Best of Startup — February 2024

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   The Startup·2y

   Do What’s Hard So Life Becomes Easy

   Learn about the power of mental constructs in achieving goals and optimal performance. Discover the beginning, messy, and easy pattern that applies to every new task or goal. Embrace the idea that hard work leads to success.

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   Bootcamp·2y

   Case study: Skincare application

   Discover an advanced AI skincare app that provides personalized product recommendations based on individual's unique skin types and concerns. The app aims to solve common skincare pain points by offering AI scans, personalized recommendations, dermatologist consultations, and more.

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   Bootcamp·2y

   SafetyNet : A case study on how I designed a personal safety application that helps users keep themselves safe.

   Case study on the design of a personal safety application called SafetyNet that addresses the growing concern of personal safety.

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   Medium·2y

   Lessons From Our 8 Years Of Kubernetes In Production — Two Major Cluster Crashes, Ditching Self-Managed, Cutting Cluster Costs, Tooling, And More

   Lessons learned from running Kubernetes in production for 8 years include the complexity of Kubernetes, the importance of managing Kubernetes certificates, keeping Kubernetes and Helm up to date, maintaining centralized Helm charts, disaster recovery planning, backing up secrets, considering vendor-agnostic vs "going all in" approaches, and optimizing node types and cost with reserved instances. Observability through monitoring, alerting, and logging is crucial, and security measures like access control and container vulnerability scanning are necessary. The company experienced two major cluster crashes due to certificate expirations. Migrating from self-managed on AWS to managed on Azure (AKS) improved ease of use, integrated Azure services, and reduced costs. Overall, Kubernetes has been a game-changer for the company, providing scalability, cost optimization, improved developer experiences, and faster time-to-market for new products and services.

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   Substack·2y

   12-Month MBA for Product Managers (better than any $127K course, book list)

   A 12-month MBA program for Product Managers is provided, consisting of books, related videos, and free resources.

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   Medium·2y

   Introduction to Loco: the “Rust on Rails”

   Loco is a web or API framework for Rust, inspired by Rails. It offers a safe, robust software development experience and provides everything that Rails has, including data access, controllers, views, background jobs, websockets, and more. Rust is the perfect language for Loco, offering developer happiness and zero-effort performance. Loco is designed to be simple, lightweight, and efficient, with the ability to turn off any parts of the framework that are not needed. It supports rapid development, deployment, and includes built-in SaaS authentication.

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   LogRocket·2y

   34 UX GPTs you can use today

   Discover 34 UX GPTs that can enhance your design workflow. These GPTs cover various areas such as design thinking, UX research, and UX writing, providing assistance and expert insights. Leverage the power of AI to improve your user experience!

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   Hacker News·2y

   Requests for Startups

   Requests for Startups: Y Combinator discusses various ideas and categories for startups to work on, including robotics, ML-based simulations, defense tech, US manufacturing, space companies, climate tech, open source, AR/VR, software for businesses, AI interpretability, manual process automation, and healthcare inefficiencies.

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