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Fly.io is not built on top of AWS. see https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/

thttpd ( http://acme.com/software/thttpd/ ), mini_httpd ( http://acme.com/software/mini_httpd/ ) and micro_httpd ( http://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/ ) from acme software worth …

Is XBRL any good? I see more filings on EDGAR/SEDAR using that.

When you have remote hands and need to tell, over the phone, what to edit in BIOS of a specific Lenovo PC?

You can still access com.zone [1], you have to fill a form and have a phone call with verisign and you get access to a good old FTP with a daily dump. Some other TLDs gives access …

It's a simple redis list containing JSON task. We have a custom Scrapy Spider hooked to next_request and item_scraped [1]. It check (lpop) for update/discovery tasks in the list an…

We monitor exceptions with Sentry. We store raw data so we don't have to hurry to fix the ETL, we only have to fix navigation logic and we keep crawling.

I maintain ~30 different crawlers. Most of them are using Scrapy. Some are using PhantomJS/CasperJS but they are called from Scrapy via a simple web service. All data (zip files, p…

What's wrong about billing hourly? Sometimes a client ask me to check something that's not working as expected, it could take less than 10mins, I won't do it for free nor bill a we…