2017 and my dude still trying to sell consulting by applying the old emacs vs vim strategy. I usually defer to facebook using thousands of mysql and other big companies using way more instances of pgsql for day to day advice. Maybe next time, with a better blog or a matrix with some effective info noting the experience you guys have managing/developing against it. Also the patch for MySQL would be appreciated, why it did took you so long ? xoxox
Nice write up that should become the go-to tutorial for TF and local training. Helped me a lot w/ the mobile part, it was a bit strange to thing about transfer the training when I read at first but it became clear in the second reading.
Good call ! I think the value of lightsail is more of what you get along with it (S3, other products and a path to scale up) than the vps itself (which can be had by less than both aws and DO are charging on alternative providers). DO is hard to beat on iops but it has been years they are asked to release a loadbalancer or basic stuff you can horizontally scale your apps. Linode has that but their VMs seems to "age" faster than DO (in terms of losing performance after some time due to neighbours).
Pipes was really cool. Their email still sought after (at least in latin america) for corporate customers. Perhaps a SaaS spin off with email, pipes, ecommerce search/recommendation and other cool tools they release all these years ?
docker brought back the frenzy of delivering software in a tarball just like slackware in the past. Long live patrick volkerdig and tar -zxvf ... -C / !
My fave locust setup is spinning up aws instances to tests from time to time. I've created ansible automation to help on that (https://github.com/gleicon/locust-swarm) but it can be done manually. I still look on how to make it run casper.js tests but I think it would interfere with locust's performance.
I don't know about this cp/m backport as MSX-DOS but can tell that CP/M programs ran unmoddified: dbase II and a texteditor I forgot the name were ported from TRS-80 and required a software driver to achieve 64 columns or an external card for 80 cols. In Brazil we have plenty of msx 1 and reverse engineered msx2 boards.
I wonder how long it will take to leak their data, spec those associated with facebook logins.Not surprised that they failed, it had plenty negative and offending posts and no cats/burgers/porn.
You get these feelings even when you are not fired and going thru a bad period in your job etc. Loved that he is very articulated and honest, it makes for a nice piece to read and think again and again.
I'm sure he will get nicer gigs in the futures and wish the best of luck.