Hey, I'm the guy behind GetDeploying. To be clear:
This is a side project and the vast majority of companies were added by me without being paid for it. I now charge to get listed or add a banner because the site takes too much time for me to maintain.
And totally agree, AMD GPUs are not covered enough. Happy to list your company at no cost to help me fix that. Feel free to email me if interested.
It’s also fair to ask for registration in order to prevent abuse / record consent for terms and privacy.
However, it would be best if you asked that before uploading the photo. Many people seem frustrated that their data was processed and now they must create an account to see the result/delete the data.
Once again, it looks great, it’s just an expectation/transparency issue :)
Edit: If it’s ok for you to disclose this, what kind of infra are you running on? Just curious.
Apparently Stripe's acquisition of TaxJar is meant to expand their offerings in sales tax compliance.
From the article:
As the latest addition to Stripe’s revenue platform, TaxJar will help businesses automate tasks such as:
- Providing accurate sales tax rates at checkout, tied to the exact street address of the customer.
- Automatically submitting tax returns to local jurisdictions and remitting the sales tax collected.
- Producing local jurisdiction reports to show sales and sales tax collected—not only for each state, but for relevant counties, cities, and other special jurisdictions.
- Evaluating a company’s products and intelligently suggesting the right product tax code.
Just wanted to say thank you for writing this Michael. You've been putting lots of great content on your blog! Really enjoying the real world examples you include.
I agree with you in terms of using what you already know best.
> If you're not already familiar with these tools consider using a managed platform first, for example Render or DigitalOcean's App Platform (not affiliated, just heard great things about both). They will help you focus on your product, and still gain many of the benefits I talk about here.
And:
> I use Kubernetes on AWS, but don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need this. I learned these tools over several years mentored by a very patient team. I'm productive because this is what I know best, and I can focus on shipping stuff instead. Your mileage may vary.
I actually spend very little time on infrastructure after the initial setup (a week of part time work, since then a couple of hours per month tops).
For comparison, this post describing what I did took nearly a month of on-and-off work. But I might just be slow at writing :)
Nothing like bringing down the entire production cluster and all services with it on a Friday afternoon due to a seemingly innocent "hotfix". Big learnings at the time, but now these make for good stories.
I learned most of these tools at my day job through some catastrophic failures. From my experience, failure has always been the best teacher.
Kubernetes just happens to be a great sandbox for failing hard :) Lots of stories here: https://k8s.af/
However, I wouldn't reach for tools that didn't solve a problem I truly have, be it cost-effective scaling (my day job), or reusing what I already know best even if unconventional (my SaaS).
I guess what I'm trying to say is: focus on solving your immediate problems first with the tools you already know. Your toolbelt will expand without you realizing it.
What it provides is a set of conventions based on what most web apps look like.
Eg. built-in proxy with automatic TLS and zero downtime deployments, first-class support for a DB and cache, encrypted secrets, etc.
It’s definitely not for every use case, but for your typical 3-tier monolith on a handful of servers I found it does the job well.