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craigkerstiens
32,048karma·2,512submissions·September 20, 2008
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I work at Snowflake building best in class Postgres via Crunchy Data, building Snowflake Postgres - a multi-cloud Postgres managed service. Previously I ran product at Azure Postgres, product at Citus data, and a number of product areas at Heroku.
You can find more thoughts from me: https://www.craigkerstiens.com
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A large part of it is what you want to use it for. Python is commonly used in a variety of areas, from web development to numeric computation. Giving some bounds of what type of programming you'd like…
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Take a look at the documentation below: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-js …
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Erlang and supervisor in places have been doing this for a while, but it hasn't been pervasive in any web deployment platform. The flexibility this allows for web production systems really is signific…
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Are you looking for a co-founder for an idea you're already working on or open to joining an idea? Its understandable that everyone seems to be attached to their own ideas, but it sounds like the atta…
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Proven track record is good, but does that mean an exit, good network, can raise funding. I mean on some level any of those is better than none, but is there one key piece that says good track record …
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Mint ( http://haveamint.com/ ) is a very popular self hosted analytics package. Though depending on how strict your privacy concerns truly are you should still look into google analytics. Google doesn…
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Adding a no follow on the link would stop the crawlers actually. Your current approach with return false and a no follow is the approach I most commonly use. The full result looking like: <a…
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This would actually be interesting if it showed long term effects. The posts only a few days after seem to come up every other day now, versus actually showing the long term effects. Are many bloggers…
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There's several in this realm, though chartbeat still seems like another variation on whats out there. Real time dashboard, but not really new methods of capturing and reporting on data. It is nice th…
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Its nice to call out to investors that they should try to stay in touch with their companies, but this can be a good bit to ask for when an investor has 10's to 100's of companies and has various resp…
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Perhaps the best link would have been to the full recap: http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2011/03/07/startupbootstrapped... which starts with SEO and addresses cost/value of other means. Though also, m…