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I am pursuing this path. I'm interested in fulfilled by Amazon-type products in addition to software projects. It's truly amazing how "easy" it is run one of these businesses solo in comparison to before the internet.
What do you mean by "fulfilled by Amazon-type products"?
I'm really fascinated by this career path. As I approach 40 I'm really feeling the pain of the whole developer vs manager dichotomy. The fact is, I've always been comfortable on both sides as a generalist and a team lead, but as my career progresses I'm increasingly feeling the pressure to specialize either by going full-time or specializing in some area that can command a hire salary than the reams of bootcamp dev g…
Can someone please explain the open-source yet earning? Is it that part of the project is open source and the rest is paid and closed source? How to protect products if they're open source?
Core is open, paid product extends the core, and you access via a private gem server. You have the code at that point, and it's not DRM'ed or encrypted or anything. Nothing to keep you from running it after your subscription stops. Some features, like unique jobs, are covered by other open source extensions to Sidekiq - Mike happily lists those projects inside of Sidekiq's wiki. Much of this openness seems counterint…
I'm a fan of sidkiq but holding out using a different more atomic redis command for 'pro' is pretty lame - it's closer to 'intentional gimping' than 'open-core'.
Adding reliable fetching is much, much harder than you think. It's taken me years to get it right.
IMHO Sidekiq succeeded, because it works smoother, than other (Ruby-based) task scheduling systems, but can we say the same for Celery? It seems pretty stable and is used in production by many organizations and companies, so the question is, could one do the same for the Python ecosystem, or is Celery just in such a good shape, that it's hard to compete with (considering the same open-core model)?
I'm really fascinated by this career path. As I approach 40 I'm really feeling the pain of the whole developer vs manager dichotomy. The fact is, I've always been comfortable on both sides as a generalist and a team lead, but as my career progresses I'm increasingly feeling the pressure to specialize either by going full-time or specializing in some area that can command a hire salary than the reams of bootcamp dev g…
What's the opensource alternative to sidekiq? I am impressed he gets this much money out of developer tools...
My favorite things about Sidekiq (and how Mike runs it) are:
1) The documentation and wiki pages of Sidekiq. [0]
2) The weekly happy hour chats. [1]
The docs and getting started guides are some of best I've seen in OSS -- everything is well-documented and thought through. There's a lot of good things to emulate here.
In addition to his years of conferences talks, blogging, and helpfulness through over mediums... Mike has a weekly happy hour on Fridays to answer questions. I've done it a couple times and he's been extremely helpful.
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Core is open, paid product extends the core, and you access via a private gem server. You have the code at that point, and it's not DRM'ed or encrypted or anything. Nothing to keep you from running it after your subscription stops. Some features, like unique jobs, are covered by other open source extensions to Sidekiq - Mike happily lists those projects inside of Sidekiq's wiki. Much of this openness seems counterint…
Not being of the Ruby world, I did not understand what his licensing method would entail. Amazingly simple, yet profitable. I guess the fear of missing out is what keeps the annual subscriptions re-upped.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am pursuing this path. I'm interested in fulfilled by Amazon-type products in addition to software projects. It's truly amazing how "easy" it is run one of these businesses solo in comparison to before the internet.
What do you mean by "fulfilled by Amazon-type products"?