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If I am not wrong, this is what both Facebook and Apple trying to do. Both these platforms can sell individual articles but they choose not to do so due to high overhead in the pay…

This is indeed a huge problem. In the current form, it quickly become unsustainable (in terms of both time and money) for customers to work with so many subscriptions. Maybe the en…

Best wishes to Stripe. They deserve to succeed. I speculate that the biggest competition for Stripe is going to be Amazon which will use AWS to rollout payments API.

For small setups, it is better to stay away from Kubernetes until it reaches a good level of stability. We jumped early on in the K8S bandwagon (before AWS EKS) and paid a steep pr…

I am part of the tech team in a fintech startup processing 100s of 1000s of payment transactions. Part of our team is inclined towards applying first principles thinking for core t…

Regarding `avoid side-effects`, the amount of side-effects that are required for a typical real problem solving code base is quite reasonably measurable. For example, the number of…

Well deserved! I remember that before BootStrap came to the scene, we used to work with BluePrint CSS. BluePrint gave a nice canvas and concealed all the IE6 related issues. Howeve…

The article is postulating only a theory. We have seen the opposite true in credit card forms where users have to input card expiry date. No matter what sort of formatting we did, …

I was expecting this for a while now. But the pricing part isn't very clear. Is it $149 per instance or for the solution itself? Could be better if the article elaborates more on t…

High availability is the main requirement. Since we are running our hosts in AWS, we are sure that the host(s) running influx would go down certainly few times a year. Will look mo…

Influx HA cluster pricing is very expensive for our data size, which is sub 100G data. For a 3 node cluster, influx is charging $18,000 per annum. https://influxdata.com/pricing/#p…