Hacker News Reader

Thanks, yes I was a member of the Discord at launch. Good stuff.

bjflanneon Physical Silver prices soar 6% on fears of bank defaults, inventory shortages

Indeed, but it didn't move by as much which is why the post was on silver as the percentage move was higher, and stole headlines.

Which is what happens when the Gold:Silver ratio tries to revert to mean.

bjflanneon Credit Suisse shares tank 10% on restructuring, capital concerns

yeah, and Deutsche Bank is in similar shape. CS is just the canary in the coal mine.

bjflanneon Chinese Scientists create process to turn Copper into 'Gold'

I agree, that's why I said 'Gold' - it's not gold, it just is an attempt at replicating some of the best industrial aspects of it.

bjflanneon Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?

It sounds like it's time for an ICO... all the cool kids are doing it.

But in all seriousness one in the hand is not worth two in the bush in these scenarios it's worth a thousand in the bush.

bjflanneon Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?

It sounds like it's time for an ICO...just saying.

bjflanneon A Virtual LAN using NATS, written in Go

Well said; the other project involving NATS from the Rapidloop team (gRPC over NATS essentially) mentions some benefits as they see it which are what you've pointed out: https://github.com/rapidloop/nrpc

bjflanneon How do you cut a monolith in half?

A follow up from a reader on this article: http://bravenewgeek.com/smart-endpoints-dumb-pipes/

bjflanneon Alchemy Micro-Service Framework: Using RabbitMQ Instead of HTTP

Also felt this post by Diogo in the NATS community was interesting here:

http://www.diogogmt.com/2016/02/08/benchmarking-nats-and-res...

bjflanneon Event Enabling IoT Using AWS Lambda, NATS, and Apcera

Thanks for pointing that out!..should be resolved in PR that should go live asap.

bjflanneon NATS – An open-source, high-performance, lightweight messaging system

Also, I should add we've made some significant updates since the article you referenced, and are currently performing additional benchmarking, but some examples: https://twitter.com/derekcollison/status/635541819393245184

It would be helpful to understand what you are trying to achieve, and what characteristics in messaging infrastructure are most important to you?

bjflanneon NATS – An open-source, high-performance, lightweight messaging system

Hi guys I'm on the Community/Ecosystem side of NATS...timely comment. Persistence is actually on the roadmap but we only just discussed end of August at our Bay Area meetup:https://youtu.be/jxpYszUi8JQ

Please feel free to ping me with further questions, comments, ideas etc if you'd like to chat further: brian@apcera.com