mluggy

Yes, I skimmed a bit on the "registration" flow. it is a simple "mailto" link with 3 advantages: a) provides the required name and email, b) verifies you're a legitimate person and c) white-list our team email so we are never marked as spam.

If someone hasn't stayed long enough to trigger GA, is it really a user? :)

Another option: only delay the scripts the first time user has landed on your page

I think the single script embed is a good path (much better than asking people to change DNS, remove scripts or such). Maybe you can optimize other areas using JS (like images).

How is this different/more scalable than running google tag manager as async, with the rest of the scripts as defer/async as well.

Not so long ago I side-project fassttt.com and thought the biggest issues are server-side, with bad images and improper caching. Ended up creating a complete minifier/compressor/cdn-enabler.

I since realized the problems are mostly client-side. Cumbersome styling framework and JS rendering engines that are dynamic and VERY hard to optimize.

BTW, if people only care about site-speed score, see https://nitropack.io/ which almost always give you a 100 score.

Hi guys, quarantine 3 project 3 (2 previous were fassttt.com and searchiiing.com).

Trying to simplify how experts communicate with clients.

Expert set a weekly price and an alias email to interact. I only forward emails from paying clients and automatically bill the others.

Stack is AWS (Lambda, SES, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3 and CloudFront) with Bluesnap for payment.

Are you an expert/consultant? What are you currently using to manage clients? How do you bill them?

tl;dr - amazon owes us $30k

albeit harder to scale, i think private lessons from the gamer have better chance

is there a reason why you can't have a deployment/set of pods per client? the article keeps mentioning every solution failed when the whole dataset hit a certain limit.

with ssl? really? I'd love to see an example

Netlify requires your entire domain moved over for custom hostname/ssl. a deal breaker for most.

somehow agree (well the 2nd camp is 4 different reasons). in any case that's valuable feedback that can be given at scale.

rejection. solo, international technical founder. rant here: https://twitter.com/mluggy/status/1118481093831876608

we crash, we learn. עם ישראל חי

sorry for the rant, just realized my gke microservices requires a minimum of $18/month each to be exposed externally..

classic cloud announcement. a new service that sorta does something sorta different based on sorta mature sorta open source that is sorta configurable and has no pricing of yet. but sure, let's go ahead and announce it.

thanks. some projects have 20+ collaborators/contributors, you're suggesting i'll let the maintainers distribute funds?

wow, great stuff. i was starting to do the same after watching dozens of yc videos. you made it better :)

guys use ansible. it care less about who's the cloud provider and uses ssh (agent-less configuration).

S3 is $0.023/GB (still x4 higher), plus $0.004 per 10K requests CloudFront is $0.085/GB, plus $0.0075-$0.01 per 10K requests) GCP is $0.08-0.12/GB (same for all services), plus $5 per 1M requests) And who says most of the bandwidth goes towards static assets? 99% of our requests are dynamic (thus the NodeJS frontends)

i assume ovh and hetzner? care to share more of your experience with them?

yes. except DO bandwidth is $0.006 instead of $0.09/GB. am I paying extra for the sole existence of other services?

"used to" - correct. my thoughts exactly 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235003

didn't get your last remark re bandwidth. If 1TB alone costs $90 at both GCP/AWS, how is 3TB + 2 CPU instance for $20 is a poor choice?

You do get additional 2-3TB per instance which alone is a couple hundred $$ in bandwidth savings. Will it cover the price of these extra instances? Obviously if you need 8 SSDs DO isn't for you. But the real question is - could GCP be more lean back and still provide the same level of service? I think so.

I wasn't focusing on product lineup. GCP is clearly superior to DO and AWS even more. I was just offering an alternative to someone primarily using compute. It seems AWS LightSail understood this too: https://amazonlightsail.com/

good old mysql. it is the cockroach of software.

funny how you're right. i just got an api shutdown notice from stormpath (yet another product that supposed to save us developers): https://stormpath.com/

hi guys, OP here. updated the post with my current stack (it is everything but fancy)

my database.rules file is over 2000 LOC, and I have lots of these: root.child('users/' + auth.uid + '/roles/admin').exists(). that's my point really, you need a supplemental user record in a second database, even if all you wanted is a bit of information attached to a user login. see this guy's question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43329143/access-firebase...

are you adding custom claims to the core firebase user or as a custom jwt/additional user object? can you have a user signed in with facebook and assign a "experiment1=b" claim to it?

yes, since you don't trust your users you have to get sensitive processes (like promotions, unlocks, rewards) on a separate server process or cloud function. this kinda defeats the purpose of serverless.