Only incident we needed AWS support we had an engineer on call with us for several hours (including a shift change for them). Might’ve been a one-off but has seemed like their support is pretty phenomenal (also talked with someone who worked there and they thought it was good).

100% this. I have used support multiple times, there were times when calls took more than 12 hours. We used basic and Whenever I needed support I turned on to "Business" - from memory it costed 100 bucks a month.

If you pay for enterprise support they will absolutely stay on a call with you during a production outage. Best support I've seen from any of the vendors I've used.

Yeah I thought they were going to show something cool like multi-tenant architecture. Odd to write this article when it was clear they expected to be impacted as they were reaching out to customers.

I think you're missing the point. What I took away was that: "Because we design for zero dependencies for full operation, we didn't go down". Their extra features like tiered storage and monitoring going down didn't affect normal operations, which it seems like it did for similar solutions with similar features.

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’m interested in your response to your own question if you’re up for sharing.

My uninformed opinion if you want it: No, it’s not normal for someone to speak to an attorney before traveling. That question is a tad rigged though since I do find it normal to talk to an attorney if you’re doing something abnormal[0] to a legal document, especially to a legal document used to (ideally) rigorously confirm your identity.

[0] uncommon is likely a better choice of words, but I hope the added indirection isn’t necessary in this format of discussion

Is 42 participants statically significant?

How does something like this function under the hood? Is it not expensive/risky to let anyone run requests on your dime?

OpenAI nowadays is a prepaid model by default - if you are able to kiss $50 goodbye without much thought, and perhaps use some basic Cloudflare logic to reject automated systems and rate limit, there's really no danger.

Sums it up nicely. Right now $20 a day doesn't sound that bad and some of the DDoS traffic experienced this afternoon has been walled off. It's fine to lose some money if people are interested in the idea

Fun read, smug but I enjoy some opinion and life in my reading.

I don’t think people producing games being hobbyists rather than business people is quite the negative I feel this post presents it to be.

They are businesses and the companies he calls incompetent did in fact delivered multiple games in not small numbers so far.

How did you make that transition/find a position? Were you already using Rust in a previous role?

Here’s my own take [1] when I was on the hunt for a good HTTP client a month or so ago.

[1]: https://royathan.com/blog/the-api-client-hunt/

Thanks for putting this article together. It was exactly what I was needing to decide on which HTTP client to pick.

Btw, you could think of adding a way to let your users interact with your blog. I tried search for a comment box or upvote/thumbs-up so I could send my thanks for your efforts on writing it, but could not find it, so I resorted to HN comments.

Anyway, it's appreciated!

Hah, and you chose Yaak!

So awesome. I love the pricing model, I’ve seen it before for MacOS apps where they are free to build yourself, but have a cost for convenience if you want it on the App Store. How is it working for you so far?

They’re nice for exploring a new API before programming around it IMO