Looks very promising OP. As a Rails developer I've been looking for something like this for a while. I'm getting a copy soon as hit my pad later on.
Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
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Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#42I wished there was coverage of Apache http but otherwise a very interesting book!
I chose NGINX because it's what I use and have a good performance. I am curious, why are you interested in Apache in particular? Is that what you run now?
My organization only uses Apache because everyone there knows it.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose if the author asked a few folks to leave positive comments on the post thats not too crazy. I'd do the same thing if I was trying to promote something. I think I'd draw the line at something more programmatic, like some gray hat creating sock puppet accounts.
The HN guidelines[1] say: > Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion. I believe that means that asking people to leave positive comments on a post is something the guidelines ask you not to do. But I would agree that, for instance, just posting on your social media "I posted this on HN, check out th…
The same guidelines that you linked also say:
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#44Really? Rails, Python, and co deployment needs a book?! This is a perfect illustration of the sad state of basic skills of developers.
* Super old school. rsync over ssh. ssh to restart the process.
* Old school. "cap production deploy"
* New school. Build a container. Run it.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose if the author asked a few folks to leave positive comments on the post thats not too crazy. I'd do the same thing if I was trying to promote something. I think I'd draw the line at something more programmatic, like some gray hat creating sock puppet accounts.
They should disclose that, though. Otherwise the feedback is indistinguishable from astroturfing. Pretty much everything about this guy rubs me the wrong way. The usual cheesy testimonials / vague promises of content which never really gets previewed, the obvious astroturfing, which he continues to respond to as if they're organic genuine comments, etc. Just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
On the other side, I find your comment, and all the other comments that originated from yours, very distracting to the point that I didn't care anymore about the book itself but only about writing this (annoying and distracting) comment.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#46This might just be paranoia but a couple of the early comments on this thread feel very astro-turfy. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vich (hasn't commented since aug 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=matthieuchabert (hasn't commented for 10 months) https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vivty is slightly sketchy as well but not super cut and dry
Aside: Is HN so fragile that it requires end-users to police anomalous activity? Given the age and influence of the platform I'd assume dang and co. who moderate and maintain the board are old hands at staying on top of manipulation of the platform.
Could any mods comment on this? _Should_ we be keeping an eye out and calling out odd activity? It'd be nice to avoid posts like __blockcipher__'s; while well intentioned I could see such commentary having a chilling effect on discourse.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#47From the testimonial on the page:
4 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM, and automated backups for barely €15 a month.
Where can you get a VPS for so cheap, I do not think even Hetzner goes that low?
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#48For a book on deployment, I feel there is too much content on setting up a server. Would have like to see pros and cons of differing ways to deploy.
Also, for taking apps to production, there should definitely be a part on high availability.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#49Does it cover minimum viable Rails deployments?
I want to know how to push only pre-configured dependencies without Docker. So no build tools in production, just pre-built binaries. (Specifically not building gems on the production server.)
Re: Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
#50This might just be paranoia but a couple of the early comments on this thread feel very astro-turfy. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vich (hasn't commented since aug 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=matthieuchabert (hasn't commented for 10 months) https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vivty is slightly sketchy as well but not super cut and dry
Show HN has a major problem with that these days. The comments that are just like "perfect timing! I have never seen a resource for this and I'm just learning it now" are really facile, no one actually interacts with people selling you things like this, and it's contrasted starkly with the one comment giving feedback on the page which is that it has no content at all unless you buy it. I find it very hard to believe…
> no one actually interacts with people selling you things like this
There's a whole successful social network (Goodreads) built on people's desire to talk about books, frequently in the form of effusive praise. I think being able to trace the product to a single individual (e.g. a book's author) helps make it particularly appealing to leave that sort of feedback: we know it feels great to hear that someone values a thing you've created, and we like the idea of giving that pleasure to the creators of things we like.