Best of Cloud — April 2024
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DEV·2y
We got 500 GitHub stars! 🤯 What's next?
Replexica is an AI-powered i18n engine for React that consists of a compiler and a cloud engine for translations. It aims to make internationalization easier and more efficient. The project has garnered 500 stars on GitHub and is planning to add support for more languages and develop the Next.js Pages Router.
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Hacker News·2y
plandex-ai/plandex: An AI coding engine for complex tasks
Plandex is an open source AI coding engine for complex tasks. It supports multiple platforms, allows efficient context management, and provides features like version control and branching. Plandex Cloud is free for now and offers additional features. The tool relies on the OpenAI API.
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Community Picks·2y
12 Factor: 13 years later
The 12 factor methodology, initiated by Heroku 13 years ago, still holds up for modern cloud-native applications. It covers topics such as codebase, dependencies, configuration, backing services, build-release-run stages, stateless processes, port binding, concurrency, disposability, dev/prod parity, logs, and admin processes. Additionally, forward and backward compatibility is important for smooth application deployments.
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Stop going to the cloud and getting scammed. $200 infra to serve your startup till 100k monthly users in 15 minutes. Self-hosted Postgres, caddyserver and docker-compose FTW.
This post discusses the drawbacks of relying on the cloud for startup infrastructure and suggests using self-hosted solutions like Postgres, caddyserver, and docker-compose. It provides a step-by-step guide on setting up a self-hosted Postgres instance and demonstrates how to achieve scalability and load balancing using docker-compose. The post also explains how to use Caddyserver as a reverse proxy for automatic SSL management. The setup allows startups to serve up to 100k monthly users at a cost of $200 per month.
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freeCodeCamp·2y
Learn how to deploy to Digital Ocean
Learn how to deploy web apps to Digital Ocean with a comprehensive guide that covers setting up and managing Droplets, configuring networking features, and securing instances. The course also teaches the use of technologies like Nginx, Supervisor, Git, Gunicorn, Postgresql, and more.
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Appwrite·2y
Announcing Appwrite’s Startups program
Appwrite has launched the Startups program, designed to support startups by providing a solid backend platform, reducing risks, and offering reassurance to engineering teams. The program includes benefits such as Appwrite Pro subscription, cloud credits, priority support, access to program managers, and the power of open source community. To join the program, startups must be VC-backed or have a $500k ARR.
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Seytonic·2y
This AI Tool can Auto-Hack Websites (kinda)
Researchers have developed an AI tool that can autonomously hack into websites using vulnerabilities. The tool achieved a high success rate, but there are complicating factors such as cost and limited vulnerabilities. In other news, a hacked North Korean server reveals their involvement in animation work, and ring security cameras were exploited by employees to spy on customers. The Federal Trade Commission has ordered ring to pay $5.6 million in compensation to affected customers.
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Begin — The cloud platform for Functional Web Apps
Begin is a cloud platform that allows users to build resilient, fast, and simple web apps. It offers simplified AWS deployment, open source tools, and a powerful declarative deployment system. It also provides an alternative AWS client called aws-lite.
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A How to Start a Career in Site Reliability Engineering – SRE Career Guide
This post provides a guide on how to start a career in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including information on the role and responsibilities of an SRE, prerequisites and fundamental knowledge needed, essential skills for SRE, learning path and resources, and tips on how to succeed in the SRE field.
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How we’ve saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database
The author explains how they saved 98% in cloud costs by writing their own database. They highlight the challenges of using existing databases for their specific use case and describe the features and trade-offs of their custom solution.
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How we’ve saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database
A company saved 98% in cloud costs by building their own purpose-built storage engine for geospatial data. They needed high write performance, unlimited parallelism, and small disk size. They accepted trade-offs in read performance and consistency guarantees.
