Marek Piechut

Building Queues and Schedules for serverless.

[Retroid Pocket Official @Retroid0fficial]

Ok ok, we heard you. You’re not happy with the current RP6 design. So, we ask you to vote on which design you would like. There are two polls in this tweet. Make sure you vote on both!

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

@thekitze Hmm, to be honest, I usually regret not using it. After switching my mindset from having a lot of queries (like you would do in REST), to having a huge single graph based on user it’s been mostly a pleasure to work with. Still you have cache issues, but it’s the same with REST.

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

Am I the last person on the planet to deploy to #docker #swarm ? Anyway, experience is still superb.

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

@anpaure I was working with math and nlp scientists and their code always looked like that. After they have „vomited” something that worked we just sat down with them and rewrote it to something a mortal can read. I think it’s just how it is…

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

@Jonathan_Blow I don’t believe these health apps even a bit. I’m pretty fit, lifting weights 3-4 times per week. Have a pretty good diet and lifestyle, yet my fitness tracker says I’m almost dead and my health „index” is bottom 30%? No idea why. Because I’m not doing yoga or jogging, or smth🤷‍♂️.

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

Finally someone in EU is waking up and thinking about what we’re going to do without children and innovation🤷‍♂️. It’s a really good report. Give it a read.

Hope we still can dig ourselves out from this innovation hole we’re in.

https://t.co/Q18xB2BpPV

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

Do you have any example of Reddit ad for technical SAAS that was running and actually gave you some traffic? I'm struggling to even pass the ad validation.

#startup #buildinpublic

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

This is actually super important about network failures. People often forget about it. If your messages are not idempotent and you don’t deduplicate them… 💣

#programming

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

Paper describing how Serializable Snapshot Isolation is implemented in #PostgreSQL. For all you #database aficionados.

https://t.co/2N1KGvrrzH

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

What is going on in dev-tools world? Why everything now is AI-Something😱! When I want a database, I want reliable persistence, ACID transactions, replication, performance, auto-failover, whatever... Not AI bullshit. Please stop🙏.

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

So Reddit rejected my ad as "deceptive or untruthful". Any idea what's deceptive about it? It's a scheduled tasks/queues service, with simple SDK for Next.js and others. I have no idea what's deceptive about it 🤷‍♂️
#buildinpublic #startup

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

A very good post on why dev-tools startup is hard and why you shouldn't probably do it. Also a post-mortem of a very cool DBMS that I was really hyped about. RIP RethinkDB 🪦.

#startup #programming #databases

https://t.co/FWYfBEQ1hl

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

Browsing through RethinkDB source code and found this beautiful comment. Should probably add it as a template for a new file in my IDE 🤭
#databases #programming

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

@Jonathan_Blow How did it happen that devs now have zero agency? If the software has bugs you should have someone that can process things in back-office app. Or fire few SQLs for god sake. Is there really no one who can go to manual control mode? Nobody there understands the data model? 🤯

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

@jRausell DevTo looks like a directory of tech guides & tutorials. Not a startup directory per se, but looks like it might be a cool hack to post a tutorial using my service there. Thanks for the idea 🙏

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

I've been posting my product to various startup directories, and it was a total waste of time 😔. You either pay for their "priority line", or you won't be listed anywhere. Today I found a first one that actually worked, try it: https://t.co/qEHpOM32LP #buildinpublic

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

I did post on few communities in Reddit. Indie hackers - not yet. Will check out devTo, thanks.

Here I'm referring explicitly to startup directories (except PH), ex: BetaList, MicroLaunch, etc... All my postings went nowhere. It's just either you pay, or you're not listed. I'm not sure it's worth the price.

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

I've spent some time last few days submitting https://t.co/hNmWpE9C57 to Saas/Startup directories (other than ProductHunt) and it looks like a total waste of time🥴. All of them just try to sell you a "skip the queue" pack. Looks like there's no value there. #buildinpublic

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

Ok, C++ is simply awful. Please C++ standard committee, just take a long vacation or something. Stop adding new ways to initialize variables.

[Marek Piechut @marekpiechut]

Our current computers are super fast... until you start compiling any reasonably-sized C++ project. Then you just cannot wait for the next leap in cpu power🤭.