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Comment · 2 years ago
I am very comfortable with algorithmic and system design questions. However, what I am struggling with is articulating past experiences. Throughout my last 5 years at my previous employer, I didn't jot down in my personal notes any accomplishments or technical designs. And my memory is so rusty now that I have a hard time reciting them. I understand this is squarely my fault. Wondering if you have any advice on approaching my next job? (senior / manager role)
Comment · 3 years ago
that is a lot cheaper than Vercel in term of store image but egress seems expensive since they charge per cache image served as well. Do you know if Cloudinary is a better option?
Comment · 3 years ago
Does CloudFlare have an on-demand image optimization like Vercel? I love that I can specify <Image src="original_image.jpeg width="500px" /> and Vercel just took care of it for me. I am looking for something cheaper and works on native mobile apps as well.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am on the first leg of your journey. Quit my extremely high paying FAANG job to co-found a startup as a CTO. We raised a crazy amount of money for seed. I am just so burnt out (and genuinely feel I am not qualified for the job). I want to swallow my pride and call it quit despite the company is doing ok with a lot of cash left in the bank.

But two things keep me going (in an unhealthy way): 1. My ego and embarrassment 2. credibility with the investor network we built up. It's not sustainable for my mental health but I frankly don't know what my next steps are yet.

All I can say is best of luck to you. I would love to hear how you bounce back from the VC-funded burn to bootsrap another one.

Comment · 3 years ago
love PlanetScale product. Do you recommend any similar offering for PostgresSQL?
Comment · 3 years ago
it's amazing you built a complex marketplace/commerce site all from scratch. big kudos! if you ever do a paid course on your development, I am more than happy to pay!
Comment · 3 years ago
wow this is great job! Congrats. Curious if you can share your tech stack for this? Did you use any headless commerce to speed up development?
Comment · 3 years ago
for someone new to real time apps, can you help me understand how JamSocket is different from some service like Pusher?
Comment · 3 years ago
I am wondering if simply switching to AWS Aurora is an option here?
Comment · 3 years ago
ah i meant to ask how it was designed in the backend
Comment · 3 years ago
wow this looks amazing. Do you mind shedding some light on how you built this? especially how you organize taxonomy and product metadata for each category

I am working on an e-commerce platform that would benefits a lot from your experience here

Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for the amazing work. Do you know if you can relax python requirements to 3.10? Right now I can only use it up to 0.5.7

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