ericingram

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by ericingram 5y ago
Swell is a headless, API-first ecommerce platform that many of our users would describe as an a modern alternative to Shopify. I'm the CEO/co-founder at here, and want to give credit to HN community for giving me a lot of encourag
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Show HN: API-first alternative to ReCharge and Shopify in one checkout(swell.is)
13 points by ericingram 5y ago|1 comments
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by ericingram 6y ago
Thanks @tejasmanohar! It's been a great personal journey and now global team effort to get Swell here. For the HN community, what really makes Swell interesting is that it's build on a fully customizable API schema, which enables
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by ericingram 10y ago
You just need to eat less. A lot less than you expect and a lot less than you hear about from traditional diet advice.
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React Storefront(github.com)
2 points by ericingram 10y ago|0 comments
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by ericingram 11y ago
I think we solved the common issues with REST for Schema ( https://schema.io ) in a way that makes it really nice for developing web apps. For example, to include related resources you can specify an `expand` field in a get reques
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by ericingram 11y ago
Glad to hear that! For the time being we recommend using the HTTP endpoint with `requests` for python. The official python client will take some time longer because we haven't seen a very big demand for it vs other priorities. However,
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Show HN: Schema – API to Build and Scale Ecommerce(schema.io)
17 points by ericingram 11y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Schema – API to Build and Scale Ecommerce(schema.io)
3 points by ericingram 11y ago|0 comments
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Tokutek (TokuMX/TokuDB) Acquired by Percona(streetinsider.com)
1 points by ericingram 11y ago|0 comments
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by ericingram 12y ago
We've been using TokuMX for a while and I highly recommend others take a serious look there. It already contains the benefits cited for MongoDB 3 and more. Toku also has a release candidate for the new Mongo storage engine API named To
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by ericingram 12y ago
If numbers are the deciding factor for anyone, have a look at TokuMX which I believe has much better performance and storage characteristics compared to plain Mongo. http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokumx-for-mongodb&#x
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by ericingram 12y ago
As the developer of a REST centric ecommerce platform[1], I agree. The price of an order item is specific to that order and does not necessarily match the product's base price. It may be calculated using special account pricing rules,
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by ericingram 12y ago
I imagine it has to get much worse before it can get any better. Many Americans view the government as the answer to every problem, and thus continue voting to grant it more power. Nothing can turn the tide except mainstream rejection of th
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by ericingram 12y ago
We didn't need GEO indexing but what Toku does offer is pretty exciting. Primary wins for us include multi-query transactions, compression, fractal tree indexes (thus overall insert and query performance), and clustering indexes.
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by ericingram 12y ago
Once again, a TokuMX engineer steps up to explain issue and offer a potential solution. I can't help but wonder why MongoDB engineers aren't doing this. But no matter, just glad we're using TokuMX.
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by ericingram 12y ago
Governments create and enforce laws, so they must be held accountable for them. If the government didn't have such discretionary power, lobbying would not be a thing at all. I don't blame the big cable companies for doing it, sinc
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by ericingram 12y ago
Go create such a system, make it easy to use and widely available, and then you might have room to say such things with some credibility.
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by ericingram 12y ago
I need a better introduction to understand how flow programming works, and how I might use it. Instead I see a (seemingly) complex graph which I understand represents a program, but it's not clear how this really works in relation to t
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by ericingram 12y ago
New VWO UI looks amazing. Great work on it.
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by ericingram 12y ago
TokuMX solves most of the issues you describe without compromising on the query language or other great mongo features. If you are interested in mongo but concerned about these issues, I highly recommend TokuMX.
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by ericingram 12y ago
Yes, initially
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by ericingram 12y ago
I can offer advice and code in relation to building custom ecommerce platforms with mongodb and nodejs. I am looking for design feedback and ideas for a pre public beta SaaS product. Contact me at eric at getfwd.com
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by ericingram 12y ago
> in a free market, the customer is supposed to select the supplier, not the other way around Which free market philosopher expressed this sentiment exactly? None that I'm aware of. Free markets involve free choice of both customers
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by ericingram 12y ago
You'd be right except that we also have the ability to create data migrations based on schema changes over time. I'm glad it's not built into MongoDB or else we wouldn't have the (fairly ideal) solution we built to work
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by ericingram 12y ago
We solve this by creating a schema definition for mongo collections, from within the app layer. Now we have easy version control where we want it, not in sqldump files like we used to. That was painful.
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by ericingram 12y ago
I wonder, what does this mean for TokuMX
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by ericingram 12y ago
We solve it using an "archive" collection in mongodb. Deleting moves a document from one collection to the archive, while undo moves it back. We also implement ability to find deleted documents by id, by searching the archive if t
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by ericingram 13y ago
You may have a good point however the parent thread is about using MongoDB without ACID support and you don't need to read the source code to get over that hurdle with TokuMX.
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by ericingram 13y ago
TokuMX is a drop in replacement for MongoDB and provides ACID transactions, better indexing (fractal tree) and data compression (up to 90%). All without sacrificing performance, flexibility or tool support. Tokutek engineers are top notch.

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