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I did not invent the term serverless. Generally the term serverless is used to refer to a cloud function concept.

Thanks for pointing this out. I will look into fixing this.

I created a site to demonstrate how to setup a blog on AWS lambda.

This post is rather naive. Pandas performance improves when one uses in built functions. Also the performance of pandas is better over numpy for larger sizes [1]. [1] http://goutha…

Are there a lot of quants in the US that use QuantLib? I see there is a large community in Europe and Canada. Would like to hear from fellow quants in the US on their experience us…

I tried web2py a little bit. I liked the fact that a lot of basic things get setup initially. But all the globals confused the heck out of me. Couldn't quite understand the right w…

Well there are work around options to the restriction with SQLAlchemy that you mention here. You can use SQLAlchemy core instead of ORM and write your models independent of web con…

Its not clear to me why you think "PHP is not a very good language for the majority of what we're building". In my opinion, you should have a strong reason for rewriting an applica…

This makes sense. Thanks for the input.

Thanks for the feedback. This makes sense.

This sounds great! I am looking for some initial users that can give some critical feedback as well. I will get in touch with you soon. Thanks!

Can you explain why you think this is a two sided marketplace problem? In my case the subscribers of my site are the consumers. But I need a lot of subscribers to start with so tha…

I have been working on a side project that would be a database of people interested in carpooling. If people don't signup, the website is useless. I am trying to figure out how to …

A Flask extension to quickly add blog support to your web application. Uses SQLAlchemy to support multiple databases.

Thanks for the article. It is very illuminating. I hear a lot of buzz on TDD. But I think TDD is not the end. There are complexities in application which is sometimes hard to compr…

HN'ers, I would like to hear from you all about testing methodologies, and what you consider as best practice. Do you see any advantage of the test-first paradigm? What is fad and …

Flask is so minimal. Curious what were the disadvantages that weighed against chosing Flask.

I can see a case for microservices as a way to break down complexity. But introducing languages willy-nilly could have maintenance nightmares along the road.

I had the time to read a good portion of this book. Really well written. I hope some of the negative comments don't discourage you from sharing your work next time around. I learnt…