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As usual with crypto, it's up to the investor to perform due diligence. BUSD as of Oct 29th had a market cap of $13.1B USD which was fully backed by fiat USD held in bank accounts …

YMMV. Personally, you would have to pry my Bitnami images out of my cold dead hands.. there is just no way my team of 2 can do anywhere near as good.

It's a crypto wallet with a javascript API, so web apps can do crypto things.

A game that exists in two blockchains would offer a way to bridge assets between them, or succeeded by one that does. In fact the opposite is starting to be true: assets from game …

They chose their own tokens but those tokens are valued in ETH at the end of the day.

Exactly this, Plaid "kindly requests" you violate the ToS you have with the bank and hand over the keys to your finances. I have never noped out of anything so hard.

Every single iOS user I know uses Chrome as their browser specifically because Safari is a broken mess in which nothing ever works.

If this article was trying to get me to try ClojureScript, it had the exact opposite effect. Beautiful syntax to define a class had me at first, but then fell on its face when I sa…

Your experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with. I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitter accounts are carefu…

When your database is too big to backup that's a lot like a bank being too big to fail. Unwise long term strategy.

Was spending $20k/mo with IBM at the peak in 2019, have since migrated to AWS and left IBM completely. Thoughts: - Support, including paid enterprise support, was hilariously bad. …

Just make sure you have a plan to move from the tX instances into something non-burstable as soon as load gets to 30% or do.. when those machines run out of burst, the pain is inst…

We just finished rewriting a 3 year old Rails app in Node+Knex, performance with 10k concurrent sessions is roughly 4x and p95 is 10x better. Keep this in mind whenever someone dec…

For small numbers of large queries, Athena has been an incredible technology stack .. I pay pennies a month to run my analytics jobs on it (aggregates across a few hundred million …

Could someone explains in layman's terms what's going on here?

I am deeply afraid of 3 things: complexity, obscolescence and code without tests.

You didnt avtually answer the question: What free, cloud agnostic tools let me specify "keep 60% cpu load average" and work the rest out? With k8s, a horizontal autoscaler is a few…

What about resource allocation? With Kubernetes I can specify both requests and limits of cpu and memory and it will fill my nodes to match. A node autoscaler gets me more nodes if…

I have ACM certs issued and working in ap-northeast-1 and us-west-2, attached to an ALB.

I was on my way out the door one morning, taking my dog to the vet to have a lump removed. I was in a bad place. The phone rang. I knew I shouldn't pick it up, but I was in a bad p…

And I think paywalls which allow Google, but not humans, to pass through are scummy. Trying to have their cake and eat it, too..

I am a big fan of Knex for just this reason. It's not an ORM, just a migration manager and query builder. It makes easy stuff easy, and for complex stuff it gets out of your way. I…

I've dropped Google Analytics in favor of good old fashioned server log parsing with several off the shelf tools. The load times of my site, the quality of my stats and the privacy…

Yes absolutely, the launch of brick and mortar was supposed to satisfy the "want some right now" crowd but high prices have turned a lot of folks off. Weedmaps is the defacto "loca…

As a consumer of cannabis for several decades prior to legalization, it has indeed gone very well. I am in Ontario and my first legal online order took 3 weeks, but delivery is now…