My general advice on scaling on the cheap is never buy a product that's too high level. If it abstracts away _all_ of the complexity for you, they're gonna nickel and dime you an insane amount wherever possible to extract maximum value. Buy commoditized things like VM compute and CDN BW directly.
Achievement unlocked: apparently my book appears in a major Bollywood movie!
The first 40 accounts are now active, and the automated updates should be running. There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.The first 40 accounts are now active, and the automated updates should be running. There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.
FYI my Cat Pics and Dog Pics feeds are gonna fall behind for a bit because the machine I was using for detecting cats/dogs is down right now and I don't have physical access to it and won't for a few days. Other feeds should be fine but cat pics and dog pics will be stale (no new posts) for a bit.
Thrilled to be contributing to the incredible protocol that Bluesky is built on 🤩
We got a blog post out summarizing our launch of OAuth for AT Protocol, and what work remains. This has been a huge project led by @matthieu.bsky.team with input from a bunch of standards folks and devs. Big milestone for building all sorts of clients, apps, and integrations on atproto.
We are very happy to release the initial specification of OAuth for AT Protocol! This is expected to be the primary authentication and authorization system between atproto client apps and PDS instance...
Just realised that it's been 10 years since my "database inside-out" talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9h...atproto.com/articles/atp...
AT Protocol is the tech developed at Bluesky for open social networking. In this article we're going to explore AT Proto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
