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Deploy app servers close to your users. Package your app as a Docker image, and launch it in 17 cities with one simple CLI.

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Deploy app servers close to your users. Package your app as a Docker image, and launch it in 17 cities with one simple CLI.

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> We need to stop demonizing restrictionless development. I'm not! I love permissive OSS licenses, I think they're great until they get abused. What I'm demonizing is overly…

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Observed mentions: 2018-04-04 21:44:33 UTC to 2019-03-17 21:19:14 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Apr 2018	2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
May 2018	2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2018	2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2018	2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2018	2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2018	2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2018	2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	0	4
Nov 2018	2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Dec 2018	2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2019	2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2019	2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	1	3

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mrkurt·Oct 16, 2018Recommendation phrase

> We need to stop demonizing restrictionless development. I'm not! I love permissive OSS licenses, I think they're great until they get abused. What I'm demonizing is overly powerful megacorps owning an unreasonable amount of the available "tech" revenue. This license from MongoDB is an unfortunate side effect of that. I don't think anyone there wanted a weirdly restrictive license, but I do think they want to build a healthy business on top of their work. And that's something I want them to be able to do as well. There's a big, big difference between companies in an oligopoly position and normal companies. Permissive OSS grew up in a world that wasn't a weird oligopoly for good reasons, but a lot has changed in the last 10 years and it's downright dangerous to license things permissively and try to build a business at the same time. Exam

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ple: we built an Edge Runtime, it's under a permissive license, if we're successful I expect we'll run into the same problem DB companies have and then have to navigate around that: https://github.com/superfly/fly

In MongoDB switches up its open source license

mrkurt·Oct 3, 2018

fly.io | Full-Time | Remote Only | TypeScript Developer Fly is an open source platform for building CDNs and other “edge applications”. You might like working here if you're interested in internet infrastructure, care about low level JavaScript runtimes, and think you'd enjoy writing TypeScript or JavaScript full time. We're a small team of 6 with real revenue. We help companies build fast applications, and tell our families we're in an epic battle against the speed of light (it's true!). We're hiring a full time developer with salary + benefits to build edge applications for customers and improve our open source software. To apply: have a look at https://github.com/superfly/fly, then send an email to jobs@fly.io and tell us something you'd improve. We'll tell you about the sample project and schedule a video all to answer any questions y

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ou have. We promise we'll reply to you. We'll give you honest and direct answers regardless of your skill level. Applying for jobs sucks, we try to make it suck a little less.

In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

devwastaken·Oct 2, 2018

I only found mention of v8-isolate when searching for it specifically. Coming up in only https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-performance-compariso... and a few comments on HN. I don't see any description of its use other than a summary of 'we use v8 isolates', which begs a /r/restofthefuckingowl. Even an interview with KV doesn't reveal much. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018... Isolate also doesn't do anything for sandboxing from what I can tell. Cloudflare quotes 'That said, we have added additional layers of our own sandboxing on top of V8.' I do not see any actual technical information on how they're using v8. v8 and by extension isolated-vm by itself does not cover things like fetch if we're talking JS. https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm/issues/63 This is an immediete killer as js browser features

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are part of why a js engine is wanted. Having node handling these things is a time bomb of debugging where instead of debugging v8 you're debugging node. There are node version problems with stability as mentioned on the isolate-vm readme. DOS goes beyond just CPU time and memory. Wasm is being treated as an environment of its own with some lower level accessibility. Unless the API allows feature whitelisting - I can't find any docs relating to that - then I don't see anything stopping thread creation. I'd be interested to know how cloudflare prevents these features. isolate-vm doesn't appear to interact with the v8 api with options relating to this. Fly.io has their fly engine meant for local development so you can deploy onto their servers. https://github.com/superfly/fly

In You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers

mrkurt·Oct 1, 2018

fly.io | Full-Time | Remote Only | TypeScript Developer Fly is an open source platform for building CDNs and other “edge applications”. You might like working here if you're interested in internet infrastructure, care about low level JavaScript runtimes, and think you'd enjoy writing TypeScript / JavaScript full time. We're a small team of 6 with real revenue. We help companies build fast applications, and tell our families we're in an epic battle against the speed of light (it's true!). We're hiring a full time developer with salary + benefits to build edge applications for customers and improve our open source software. To apply: have a look at https://github.com/superfly/fly, then send an email to jobs@fly.io and tell us something you'd improve. We'll tell you about the sample project and schedule a video all to answer any questions yo

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u have. We promise we'll reply to you. We'll give you honest and direct answers regardless of your skill level. Applying for jobs sucks, we try to make it suck a little less.

In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)