How to Start a Startup Video

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Sendwithus has a ton of great features and we recently realized that we didn’t have a simple way to show the true awesomeness of our product, so we decided to make a product video. The process of making the video was interesting so we wanted to share with…

15 December 2014

Favorite Apps

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On the Omni blog, several Omni employees write about their favorite apps of 2014. Waterlogue, MarsEdit (that’s mine), Overcast, 80 Days, Prompt 2, BBEdit 11, Aeropress Timer, Editorial, and Pinswift.

15 December 2014

Stripe's AWS-Go and uploading to S3

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Yesterday, I discovered Stripe's AWS-Go library, and the magic of auto-generated API clients (which is one fascinating topic that I'll have to investigate for MIG). I took on the exercise of writing a simple file upload tool using aws-go. It was fairly…

15 December 2014

Predicting Hard Drive Failures with SMART Stats

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I’ve shared a lot of Backblaze data about hard drive failure statistics. While our system handles a drive failing, we prefer to predict drive failures, and use the hard drives’ built-in SMART metrics to help. The dirty industry secret? SMART stats are…

13 December 2014

Bone – Lightning Fast HTTP Multiplexer in Go

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The Original repo have move to https://github.com/go-zoo/bone Bone is a lightweight and lightning fast HTTP Multiplexer for Golang. It support URL variables, http method declaration and custom NotFound handler. After trying to find a way of using the…

12 December 2014

Graph everything with Graphite

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I believe that a graphing tool should be flexible enough for the user to decide what metrics are important to their environment, and it should be able to accept metric data from any source. There are pretty good graphing tools out there for the Linux…

12 December 2014

Getting Started with WebRTC Using Node.js, Socket.io and Twilio

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It’s been an exciting few weeks of launches for Twilio. My favourite was the launch of our Network Traversal Service. Whilst that may sound a bit dry it’s an important service for WebRTC applications as it removes the overhead of deploying your own network…

12 December 2014