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Show HN: Durable Endpoints – make any API endpoint unbreakable

inngest.com
8 points·by tonyhb·hace 5 meses·0 comments

Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

36 points·by tonyhb·hace 8 meses·16 comments

GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)

githut.info
88 points·by tonyhb·hace 8 meses·33 comments

Explicit APIs vs. Magic Directives

inngest.com
3 points·by tonyhb·hace 9 meses·0 comments

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tonyhb
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Vitess was made by a... US tech company?
tonyhb
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Inngest's Durable Endpoints aim to solve the durable API problem without messy DB txns, all within some tolerance: https://www.inngest.com/docs/learn/durable-endpoints.

Other than that, yes, durable execution does all of this for you.

TLDR on Durable Endpoints: you can automatically use steps in API endpoints which checkpoint state in the BG, and then retry on failure. This means you can run jobs in the background _somewhat_ transactionally (somewhat because there's delay between checkpointing) to minimize any tradeoffs here. And, if you want full transactionality, don't buffer checkpoints in the BG and instead do it synchronously.

Also, Redis is good for medium scale load. We're hitting millions of RPS (aggregated) on our services (I work at Inngest) and it doesn't scale so well at this load, at all. We had to invest in other infra.
tonyhb
·hace 4 meses·discuss
AWS is down and so being a reseller ofc Vercel is down too.
tonyhb
·hace 5 meses·discuss
IDK, it looks like servers were up, connectivity worked well, and some builds were failing. Wouldn't call that a big issue, and the same thing was happening with Vercel due to their git clones etc. yesterday too.

IOW, doesnt look as bad as the title suggests?
tonyhb
·hace 6 meses·discuss
> And people die all the time.

Yes... but people can only focus on one thing at a time. We don't have 360 vision. We have blind spots! We don't even know the exact speed of our car without looking away from the road momentarily! Vision based cars obviously don't have these issues. Just because some cars are 100% vision doesn't mean that it has to share all of the faults we have when driving.

That's not me in favour of one vs the other. I'm ambivalent and don't actually care. They can clearly both work.
tonyhb
·hace 7 meses·discuss
If you're testing the interface, changing the implementation internals won't create any churn (as the mocks and tests don't change).

If you are changing the interface, though, that would mean a contract change. And if you're changing the contract, surely you wouldn't be able to even use the old tests?

This isn't really a go problem at all. Any contract change means changing tests.
tonyhb
·hace 7 meses·discuss
Cloudbleed. It’s been a fun time.
tonyhb
·hace 8 meses·discuss
I really, really want this updated too and saw it in my bookmarks. Figured the historic data was interesting, and that someone might want to give this another go.
tonyhb
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Actually, both Vercel and Cloudflare are based off of the API that we built at https://inngest.com (disclaimer, I'm a founder).

I strongly believe that being obvious about steps with `step.run` is important: it improves o11y, makes things explicit, and you can see transactional boundaries.
tonyhb
·hace 2 años·discuss
This is my biggest gripe against Equinix. Other than that, they're 10/10.
tonyhb
·hace 6 años·discuss
You're right, but the data can be cached and the views shown optimistically. After the first fetch it should be faster.
tonyhb
·hace 6 años·discuss
On the one hand I'm kind of jealous, but on the other it's really fun :D
tonyhb
·hace 6 años·discuss
Where's dmesg, kvm, namespaces, cgroups, and package management built in?

What about inodes and cpu spikes even running node on osx? Let alone doing that inside a container.

Nah. OSX is long gone for "better dev experience". Linux always wins.
tonyhb
·hace 6 años·discuss
I suppose if you're an engineer out of touch with humans that wants to automate the motivation of your team...

I have no idea.
tonyhb
·hace 8 años·discuss
My dad owns a motorcycle training school and teaches this.
tonyhb
·hace 11 años·discuss
Their support for the Nexus line of phones has been outstanding. Anyone can phone and speak to real humans with good tech knowledge, arrange a free replacement for (first time) cracked screens, and get next day replacements.

I have no doubt that the support for this will be as good.

Now, their automated side of advertising is crappy unless you're a large spender, but then that's just economies of scale.
tonyhb
·hace 12 años·discuss
The major benefit of slack over hipchat is slack comes with integrations by default. IE: instead of having to use Zapier or such to hook into Trello slack can handle it for you.

HipChat only has an API you push to, whereas Slack can pull from other services.

We tried it and kept with HipChat. I found Slack's interface/text to be less readable than HipChat. It might look better, but for reading information and usability HipChat won. Our entire team is happy with our choice.