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Stripe: Open Source
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame?
I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame? Whoah, I didn't notice that Netflix and Facebook became the only tech companies on Earth.
No, but from what I understand op saying is that most open source from companies are lame, and I haven't seen any lame open source projects from companies, even if in languages I don't like. So by saying "Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable." it comes off that op things that.
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#53Some great stuff here! The 'personal projects' are a nice touch: I've been using Goji (https://github.com/zenazn/goji) for a while now as my 'go to' router+context combo for Go web services. Small, extensible and compatible with the other tools out there.
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#54Mashape is another startup that contributes a lot in the API space with mainstream OSS projects such as: OAuthBible [1], Unirest [2], HTTPsnippet [3], Guardian [4] and KONG [5]. [1] https://github.com/Mashape/mashape-oauth [2] http://unirest.io/ [3] https://github.com/Mashape/httpsnippet [4] https://github.com/Mashape/guardian [5] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
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#55why did you guys invent mosql [1] ? you are clearly loving postgres and cannot get rid of it... but potentially with jsonb in 9.5 [2] you can get rid of mongodb. With the kind of resources you have, you could fix the few things about postgres that you dont like. [1] https://github.com/stripe/mosql/blob/master/README.md [2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9....
Or use ToroDB (http://www.torodb.com) that speaks the MongoDB protocol but stores the data relationally, in PostgreSQL. Directly. No ETL, no mosql required :)
(ToroDB developer here)
Re: Stripe: Open Source
#56why did you guys invent mosql [1] ? you are clearly loving postgres and cannot get rid of it... but potentially with jsonb in 9.5 [2] you can get rid of mongodb. With the kind of resources you have, you could fix the few things about postgres that you dont like. [1] https://github.com/stripe/mosql/blob/master/README.md [2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9....
Or use ToroDB ( http://www.torodb.com ) that speaks the MongoDB protocol but stores the data relationally, in PostgreSQL. Directly. No ETL, no mosql required :) (ToroDB developer here)
I just checked out the page. This seems like an interesting project, but how would rewriting unstructured documents into relational form be faster to query than just retrieving the whole document as jsonb or whatever?
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#57Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. These projects are extensive and awesome. I love the personal projects section at the bottom of the page. You can see why Stripe is so successful. They truly have a dev culture and that's a lot more than most companies that just say they have a dev culture. At Stripes scale and size that's a big success.
True. I just came across Rickshaw[0] from Shutterstock. I'd love to use it, but there hasn't been a commit in 8 months, pull requests are backlogged and there's a thread titled "Is Rickshaw dead?"[1] that hasn't had any response in months (either to shift maintenance to someone else or kill/fork the project).
It looks like a poster child of companies open source projects done wrong. I'm sure it was developed for internal use, made public with a prominent "Open Source! We're Hiring!"[2] and then mostly forgotten about. Not that maintenance is easy! It's a big commitment, which is why Stripe really shines here: not just for open sourcing their code, but for maintaining their projects continuously.
[0] https://github.com/shutterstock/rickshaw
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#58Re: Stripe: Open Source
#59Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. These projects are extensive and awesome. I love the personal projects section at the bottom of the page. You can see why Stripe is so successful. They truly have a dev culture and that's a lot more than most companies that just say they have a dev culture. At Stripes scale and size that's a big success.
I recently changed my website's donation page to a Stripe-powered system, and their API was a pleasure to work with. Having worked with horrible payment processors throughout my webdev career, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop--but it's been a couple of months now, and so far it's still just the one shoe.
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#60Mashape is another startup that contributes a lot in the API space with mainstream OSS projects such as: OAuthBible [1], Unirest [2], HTTPsnippet [3], Guardian [4] and KONG [5]. [1] https://github.com/Mashape/mashape-oauth [2] http://unirest.io/ [3] https://github.com/Mashape/httpsnippet [4] https://github.com/Mashape/guardian [5] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
You guys appear to have a whole posse of accounts promoting your stuff in dubious ways on HN. I'm not sure exactly where the line is between normal sharing of information and abuse, but wherever it is, you're on the wrong side.
HN threads are for conversations, not commercials. There's nothing wrong with linking to one's own work when it comes up naturally in a genuine conversation. Abusing conversation for promotional purposes, though, is another matter. When accounts do that repeatedly, we ban them as well as the site they're promoting.