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Their databases are hosted on AWS and GCP so latency isn't much of an issue. They also have AWS Private Link and if configured it won't go over the internet.

The issues weren't PlanetScale related. We use Hasura and when we did the cutover, we connected to the DB via PGBouncer and some features don't work right. Started seeing a lot of …

We just migrated to PlanetScale Postgres Metal over the weekend. We are already seeing major query improvements. The migration was pretty smooth. Post-migration we hit a few issues…

This used to be the case when the platforms were much younger and new features were introduced every year. But I would say it’s mostly stabilized now. React native had day 1 suppor…

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I see benchmarks against Aurora, but I’m curious to see how this compares to Aurora Optimized reads which caches data in a local NVMe SSD. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/lat…

Seems like a lot of extra work in cases where we change the scoring mechanism, we will then have to invalidate the existing entries, recalculate and write it out again compared to …

How do sync engines address issues where we need something to be more dynamic? Currently I'm building a language learning app and we need to display your "learning path" - what les…

Hi HN, We're a small team building AI tutors out of India, and as you might guess, this means we spend a ton of time writing, testing, and refining prompts for LLMs. When we starte…

Do they find ARC AGI also tough due to the same reason? I’ve seen some examples where the input was ASCII art versions of the actual image.

I wonder if the reason the models have problem with this is that their tokens aren't the same as our characters. It's like asking someone who can speak English (but doesn't know ho…

Yes, it is. Try setting font-thicken = true https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#font-thicken

I wonder if they considered https://tigerbeetle.com

I might beat that for this batch! This will be my 8th application. 2 for my previous company, and 6 with my current startup and co founders.

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Yes, the egress fees on base backups alone were higher than the cost of the DB VMs. If we replicate the WAL also, it would be way higher. In the post, the example DB was 4.3 GB, bu…

Don't remember the size, but the disk we were using had the highest IOPS available on Google Cloud. That was one of the reason why we had restore from GCS since these disks wouldn'…

I have forgotten the exact reason but it had something to do with not having a valid payment method. Some change on Google Cloud end triggered it - they were billing initially with…

A very much needed feature. Had a nightmare scenario in my previous startup where Google Cloud just killed all our servers and yanked out access. We got back access in an hour or s…

It has become very practical / doable in the recent year or so. In my experience, if you have lot of frontend web experience, the easiest way to ship a RN app is by using Solito [0…

As a customer, the app and service works really well. It is now my first choice to look for an Auto ride compared to Uber / Ola.