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I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Congratulations, that's an impressive achievement. I've successfully evaded learning anything about Kubernetes this far, but I guess this is a good opportunity to see what I've been missing.

Maybe. Please read it and tell me if it helped fill the gaps, since that was the main point.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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post #7

> PDF optimized for on-screen technical reading PDF isn't optimized for that, like now, reading the article a phone, I couldn't properly check out a chapter because PDF is awful in optimizing itself for a smaller screen

what is the operating screen, the app you reading on and the model of the phone ?

Any? PDF is fixed-width and is currently laid out for desktop, so bigger than any phone - though even there, you might want to use the guide side-by-side with your actual host shell to follow some instructions - and hit the same limitation on a smaller laptop screen where text wouldn't fit and you'd have to scroll.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Tried to check it out but can't comment on the contents, because gumroad is apparently the intersection of facebook, cloudflare and google and specializes in serving millions of captcha's, then when solving all of them bluntly tells the transaction could not complete. There is a special place in hell for sites like gumroad.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

#25

I’ve been working on this for nearly two years. I originally aimed to complete it before my son was born, but he’s now 16 months old. Go figure. Seems like writing a book is harder than it looks. My original motivation was to write something I would want to read since most resources I found on self-hosting were either too shallow, lacked real-world examples like code, or didn’t fully address the knowledge gaps I kept…

I got to the word 'book' and got the joke of this submission title. Thanks.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

#27

Thank you so much for such a useful book, I really appreciate what you did! But please add alternative payment methods to thank you, I don't trust leaving credit card details on third-party services

I trust gumroad or stripe way way more than some stranger's homegrown CC form

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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post #7

> PDF optimized for on-screen technical reading PDF isn't optimized for that, like now, reading the article a phone, I couldn't properly check out a chapter because PDF is awful in optimizing itself for a smaller screen

Yep. I would prefer to see an epub version, which would be readable on more devices with different form factors, plus you could change the fonts and spacing etc.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

#29

Tried to check it out but can't comment on the contents, because gumroad is apparently the intersection of facebook, cloudflare and google and specializes in serving millions of captcha's, then when solving all of them bluntly tells the transaction could not complete. There is a special place in hell for sites like gumroad.

Yep, i hit the same issue(s). Gave up after a couple tries.
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