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Bandwidth limits seem excessive?

Outbound transfer – 40GiB per app

Overall a cool idea. Would personally still prefer GCP Cloud Run which will bill me for request time only and allow me to scale based on requests per second.

nikonon Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

I prefer using a Logitech Harmony 665, program it once and good to go for all devices.

nikonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)

Universe | Platform (DevOps) Engineer | Full-time | Toronto, Canada | ONSITE

Universe is an innovative and high growth global ticketing platform acquired by Ticketmaster in 2015. The company operates independently with startup-like agility with backing of a Fortune 500 company. We build products that enable our hosts to provide unforgettable fan experiences. Given the realities of COVID, Universe has launched some popular new product solutions, including for virtual events, timed-entry and drive-ins. If you’re passionate about the magic of live experiences and want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience them, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a platform engineer to grow our team. You'll help migrate the last of our services to Kubernetes, improve our infrastructure, monitoring, DX tooling and help scale to 50k concurrent users.

Must haves: Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Go.

Nice to have: RoR, Phoenix/Elixir, FluxCD/Helm.

I am one of the hiring managers. NO white boarding. Please contact me directly at sean.drumm [at] universe.com. (Note: We cannot sponsor visas at this time, sorry)

nikonon One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

Agreed! Funnily enough, this doesn't work on my 2015 MBP, just my newer Touchbar one.

nikonon One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

I've successfully configured my Mac to use AptX with my Sony headphones.

Follow this guide: https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/31/mac-how-to-force-aptx-aac-on-...

nikonon New case studies about Google’s use of Go

It really doesn't matter day to day once you're in the loop (cough). I agree, it's an ugly language on the face of it, but you get over that quickly. You come to appreciate the language as a whole.

A bigger concern when I started out with Go was the imports/lack of versioning, and at the time the lack of official package manager.

nikonon First tax year with Stripe Atlas

Most Provinces require at least 1 Canadian (PR or Citizen) director.

nikonon Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

iMessage too

nikonon How to deploy a React app for free

Couple of reasons why you'd pick one of these services over a $5 DO droplet:

- Maintenance (zero)

- Auto deployment

- Global CDN

- Serverless functions can deal with spikes automatically, but cost zero when idle

nikonon File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design

Accept interfaces, return structs?

nikonon Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer

Will you increase your rps limits? Surely they are a big blocker for larger organizations.

nikonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

Universe | Platform Engineer | Full-time | Toronto, Canada | ONSITE

Universe is an innovative and high growth global ticketing platform acquired by Ticketmaster in 2015. The company operates independently with startup-like agility with backing of a Fortune 500 company. We build products that enable our hosts to provide unforgettable fan experiences. Given the realities of COVID, Universe has launched some popular new product solutions, including for virtual events, timed-entry and drive-ins. If you’re passionate about the magic of live experiences and want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience them, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a platform engineer to grow our team. You'll help migrate the last of our services to Kubernetes, improve our infrastructure, monitoring, DX tooling and help scale to 50k concurrent users.

Must haves: Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Go.

Nice to have: RoR, Phoenix/Elixir, FluxCD/Helm.

I am one of the hiring managers. NO white boarding. Please contact me directly at sean.drumm [at] universe.com.

nikonon Hiring Without Whiteboards

I had the same experience on some vague Postgres question for a Rails job when I was junior. I asked a similar question along the lines of: how often do you use this day to day here?

Similar response.

nikonon The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers

I'm looking forward to this when I move next. I currently have Rogers 1Gbps on a promotional rate, which is pretty good, but 30Mbps upload cap. Also double what you're paying!

nikonon DHH: Hey's Monolith Stack RoR and TurboLink and MySQL and Elastic and Redis

Interested in how TurboLinks handles traffic like this?

nikonon Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?

Flux or Argo can help with this. The operator lives on your cluster, and ensures your cluster state matches a Git repo with all your configuration in it.

Flux - https://github.com/fluxcd/flux

ArgoCD - https://argoproj.github.io/argo-cd/

nikonon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

Résumé/CV: Email

Email: sean@drumm.ca

Github: https://github.com/sjdweb

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I've just relocated to Toronto, Canada from London, UK and I am actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities.

I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Would love to build out my network and discuss projects for 2020.

nikonon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020)

SEEKING WORK | TORONTO, CANADA | REMOTE OK Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

Résumé/CV: Email me

Email: sean@drumm.ca

Github: https://github.com/sjdweb

--

I've just relocated to Toronto, Canada and I am actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities. I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Would love to build out my network and discuss projects for 2020.

nikonon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020)

SEEKING WORK | TORONTO, CANADA | REMOTE OK

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

Résumé/CV: Email me

Email: sean@drumm.ca

Github: https://github.com/sjdweb

--

I've just relocated to Toronto, Canada and I am actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities. I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Would love to build out my network and discuss projects for 2020.

nikonon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

Résumé/CV: Email

Email: sean@drumm.ca

Github: https://github.com/sjdweb

--

I've just relocated to Toronto, Canada in March from London, UK and I am actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities.

I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Would love to build out my network and discuss projects for 2020.

nikonon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?

SEEKING WORK | TORONTO, CANADA | REMOTE OK

  Location: Toronto, Canada

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Yes

  Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

  Résumé/CV: Email me

  Email: sean@drumm.ca

  Github: https://github.com/sjdweb

--

I've just relocated to Toronto, Canada and I actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities. I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Would love to build out my network and discuss projects for 2020.

nikonon 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

There are more than 4 weeks in a month, should you not divide by 4.33?

nikonon WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN

This is good, however I noticed DigitalOcean's IP blocks are banned by a few sites.

nikonon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2020)

SEEKING WORK | TORONTO, CANADA | REMOTE OK

  Location: Toronto, Canada

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Yes

  Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

  Résumé/CV: Email

  Email: sean@webloft.io

  Github: https://github.com/sjdweb

--

I'm relocating to Toronto, Canada in March and actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities. I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Would love to build out my network and discuss projects for 2020.

nikonon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)

  Location: Toronto, Canada

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

  Résumé/CV: Email

  Email: sean@drumm.ca

  Github: https://github.com/sjdweb

--

I'm relocating to Toronto, Canada in March and actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities. I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Would love to build out my network and discuss projects for 2020.

nikonon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

Location: Toronto, Canada from March 19, 2020

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Recent Kubernetes, Go (golang), Typescript (Node), Kafka, Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch.

Github: github.com/sjdweb

Email: sean@sjdev.co.uk

I'm relocating to Toronto, Canada in March (with open wp) and actively seeking local or remote contract opportunities. I'm a seasoned senior developer with team lead experience. I mainly work with distributed backend Node or Go systems, and also have strong DevOps experience. Please reach out if you have something in mind. Thanks!

nikonon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

> • Three on-site technical interviews

Are these 3 separate interviews, or all in one day?

nikonon Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America

Share Now (DriveNow) also leaving UK market.

https://www.drive-now.com/gb/en/now/important-update

nikonon AMD Q4:16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Threadripper Up To 32-Core 3970X

This is what you want: https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/

I have the Intel version (running Hackintosh). It's very fast and quiet. Only downside is no Thunderbolt.

nikonon Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio

Like the remote development addons, this is completely proprietary and designed to push people to Azure.