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wkiefer

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About wkiefer

https://github.com/wkiefer

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    Comment #27143864

    > Is my understanding correct in that a "Pane" is essentially a UI component? Yes — it is essentially a UI component (and the only node that represents UI). > And I am assuming the…

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    Comment #27143788

    Good question — leaving out comparison with a traditional state machine wasn't intentional so I'm glad you asked. A state machine will typically fully describe all the state at any…

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    Comment #27132403

    Airflow is an acyclic graph, but our user experience graphs have cycles (intentionally). Airflow also focuses a bit more on being a multi-process data pipeline with workers rather …

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    Comment #27124386

    Thanks for the questions! > How is session state kept? It's kept as encrypted blobs in redis that times out after some amount of inactivity (to clean up stale sessions) > Is /event…

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    Comment #27123735

    > 1. How you implemented this on the backend? Did you consider using something like Temporal, AWS Simple Workflow, or AWS Step Functions? Given this already a major change in our c…

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    Comment #27122577

    That's super helpful context, thanks.

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    Comment #27122467

    There certainly is some conceptual overlap in defining an experience/decision making process as a directional graph. However, to my limited knowledge of this, BPMN doesn't quite di…

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    Comment #27121358

    Good question — we used https://github.com/projectstorm/react-diagrams

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    Comment #27120766

    Hi folks — author/engineer here. Happy to answer any questions about this system!

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    Comment #2716741

    No need - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716707

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    Comment #2716707

    That's just the Web Clip bar - which you can turn off in Settings->Web Clips.