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About grosskur

Alan Grosskurth

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    Congrats on the launch! It's great to see more innovation and choice in the protobuf/gRPC space. Definitely planning to try this out. For personal projects, I typically have a sing…

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    Comment #26190553

    sqlc can do this: https://sqlc.dev/

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    Comment #11056562

    Awesome! I've always wanted something like this. Thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #10962069

    Also: - Basscss [ http://www.basscss.com/ ] - Tachyons [ http://tachyons.io/ ]

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    Comment #10176000

    Could this be a good use case for NSQ? It seems simpler to operate than Kafka, and somewhat more durable than ZeroMQ. http://nsq.io/

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    Comment #9595443

    I'm really enjoying using Cask to manage my Emacs packages: https://cask.readthedocs.org/ You maintain a list of packages in a Cask file and run "cask" to automatically download an…

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    Comment #9378349

    Starting with systemd 219, you can download a Docker image from a registry with "machinectl pull-dkr", and run it with "machinectl start": http://www.freedesktop.org/software/syste…

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    Comment #8767408

    Hi! I'm the creator of Shipway. I'd love to get any feedback folks have. I'm also happy to answer questions. The overall idea is to make it as easy as possible to go from source co…

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    Comment #8761040

    You might be interested in the virtual-dom and vdom-thunk NPM packages, which are used in mercury: https://github.com/Raynos/mercury See also Raynos's "NPM-style Frontend" presenta…

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    Comment #8741412

    Ryan Smith's "Building Metrics From Log Data" is an interesting talk about this: http://vimeo.com/68183624 Also check out Heroku's Lumbermill project, which handles extracting rout…

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    Comment #8701886

    There's also otto, a JavaScript interpreter written in Go: https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto Here's an example Go app using otto for React server-side rendering: https://github.…

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    Comment #8632344

    Take a look at confd, a single statically-linked executable that can expand config file templates using environment variables: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd Basically, y…

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    Comment #8608972

    You could also try virtualenvs inside Debian packages: https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv One reason to keep virtualenvs is that the system Python (VM or container) includes …

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    Comment #8597639

    That was my initial thought, too. But it looks like the Docker-related news they hinted at is still coming: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/529493907839533056

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    Comment #8521635

    The Heroku platform team has a good document about their API design guidelines: https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design

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    Comment #8485992

    You can simulate this with so-called "Bernstein chaining". Basically, each program takes another program as an argument, and finishes by calling exec() on it rather than exit(), wh…

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    Comment #8485954

    xmlstarlet is also handy for command-line XML parsing: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/

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    Comment #8442855

    Looks awesome! I'm actually working on a SaaS product along similar lines. Right now it can build RPM and Debian packages directly from GitHub sources: https://www.packagelab.com/ …

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    Comment #8404658

    Most people agree HVM is the way to go on EC2: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-07/what-color-is-yo... Forcing an HVM guest to use only PV drivers sounds like PVH, which is…

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    Comment #8387514

    I'm working on something along these lines: https://www.packagelab.com/ The idea is to have a common UI and REST API for building packages and managing repositories across packagin…

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    Comment #8378282

    Actually, when you NOTIFY a channel in Postgres it gets delivered to all clients who have previously run LISTEN on that channel. And you can send an optional payload (up to 8000 by…

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    Comment #8377907

    Nice, thank you. I've been looking for exactly this---SQS and DynamoDB seem like a good combination.

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    Comment #8168730

    Anyone know why they use two layers of pgbouncer? The speaker mentions this briefly in the Q&A but doesn't go into detail.