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New comment by ndemoor in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

ndemoor — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:08:59 +0000

Here is also a non-exhaustive list of websites using cloudflare: https://index.woorank.com/en/reviews?technology=cloudflare

New comment by ndemoor in "Putting a UI around Docker with Portainer"

ndemoor — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:00:40 +0000

I don't understand how this could be flagged as a dupe. I agree both articles cover Portainer.

But one goes deep into how to set it up with deep integration on Docker Machine and DigitalOcean on a more expert level.

While the other provides a very simple beginner level Play with Docker setup and then goes on how to install an entire application stack, with frontends, databases and workers.

New comment by ndemoor in "Putting a UI around Docker with Portainer"

ndemoor — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:18:13 +0000

Yeah, the gist of the article was just to show some of the capabilities. In essence, Portainer is just a wrapper around the Docker API. So I wouldn't use it as a management tool, much rather as a quick and dirty checkup tool.

New comment by ndemoor in "Putting a UI around Docker with Portainer"

ndemoor — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:14:19 +0000

The only other term I could come up with was 'label' or 'tag' but that sounds so boring. ;)

Putting a UI around Docker with Portainer

ndemoor — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:38:28 +0000

Article URL: https://cntnr.io/putting-a-ui-around-docker-with-portainer-c8ba07874f9d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13355602

Points: 56

# Comments: 16

Bootstrapping Your Startup: Do You Really Need Early Investment?

ndemoor — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:45:27 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.woorank.com/2014/01/bootstrapping-woorank/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7049529

Points: 50

# Comments: 50

Ask HN: What tool do you use to manage your app's assets/images?

ndemoor — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:59:59 +0000

An app, whether a SaaS or mobile app, needs many images of different sizes for all different platforms: - the iOS App and Google Play stores (icons in sizes X/X'/X''/..., screenshots, ...) - your app's Facebook page (icon in size Y, cover, ...) - its Twitter account (icon in size Z, cover) - ad campaigns - ...

What tool(s) do you use to manage (upload/resize/edit/version) them?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6926928

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Improving Client Communication: Own the Problem with a Smile

ndemoor — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:07:46 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.woorank.com/2013/12/ways-improve-customer-care/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6836160

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Phoenix Servers with Packer

ndemoor — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:01:48 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.woorank.com/2013/10/phoenix-servers-packerio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612012

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Privacy monitor hacked from an old LCD Monitor

ndemoor — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:49:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.instructables.com/id/Privacy-monitor-made-from-an-old-LCD-Monitor/?ALLSTEPS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4929911

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by ndemoor in "Don't read TechCrunch"

ndemoor — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:57:15 +0000

I only read TC when their linkbait titles end up on the frontpage of HN.

Stopped following their feed, once I came to the same conclusion as the OP: being overly funded is (almost) the only way to go get featured on TC, these days. The times of roaming the edges of startup-land and posting about the nitty gritty startup struggles are long forgotten.

Guidance for Resilient Cloud Architectures

ndemoor — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:10:57 +0000

Article URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj853352.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4850293

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ndemoor in "Poll: What databases does your company use?"

ndemoor — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:23:13 +0000

There are 2 options which I use(d) when developing/deploying DynamoDB: - Have a separate (sub)account for dev/test/... in which you create your tables. Since one of the latest changes to their policy you are now able to configure the lowest read/write capacity possible: 1/1 - Join everything under one account but prefix your tables with dev_, test_, prod_*

I prefer the former as it enables me to have the dev/test env as similar as possible to the prod environment: same naming, and both env's are separated, when one gets compromised at least the other one doesn't suffer. Security rules are also easier as you don't have to create per-table rules, when you want to lock out some team-members from production tables, but not dev/test tables.

Entrepreneurshit

ndemoor — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:00:56 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/11/18/entrepreneurshit-the-blog-post-on-what-its-really-like/?awesm=bothsid.es_i2G&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=awesm-publisher&utm_medium=bothsid.es-twitter&utm_campaign=

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4800776

Points: 381

# Comments: 68

New comment by ndemoor in " My popular Twitter Analytics app has reached technical limits. Need help"

ndemoor — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:38:33 +0000

Digging further in 3), if your app is proven to be in the 'good' quadrant, have you ever considered contacting Twitter directly and requesting a higher API limit rate.

I can imagine they are ok with that if your app provides value to their ecosystem.

New comment by ndemoor in "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) "

ndemoor — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:36:53 +0000

Brussels, Belgium (I know, chances are low ;)) - Woorank.com - Frontend dev/iOS dev

We are looking for people: * loving to put 100's or 1000's of datapoints into nice and shiny dashboards

* have expertise with PHP/Node/MongoDB/Redis

* familiar with versioning svn/git/mercurial

* eager to question everyone and everything if he or she thinks something can be done better/different and enhance the experience

Feel free to contact me at nils@woorank.com with your github profile/portfolio/blog

New comment by ndemoor in "Ask HN: How did you hack the press when you launched your startup(s)?"

ndemoor — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:56:14 +0000

Couldn't have said it any better. Being TC'ed is cool to put on your websites homepage (I know, we did ;)), but appart from having a huge spike in your Google Analytics dashboard, the direct results/conversions are minimal(especially for B2B products).

On the other end, it might get you a little extra cred to prove your rising traction.

Better to go for more specialized blogs, they are better for overall conversion.

New comment by ndemoor in "Recurly billing down -- some customer data lost"

ndemoor — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:28:27 +0000

As a current customer of Recurly, I am very dissapointed in the way they communicate. I know it's all hands on deck now to fix this problem, but putting communication aside is not the way to go.

For us this is also a very stressful situation, because if the worst case scenario becomes a reality...

"Some customers will be required to reach out to (some or all) of their customers to have them re-enter billing information."

... we can spend days contacting clients to get the payment credit card (which in some cases they should go to their boss for), and go through the billing process again, only to hope to get the list as near to a 100% recovered as possible.

Time for Billing Provider Redundancy?

New comment by ndemoor in "SQL vs. NoSQL"

ndemoor — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:37:16 +0000

S3 is also used as intermediary data storage when running Elastic MapReduce queries over data in your DynamoDB tables.

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/aws-howto-using-amazon-el...

New comment by ndemoor in "Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month"

ndemoor — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:18:49 +0000

Well, the downside of using multiple DB stores is that the logic of keeping everything consistent is in the hands of the developer. So you have to make sure that everything is written correctly.

For instance, if you write to MySQL and Mongo, but your Mongo is down, you'll either have to queue the data item somewhere for a write once the system is back up, or you have a migration system in place that gets everything from MySQL since the downtime and writes it back to Mongo.

Depending on the type of data we have a few easing factors: for some data stores it is not that big of a deal if it doesn't get written to it's 2nd layer (eg. cache) as we can rewrite it the next time it is requested in layer 1.