am not surprised. they did the Massachusetts health care system that cost over millions of dollars and didn't deliver on the first day. The government …

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    Comment #6457625

    I usually dont comment on HN but just came to say you're full of shit. Thats a classic dark pattern on tricking customers into things that they didn't want in first place.

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    Comment #6308923

    I don't agree 100% with the author on not asking them algorithmic questions. Its a process on how they go about solving it rather than just the outcome. Maybe for the web developer…

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    Ask HN: Which startup provides sales support to other startups?

    I'm looking for the name of the startup that provides sales and business development services to other startups. If someone knows the name, please do tell.

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