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Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by alanfriedman » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #9

What hardware is used for memory in your servers? I am clearly hoping for DRAM and BaaS

EC2 c4 8xl boxes, load balanced across multiple regions. Jk it's a micro instance.

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by dkopi » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

I'm concerned about the lack of authentication on this API. What's to prevent an attacker from modifying my booleans? just his ability to guess the guid?

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by alanfriedman » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #39

In order to be compatible with corporate IT services we might require the requests and responses to be in XML format with a corresponding XSD file True should be acceptable

We'll definitely look into that.

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by sp332 » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

cpa wrote: post #32

Good practice would recommend adding /v1/ to your API url. The state of the boolean ecosystem is moving so fast that we have no idea what booleans will look like in 5 years!

A classic from 2005 http://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by fla » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

What will you do when someone builds Byte as a service on top of your product ?

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by anaolykarpov » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

copperx wrote: post #23

Ironically, the idea is more useful than intended. One could, for example, store on/off user's preferences in the cloud without the hassle of local storage, survey responses, or even control IoT devices remotely with just the switch of a boolean.

It would need authentication and authorization for this. At least for the delete operation

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by pbnjay » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

Feature request: I really want some named booleans! Maybe this could be your revenue model?

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by alanfriedman » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

I'm just glad this was ranked higher than the SpaceX landing for a minute. Priorities are in order.

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by rubiquity » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

When can we expect Optionals as a Service to be added?

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Post by anaolykarpov » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

curun1r wrote: post #35

thangngoc89 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just want to make sure this BaSS is serious and scalable enough to handle massive boolean CRUD operations from my production product.

I, too, would like to know the answer to this. If this solution scales, I have a wonderful idea for a service that can store arbitrary data using 8 boolean values per byte. Imagine all the power that this booleans service has brought to the boolean data type being available for arbitrary data types as well!

How will such a solution store the adress of the byte?