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by alien_ 10mo ago
This is the tool I use to generate and prepare for sending the PDF invoices for my freelance work. It takes a bunch of JSON files that define info about my clients, as well as my own business details. It then uses some of those JSON files
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Show HN: CLI that generates and prepares to email PDF invoices(github.com)
2 points by alien_ 10mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Identifiy test coverage gaps in your Go projects(github.com)
11 points by alien_ 10mo ago|2 comments
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by alien_ 1y ago
Sorry about this, I hadn't noticed. Unfortunately Beehiv added their tracking query strings which will break the site because of the way we host it from a static content bucket. It's enough if you just delete the beehiiv query str
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by alien_ 1y ago
Thank you for reporting this, I'll have a look ASAP.
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Show HN: Launching cloud-instances.info, a new fork of ec2instances.info(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
3 points by alien_ 1y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: Resolve AWS SecretManager secrets as env vars(github.com)
2 points by alien_ 2y ago|0 comments
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by alien_ 2y ago
This is besides the point, the AutoSpotting and EBS Optimizer tools are not even in the scope of this release, I just mentioned them for a bit of extra context about myself and what I've been building previously. Feel free to criticize
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Releasing my CLI AWS cost saving tools and TF microservice components as ONCE(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
2 points by alien_ 2y ago|3 comments
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by alien_ 2y ago
I'm a solopreneur doing AWS cost optimization tools and services, much like a Pieter Levels in the niche of Corey Quinn. For many years I've been building self-hosted serverless headless AWS cost optimization tools: - AutoSpotting
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Adopting the 37Signals Once Model for LeanerCloud CLI Tools and Terraform Code(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
2 points by alien_ 2y ago|0 comments
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Current OpenTofu contributors vs. pledged FTEs(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
8 points by alien_ 2y ago|2 comments
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by alien_ 2y ago
After the recent layoffs at Google that impacted open source maintainers of some prominent projects, I was curious to see what's the state of other projects where the community had to step up involvement after the initial project cease
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MRR halved for the 3rd time, 2nd time in less than 12 months(old.reddit.com)
2 points by alien_ 2y ago|1 comments
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by alien_ 2y ago
Sharing my rollercoarter ride of monetizing a formerly quite popular AWS cost optimization OSS project I started 8 years ago and venting about my latest MRR drop. Ask me anything!
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by alien_ 3y ago
For sure, I use the AWS APIs to gather the data but there's no single API for all this, I aggregate it from different services and across regions. AWS also has some dashboard in the AWS console similar to this but it doesn't have
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Show HN: OSS tool for estimating future AWS IPv4 costs(github.com)
3 points by alien_ 3y ago|2 comments
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How ECS capacity providers inspired me to fix an ancient AutoSpotting issue(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
2 points by alien_ 3y ago|0 comments
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How we maximized task density on our ECS cluster by avoiding burstable instances(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
1 points by alien_ 3y ago|1 comments
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by alien_ 3y ago
And also why we had to deploy NAT Gateways in our public subnets.
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Show HN: ChatGPT plugin for AWS – WIP/broken but looking for contributors(github.com)
3 points by alien_ 3y ago|1 comments
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by alien_ 3y ago
Thanks for the comment! You're right, it's amazing at that, I've had a similar experience. At small scale you can also do much of that pretty well also with ECS, we use GitHub Actions for driving our deployments using Terrafo
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Why Kubernetes wasn't a good fit for us(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
5 points by alien_ 3y ago|2 comments
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by alien_ 3y ago
The OP here, thanks for the comment! It was definitely not about being contrarian but about offering first and foremost a more cost effective but still relatively simple, scalable and robust alternative to their current setup. They have a s
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by alien_ 3y ago
The OP here. What you say may make sense for a large corporation with hundreds of developers from many teams, all sharing a single cluster, but remember this is a pre-revenue startup with a single dev team of less than a dozen people. But t
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by alien_ 3y ago
The OP here, thanks for the comment! Why does the developer need to care about the certs and ALBs? The devops engineer you need to set up all those controllers could as well deploy those resources from Terraform. As I showed in the diagrams
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by alien_ 3y ago
The OP here, thanks for your comment. To be honest I wasn't hired to challenge their entire setup, only to make it more cost effective. So I chose the most straightforward way I could think of that would allow us to come up with a cost
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Why I recommended ECS instead of Kubernetes to my latest customer(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
88 points by alien_ 3y ago|123 comments
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My thoughts on the state of EC2 Spot pricing and what you can do about it(leanercloud.beehiiv.com)
4 points by alien_ 3y ago|1 comments
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by alien_ 3y ago
This is related to a recent conversation and article on the same topic, but also giving a few solutions for Spot users. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35802157 - https://pauley.me/post/2023&#x2F

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