DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · about 6 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

StackGres Reviews

DEV.to mentions (648)

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• How to Get Your First Tool Online

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• AI slop and the content treadmill every developer is on

  Same idea. Four rewrites. Four character budgets. Four hashtag policies. Four mental models of an algorithm I do not control and cannot see. And that is before you reach Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, a newsletter, dev.to, and whatever launched this quarter. - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago

• Docker Networking Explained: Bridge, Host, Overlay, and DNS

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StackGres mentions (10)

• TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

  At StackGres [1] we find Timescale to be one of the most used extensions. Timescale is quite a successful project! StackGres is actually the first solution recommended by Timescale for self-hosting with Kubernetes operators [2]. So if you are into Kubernetes (or if not, consider it, using something like K3s [3] is quite straightforward and lightweight on resources), this is probably a great option to self-host... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL

  * Latency. Yes, yes, yes, they add "microseconds" vs "milliseconds for queries", and that's true, but just part of the story. There's an extra hop. There's two extra sets of TCP layers being traversed. If the hop is local (say a sidecar, as we do in StackGres) it adds complexity in its deployment and management (something we solved by automation, but was an extra problem to solve) and consumes resources. If it's a... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Application Less Containers

  This is conceptually similar to what we did for Postgres extensions at the StackGres [1] project. I gave a talk at a Kubecon about it [2]. However, this scheme is not perfect. Some Kubernetes security solutions enforce immutable containers, and once the agent pulls any additional file into the container, it will be flagged. It's also harder to reason about the security of the image (think CVEs, etc), given that... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres

  I applaud the decision to use AGPL-3.0. For me, it's a license that provides forward guarantees to the Community: no proprietary forks can happen, so any fork will be an OSS fork from which the upstream project may benefit too, which benefits all users. That's the reason we chose this license for StackGres [1], another project in the Postgres space. [1]: https://stackgres.io. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

  This is good and interesting recipe to get Keycloak and Postgres on Kubernetes. There is an important improvement, though: the Postgres deployed here is not production ready (high availability, backups, monitoring, etc). We run Keycloak on StackGres [1] which gives us production-ready Postgres setup (disclaimer: it's dogfooding). Happy to share the YAML manifests used to deploy Keycloak with StackGres. Maybe we... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago