Outsiders probably do have vastly different workflows. Google internally love to stick Bazel on everything and that's quite different (and overly complicated) compared to the usual Gradle route.

If it's anything like learning Kanji in Japanese, you basically have to write it repetitively hundreds of times for each word to make it stick.

> Cloudflare's cloud offerings are usually much cheaper, and I've saved plenty of money by migrating from AWS S3 to Cloudflare's R2. This new offering is 3x the AWS price, though. Weird. Anyway, most small companies don't send enough email for it to matter.

For certain types of marketing and transactional emails, it's cheaper I think. AWS SES pricing doesn't include attachments. If you assume a maxed out 25MB email attachment body, I think the price comes out to be mostly similar, amortized at least.

But if you are sending basic text/mostly text transactional emails for stuff like password resets, then SES comes out ahead for sure.

It's slow. It almost always trails Safari and Chrome on most benchmarks.

See e.g.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ljns9o/freshly_re...

How many milliseconds do you think this page took to render? I usually click and it's already done.

HN is not the most complex website rendering wise by any imaginable metric. I presume HN renders equally as fast on lynx or Mosaic from 1994...

HN is a fast site (comparatively; most websites are unnecessarily slow). It’s a bad measurement.

HN is a good website. Ebay is another good example where JavaScript is optional but with good functionality. Marko was mocked, but now Astro is cool because they invented ssr...

I don't care about benchmarks.

Or easiest is to require KYC for all the buyers (tie ticket to person instead of allowing bulk purchases) and limit ability to resale at scale. This would easily allow them to blacklist scalpers. It's not like they don't know who you are from the payment information, and tickets are often verified against driver licenses at entry.

Legally, they have to disclose all their probabilities (under most regulatory regimes).

> Some things are so cheap you can't mess it up.

A good example would be modern safety razors. I was looking at alternatives to the King C Gillette and most of the generic branded ones performed similarly to the big three German brands.

The type of sales at your company is the top down approach where you already have a solution. There's a lot of enterprise sales where the solution doesn't fully exist or requires extensive customization that it's the blue ocean demo that sells the product, the product doesn't exist until the deal is signed.

There's also https://github.com/mongodb/kingfisher

cool, will check it out thanks!