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1,605karma·202submissions·July 2, 2019
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Co-founder of Hatchet (W24, https://hatchet.run), a task queue built on Postgres. Previously co-founder of Porter (S20, https://porter.run)
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Hey HN - over the past few months, we’ve been working on Hatchet, which lets you write and manage workflows as code (previous HN post [1]). Today we’re launching Hatchet's prompt engineering feat…
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Thanks for the feedback! Going to take a look at what integrating with Matrix would involve. > -more use-case examples in the README might be a good idea too. Workflow is an overloaded term in my h…
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Hey HN - over the past few months, I’ve been working on Hatchet, which is a workflow engine for Go applications. In particular, the goal is to make it easier to build event-based systems — workflows a…
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Porter (YC S20) | Full Time | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or Remote | https://porter.run Hey HN, I'm Alexander, co-founder of Porter. We're building Heroku in your own cloud - we l…
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Porter (YC S20) | Full Time | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or Remote | https://porter.run Hey HN, I'm Alexander, co-founder of Porter. We're building Heroku in your own cloud - we l…
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Porter (YC S20) | Full Time | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or Remote | https://porter.run Hey HN, I'm Alexander, co-founder of Porter. We're building Heroku in your own cloud. We le…
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Porter (YC S20) | Full Time | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC | https://porter.run Hey HN, I'm Alexander, co-founder of Porter. We're building Heroku in your own cloud. We let users li…
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Porter (YC S20) | Full Time | Full-Stack Engineer | Remote or NYC | https://porter.run Hi HN, I'm Alexander, co-founder of Porter ( https://porter.run ). We're building…
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Porter (YC S20) | Full Time | Full-Stack Engineer | Remote or NYC | https://porter.run Hey HN, I'm Alexander, co-founder of Porter. We're building Heroku in your own cloud. We le…
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This is the benefit of using managed providers, which don't expect you to have any experience with the Kubernetes control plane. If you don't modify the underlying infrastructure that Porter…
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Lack of technical bandwidth, for the most part. To break down our decision-making: EKS was the most widely requested from the beginning, we have the most collective experience on GKE, and we wanted a …
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> does anyone have any insight what's with all these companies coming out of yc that are just open source implementations of currently successful projects? there's been at least 5 now I c…
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Co-founder (Alexander) here. > Do you have any plans to cater to devops engineers who want to use infrastructure as code tools such as Pulumi or Terraform to manage both their Kubernetes cluster an…
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Hmm, I'm unable to recreate on Safari on iOS. Perhaps try on a desktop browser?
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For proper DB management (backups, patching, scaling) we usually recommend RDS, Mongo Atlas, etc. That said, we do support running a basic instance of Postgres, Redis, or Mongo: https://doc…
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I was unaware of the Hephy Workflow/Deis Labs background, but yes, porter.sh has come up recently and we are aware of this. For some clarification, Porter was initially started as a remote dev so…
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Apologies for the super vague error message here: this happens when the CLI is unable to read some required data from your kubeconfig or the kubeconfig contains an integration that we don't suppo…