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The easy way and the hard way(typefully.com)
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by davidkell 4y ago
Agreed and well put. Lack of a decent Rails/Django option for JS/TS is part of the issue IMO, since that ecosystem is so popular atm. I also wonder if you have to get burned a few times rolling your own and that's just part o
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by davidkell 4y ago
For junior developers reading this: frameworks are great, learn to love them, they will save you much time and stress when shipping real products.
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by davidkell 4y ago
If you like Python, I can recommend this: - Start with SaaS Pegasus https://www.saaspegasus.com/ - Deploy to Heroku - Get comfortable with "X-in-HTML" frameworks - Tailwind, HTMX, Alpine - Deliver your mob
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by davidkell 4y ago
Happy SaaS Pegasus customer here! Reasons to love it: - Cory’s writing on low JS alternatives to single page web apps was game changing for us. And that’s all built in. 10x faster to develop. - You get access to a wonderful community of Dja
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by davidkell 5y ago
Thanks folks, much needed! Where is the list of destinations today?
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by davidkell 5y ago
Many of your integrations talk about “syncing” rather than event collection, which to me sounds like what Fivetran is doing. Does that distinction make sense and how are you thinking about that?
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by davidkell 5y ago
+1 for SaaS Pegasus. In particular, Cory has done a wonderful job in introducing a more pragmatic approach to Javascript with Django [0]. Plus he's built a strong Slack community and is always around to support and listen to any feedba
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by davidkell 5y ago
+1 For this recommendation, an exceptional book. In particular chapters 2-3 demystify how databases work, and provides an intuition on when to use different kinds of databases and query languages without the typical hype (spoiler alert - us
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by davidkell 5y ago
OK, that's an interesting POV. To be honest, I was surprised that you advocated writing so many tests for each view, easily 10-20 per view. Part of the beauty of Django's various class based interfaces is that you can be confident
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by davidkell 5y ago
We recently started working with "traditional" Django + Hotwire + React wrapped into web components for interactivity. We've previously tried React+Hasura/Postgraphile and React+DRF/GraphQL, but this is next level p
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by davidkell 5y ago
As the sibling comment says, while I disagree with specifics this article is full of gems. @Alex3917 What do you think of using Django-rendered templates for views that don't require significant frontend interactivity? You seem to advo
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by davidkell 5y ago
Has anyone found a frontend JS framework + backend combination with the developer ergonomics of say Rails, Django or Phoenix? Would love to hear.
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by davidkell 6y ago
Any Snowflake developers reading this - the current snowflake-connector-python is pinned to 0.17, almost 1 year out of date now. Would be great to get that bumped to a more recent version :-)
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by davidkell 6y ago
Fivetran has built all the custom OAuth flows for their 150 custom integrations and you can build it into your own (internal or external) applications, it is neat. @goergewfraser When do you plan to add the ability to configure connectors t
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by davidkell 6y ago
Do you plan to support one-click integrations? (= Stitch Connect JS [0] / Fivetran "Connect Card" [1]) [0] https://www.stitchdata.com/docs/developers/stitch-connect/ja... [1] https:/&#x2F
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by davidkell 6y ago
For Postgres https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/#/
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by davidkell 6y ago
You can do the same thing with the jupytext extension. But sometimes it is helpful to have the rendered results in version control, eg internally we use it to discuss data science findings on Gitlab.
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by davidkell 6y ago
IMO no one has done more to make deep learning accessible than Jeremy + fast.ai team. Thanks for the amazing work! My question is about the coding style - @jph00 I’ve read your fast.ai style guide and worked with APLs like q/KDB (writt
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by davidkell 6y ago
Thanks, appreciate the response.
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by davidkell 6y ago
Top of my wish list would be a python <-> VSCode experience at the typescript level of quality. Interesting that mypy is a Dropbox (GvR’s previous gig) whereas Microsoft has a competitor python type checker, pyright [0]. Anyone have e
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by davidkell 6y ago
What's the secret of the performance? Especially interested to see that it is written in Go.
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by davidkell 6y ago
How is Hobbes support for relational workloads? My favourite feature of KDB is mixing SQL-like queries with list manipulations. I see support for tables in the Hobbes docs [0], but an array of tuples is row-oriented whereas KDB is column-or
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by davidkell 6y ago
The architecture you've proposed here has many overlaps with q/KDB (or Jd, Shakti), which does not (AFAIK) have a decent open source alternative. Looking forward to see what you build!
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by davidkell 6y ago
Thanks for sharing graphique, that is very neat.
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by davidkell 6y ago
How do you feel about using SQL for everything, eg using Postgres policies for RBAC, or PL/pgSQL to generate passwords? In principle, I love the idea of Postgraphile but this is what turned us off.
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by davidkell 6y ago
The reactive programming model (or whatever you call it, honestly don’t know) is at the core of so many great tools and products - eg Terraform/Pulumi, Kubernetes, React, Mobx, Observable... At the same time, we’ve struggled to find de
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by davidkell 6y ago
In my experience, GraphQL enables smaller, less experienced teams to build complex web apps faster. (As long as you use decent frameworks and tooling.) There are definite downsides versus eg REST (notably performance, which becomes harder t
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by davidkell 6y ago
The two places I’ve seen this working best today: - Open source data science/scientific computing ecosystems. Notably python, where all the libraries interop seamlessly via numpy/pandas/arrow and Jupyter is the visual coding
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by davidkell 6y ago
I’m not familiar with those solutions in particular. For type safety, many backend frameworks generate OpenAPI specs automatically, and you can generate Typescript stubs based on this. Ditto for gRPC and gRPC web. We use these. But I’ve not

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