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bjw181··on The Tech That Powers Our Serverless Cloud
"When you update your code or delete a project, we just remove the container and start up another if necessary"

They keep warm containers of your instance in their orchestration

bjw181··on Ask HN: How Do You Usually Plan and Approach Your Solo Projects?
Depends on the project. If its monetary, you need to approach it with a business mindset and the Domain Drive Design standard works well here (although it can be overkill at times)

For everything else I think design should drive the backend development. Annotate some figma mockups and you can build your schema off of that.

bjw181··on Java EE or Python Django?
I'd say Django. Its fast to get things running, security and CSRF out of the box. Very mature framework with a huge following.
bjw181··on I got 69 paying customers after failing for one year
nice
bjw181··on Ask HN: Looking to start freelancing
I've read a couple answers on here regarding the situation, but they were all from ~3-5 years ago. The landscape has probably changed quite a bit since then. I feel the market is over-saturated and clients outsourcing to ultra-low bids is a real hurdle. Every freelance site has thousands of these bids. Can be discouraging at the least. Fingers crossed!
bjw181··on Ask HN: What is your Golang web-dev tech stack?
I'm curious. I've used GoLang's simple web server before, but I'm interested in what GoLang provides over Node. To me, it seems Go is especially well suited for microservices and tasks requiring a lot of CPU intensive processes while Node is better when working with small requests over the wire.

In other words, what is Go's main selling point in competing with Node in terms of its http server, TCP sockets, etc...

Can Go's awesome concurrency patterns be used to optimize server requests? Can it be well utilized as a proxy?

bjw181··on Ask HN: What are the good channels on YouTube to learn?
I literally could not keep a straight face watching the first video. Is this guy for real?
bjw181··on Ask HN: An API to store/retrieve JSON?
Surprised no one has mentioned Redis...Its stored in your server's ram and can store JSON strings.
bjw181··on Ask HN: Good place to look at a CRM database schema?
Ah forgot the title. Thank you.
bjw181··on Ask HN: What is best Node.js framework?
React and postgres are great. I think you already have a solid stack with just those two. React offers a lot of what a large framework can eliminating a lot of the fluff things like Angular seems to include. That being said, I don't use frameworks and code in pure TS -> JS these days and borrow things a specific project needs from more popular frameworks, tweaking it for what I need.

Meteor is good for prototyping and getting something up fast. I find it very amateurish and highly abstracted. If you're a green developer, you aren't going to learn anything using Meteor. Also, I believe support for this framework is dying. Its highly, "Meteor's way or the highway"

Express is more just glue between your front end and your server/backend that uses Node as its adhesive. Its pretty great for eliminating a lot of boilerplate you would otherwise run into.

bjw181··on Ask HN: Does anyone else have (or had) problems in dating or getting married?
If you're lucky you'll skip to bedroom acrobatics
bjw181··on Ask HN: What is encapsulation in Python?
What is encapsulation in any language? Put simply, we encapsulate mainly to prevent mistakingly altering data. For example, private methods and variables.

    Class Foo:
        def __init__(self):
            self.__im_private()
    
        def bar(self):
            print('baz')

        def __im_private(self):
            print('back off, I can only be called by the class')
bjw181··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)

  Location: Orange County, CA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: JS, Node, Mongo, SQL, Angular, HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, Python
  Resume/CV: https://bwheel181.github.io
  Email: bwheel181@gmail.com
Looking for full-stack work on the entry - junior level. Ideally my work would center around the MEAN stack but I am well versed in Python as low level programming (C++/Java) as well.
bjw181··on What innovations can be brought to the Commercial Real Estate industry?
We use Costar almost exclusively. When you discuss new ways of getting data, how would that be something materially different from Costar? What about innovations for a contact management system?
bjw181··on Ask HN: Where can I watch an Xcode Master at Work?
I dont know about Xcode but if you youtube "<programming language> speedcoding" you can find some people doing real work.
bjw181··on Ask HN: Why are you still at your current job?
I have a finance degree and am in the US. I've been self taught for the past few years. I know the basics of programming and its easy for me to learn a new language but proving to tech firms here has proved difficult except for small short term gigs ironing out wordpress issues and writing data mining scripts. Any advice how to break out into the industry would be greatly appreciated.
bjw181··on Ask HN: Why are you still at your current job?
1) I'm stuck. Can't make it at a programming job since my major was not CS.

2) Freelance doesn't really work without a portfolio to gain traction

Horrible situation because money was never an issue to me. I just wanted to pursue my passion. If I was able to remotely work for $20/hr. I would gladly move to a low cost of living country.