I wrote up my journey moving from Heroku, and friends/family "please host my website" requests to Cloudflare: first for static sites, then CRON jobs, and eventually full JS APIs.
Post isn't sponsored at all, but 1) I found CF surprisingly useful as a solo dev/founder and 2) I haven't written on my tech blog in a while, and 3) I still don't understand why people still use "serverless" that can skyrocket in price, when the same product is available for cheaper.
Obviously, there are still things Cloudflare won't solve for me, maybe it's not a right fit for everyone, so I'm curious how others are keeping their hosting costs sane, share your stories!
I often move small parts of my Rails app to NodeJS (like file uploads) and it's often been a pain to properly authenticate users. To that end, I built libraries for that in NodeJS and Rust, but testing them was often only on the latest Rails I was using.
To fix that, I built this project: leverage Docker to set up multiple Rails versions, and generate cookies.
And dedicated cars is a disappointing solution. Unfortunately, having any witness call out the perpetrator and let the crowd break the perps fingers is not a very suitable solution, either.
A more obvious step is to limit the occupancy of a car. I've been smashed into the crowded cars. It's a bad idea for more reasons than this. But if you cut the occupancy to 1/3, you have to run 3x as many cars. Maybe start by charging 2x for rush hour or otherwise peak times to pay for 2x the trains. Of course, there is a limit to the number of cars you can put on a track. But if it takes more money to build more capacity, raise prices.
It's not a problem easily solved with a single paragraph on HN. "Dedicated cars for women" takes a lot less thought and accomplishes much. It just doesn't address the real social problem.
This is exactly what I needed, all other solutions I've been exploring so far have either been a pain to set up or a pain to use for my users. Price seems good for what's being sold too, it's ridiculous how some competitors ask for twice that amount but cannot even do basic UX!!
Pannenkoek2012 is both genius and crazy awesome at the same time. Its video "0.5x A Key Presses" provoked a riot in video game circles some times ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
Hi Josh,
Yep, there is MQTT that could fit the job too.
But for the purpose we wanted a much more accessible approach, and an easier learning curve (you just need a websocket chrome extension to start playing with it).
Anyway ROS and rotonde don't really fit the same role, and you could totally imagine packaging a ROS app in a docker container, and have it communicate with the rest of the system through rotonde's websocket.
I wrote up my journey moving from Heroku, and friends/family "please host my website" requests to Cloudflare: first for static sites, then CRON jobs, and eventually full JS APIs.
Post isn't sponsored at all, but 1) I found CF surprisingly useful as a solo dev/founder and 2) I haven't written on my tech blog in a while, and 3) I still don't understand why people still use "serverless" that can skyrocket in price, when the same product is available for cheaper.
Obviously, there are still things Cloudflare won't solve for me, maybe it's not a right fit for everyone, so I'm curious how others are keeping their hosting costs sane, share your stories!