Managed Kubernetes has lowered the entry barrier, but is it the right choice for an early-stage startup? Explore the trade-offs, costs, and simpler alternatives like PaaS, ECS, and Docker Swarm that might be a better fit.
Explore innovative governance models for online communities that move beyond traditional authoritarian moderation, including contribution-weighted democracy, invite-only systems, and hybrid approaches to balance quality, growth, and fairness.
Discover how Python is used in large-scale production systems beyond ML/AI, including web backends and data engineering, and learn about the trade-offs and best practices for success.
A Hacker News discussion analyzes the pros and cons of a platform that deploys Docker Compose apps to production, covering simplicity, operational challenges, and comparisons to Kubernetes.
Developers share their go-to message queues, discussing trade-offs between Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis Streams, SQS, Postgres, and others. Key themes include operational simplicity, queues vs. streams, and real-world experiences.