bobofettfett

1. Good, all DB data needs to be encrypted 2. That said, the largest security risk is applications (backends) that enable mass access to customer data and allow mass leaks of customer data.

@gaius: You love it in a way that you do projects with them now? That you would choose it over something "better" (Z80,68k assembler?)?

Or do you love the nostalgia, the feeling you had when you were programming your first computer and BBC Basic is a token for that which evokes this feeling?

Because I also have fond memories and a warm glow from ZX Spectrums and Amstrad CPCs. But I do not love Z80 assembler or Locomotive Basic.

You will lose that feeling after 30 years. I have no special place for ZX Spectrum Basic anymore.

From my experience renting more servers with 50% growth is a challenge. A lot of things go wrong when installing a lot of servers each month.

Also from my experience, with 10 instances the money you save with custom servers is negligible and contract and SLA management, multi datacenter etc. is easier with a cloud provider than renting servers. At least where I've rented servers in the past.

My 5cent:

If you have lots and lots of money and a high margin business, do yourself a favor and go with Amazon (much less hassle with contract management and low level challenges).

If you need to scale month to month and are growing 50% per month, go with Amazon.

If you are very small and can live with 10 instances, go with Amazon.

If CAPEX doesn't help you and for whatever reasons you need to spend OPEX, go with Amazon.

If you need many (types of) machines for failover but which otherwise mostly idle, go with Amazon.

Otherwise it's always cheaper to buy or rent hardware. Amazon is very expensive (TCO).

If you base your decision on hype, you're screwed.

* Amazon stands for Cloud Provider, personally I'm choosing Digital Ocean with Mesos/Docker.

* Except S3 which is a no brainer to use.

And it has nothing to do with Periscope.

Every one in tech thought 10years ago there are backdoors everywhere - well there were backdoors everywhere 20 years ago. And everyone thought government agencies use phones for tracking. The public opinion might have been different, but in tech circles this was and is mainstream.

Very long answer.

I have no clue who you are. So my impression is just from your words.

I would not hire you. It seems you had problems with several managers, then call a former employer a 'total moron' on a discussion board and a teamlead 'stupid'. "Losing that job early was better for me" - a lot of the comments is about you.

Two long comments and everyone was wrong but you. To me this signals no introspection and being a finger pointer. Sorry to sound harsh.

Not sure why you started at a company where getting fired is "no great loss" to you. Why did you start there in the first place? How was your due diligence?

When hiring I'm always amazed how little candidates ask real questions about their work, workplace, how people are rated, what 'excellent' means, who there boss is, who there colleagues are, etc.

Could not find in the post why he was fired.

Form my experience, if not being part of a 10% cut 80% of the fired people deserved it and should think hard why.

Also from my experience, most people getting fired for legit reasons have not enough self introspection to see the signs and change, also mostly everyone else sees those in them.

Half-Life 3?

Yes, couldn't read find that in the article beside "monolitic baeh"

As they say: "Your new boy/girlfriend is better because you are better."

When Ruby can't solve your business problems -> wrong choice. If it can solve your business problems -> wrong choice to move to Go.

Ruby is the new Java everyone is bashing. Go is the new Ruby everyone is hyping.

If you replace every mention of Ruby with Java, and every mention of Go with Ruby in the comments on HN, then you've invented a time machine to go back 10 years.

And if you do this with C, welcome to 1995.