beck5
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
I have recently spent a fair bit of time experimenting with this on Fly for my application (https://www.ssrfproxy.com). It's hard to beat the straightforwardness of deploying in a single region, with the database in close proximity. This approach probably to meets the needs of what 99% of developers require. Aka Heroku.
If anyone has thoughts about this space, feature requests, would like a preview of what we are building, or anything else, please do reach out direcly to me at [email protected], I'm talking to as many people as possible at the moment.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: node.js, react, typescript, terraform, redis, k8, elixir, mongo, Postgres, docker. GCP/AWS, hashicorp stack, Linux, Nginx, haproxy, bash etc
Résumé/CV: Former founder of ShareLaTaX, successful exit from bootstrapping it. Now on First job hunt in 10+ years. Lots of experience in ops/dev ops, fast real time collaboration with big scale. Full stack developer at heart, with lots ops experience in recent years managing large scale cloud migrations and infrastructure. 12+ year’s experience.
Email: [email protected]
Simple, readable task runner. It has replaced make and rake in a lot of use cases.
It feels like it could do with a bit of over the shoulder user testing.
After a while the game does get canceled which may be the root cause of the issue?
With the previous model a lot of the risk was on the private company, if times were good profits were there, in bad times they made losses. Now with the new model the risk has gone over to the UK government, for better or worse.
The new setup should guarantee a low level of profitability for private companies, with a theoretical lower max, what will be interesting is to see how many companies actually bid.
The private companies actually own very little when running a franchise, most things are leased, such as rolling stock which is largely owned by German funds if memory serves. Investments into stations/parking/ticketing etc is left in place for the next person to take the keys.
I don't think it was a failure of private companies though, rather Network Rail failing to deliver. The government has speced electrification for decades like you say. The cost of eletricifcation has gone through the roof, mainly due to health and safety (good thing). We have also lost a lot of expertise in electrification, much like how we lost the skill to tunnel.