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metaverse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

SMRT Systems | FullStack or Backend Engineer | Hybrid | Full-time | Malmö, Sweden

We create software and hardware solutions for the dry cleaning and textile industry. This includes a cloud-based Point of Sale, mobile apps and machines for automated logistics.

Our customers range from small single store dry cleaners, to larger operations servicing a multitude of consumers or a number of hospitals and hotels. Known as the innovators in this industry, join us in our mission to create the digital dry-cleaning experience of the future.

We are profitable and experiencing significant organic growth, without external capital.

Company website: https://smrtsystems.com

You can email me directly: johan {@} [our domain above]

metaverse | 9 years ago | on: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

Seems then that ELB has a local cache because http requests were reaching my app servers throughout the outage.

metaverse | 9 years ago | on: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

While my app isn't resolved using DYN, we are relying on APIs on our EC2 backend that use their DNS. Is there a Linux DNS caching server that will serve from a local cache primarily, and do lookups in the background instead to update the local cache? During the period DYN was down, it would've continued severing from the local cache and retried the background lookups, keeping my app up. I can also see it improving performance as my servers currently do lookups to the EC2 DNS on each http request...

metaverse | 10 years ago | on: Uber Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter

Yes, although we have a release of 2.0 coming up, and the PouchDB project is really active. The problems couch can solve (e.g data safety and offline capability) probably aren't considered when initially building a product. Also moving from SQL to CouchDB is quite tedious, although my company just went through that process :)

metaverse | 10 years ago | on: Uber Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter

I wonder why they didn't use something like CouchDB for this purpose and instead engineered their own solution? I see the CouchDB replication protocol + conflict detection perfect for their usecase.

metaverse | 10 years ago | on: Integrating React with Meteor

Thanks, I had no idea React was building this out. So in node, you can use the pouchdb API to connect to a full couchdb, allowing you to use the exact same code on the frontend and backend. Going to try this on my next project!

metaverse | 10 years ago | on: Integrating React with Meteor

Thanks for your thorough response! I've been following meteor, and there's so much convenience. And it looks like, with GroundDB you can take meteor apps fully offline.

However, PouchDB have been making some serious progress to support complex offline apps with a lot of data, like full support for secondary map/reduce indexes.

metaverse | 10 years ago | on: Integrating React with Meteor

What advantages does a meteor+react setup have vs pouchdb+react (synced to couch in backend)? I would think, with meteor you get the backend rendering (for SEO), and with pouch you get a DB API on the fronted that's available offline.

metaverse | 11 years ago | on: Accepting payments is getting harder

We went through a SAQ D Service Provider 3.0, and paying for an ASV didn't hurt nearly as much as filling out that 80 page questionnaire... In fact, it reminded us apply some recent CVE's to our system before taking it to production. We used Comodo HackerGuardian which is $250/y, so you don't have to pay $1000s.

metaverse | 13 years ago | on: Western Union May Offer Digital Currency Services Similar to Bitcoin

It's not. I emailed the author and she confirmed it's real.

metaverse | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?

Or just raise more money hoping that the price of a bitcoin will stabilize in the near future. Their current system is very convenient for users.

metaverse | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?

It's possible that they've been undercharging for their service, and as a result have simply run out of cash. With the recent price growth, their buy price sometimes fails to catch up with the current exchanges rates, resulting in losses for them that their fee of 1% does not cover for.

My friends trying Coinbase have raised concerns about the long delays as well, and I have a bitcoin transfer to my personal wallet that's been pending for multiple days. This needs to be resolved quickly to keep Coinbase and Bitcoins reputation.