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I think this primarily comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of where the value in streaming services lies from the perspective of old world media giants. The majority of pe…

Agreed. I’ve had to create dedicated SPAs for several projects recently which is a huge shame. I’d be interested to understand the architectural goals of the Django project moving …

Thanks for the reply. Agreed on the templating side of things - it certainly makes building sophisticated UXs harder. Great point around project structure and ability to move betwe…

Interesting to hear your comparison to Django and that you wouldn’t say they’re on par, at least for you, today. Any particular reasons for preferring Rails over Django?

I think any company exploring ways to improve the financial system should be given plenty of space to do so, but I think the fundamental issue facing Coinbase, and all other crypto…

Did AWS just pay them to write this? I was hoping for an interesting article exploring the complexities of a massively distributed and high-throughout system, but I just read “we c…

"I used a free service and it wasn't great" Then use another service or pay for it. This is highly unlikely to be as simple as the author conjects, we're talking about a service th…

I fundamentally disagree with the conclusions of this article. It doesn't take long to "build software" - git was built in a weekend, Facebook a similar timeline. When the environm…

Fantastic work. The on-boarding is excellent and first use is very intuitive. You've done a great job of abstracting away the complexity of defining the data models so that I was a…

Pretty much. It's similar to discovering the power of salt and pepper in cooking. When you first use it everything tastes better. But the next step is not to increase the amounts y…

This is the typical "we didn't spend any time thinking about our architecture therefore we're going to blame our framework" article. React is a great choice for certain use-cases, …