Lawrence Krubner 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@krubner.bsky.social
Helping health-tech startups, especially those with a focus on women's health.
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was literally just admiring a brown overcoat that looks like this. unfortunately it's sold out
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November 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
was literally just admiring a brown overcoat that looks like this. unfortunately it's sold out
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But we do need to raise Congressional salaries. Congress people need to make at least as much as the CEO of a moderately successful company. Every salary in Congress needs to be increased by a factor of 20. It's crazy these jobs don't pay at least $2 million a year. The people are our chosen leaders
April 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
But we do need to raise Congressional salaries. Congress people need to make at least as much as the CEO of a moderately successful company. Every salary in Congress needs to be increased by a factor of 20. It's crazy these jobs don't pay at least $2 million a year. The people are our chosen leaders
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That’s what I like about it. Start with bare EC2 and if you need a little more scaling this might be a good step. But “might” is key.
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
That’s what I like about it. Start with bare EC2 and if you need a little more scaling this might be a good step. But “might” is key.
Interesting. At large enough scale, a number of cloud options become worth investigating. But I am a heretic, in that I try to stick with Ansible and ordinary boxes for as long as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Interesting. At large enough scale, a number of cloud options become worth investigating. But I am a heretic, in that I try to stick with Ansible and ordinary boxes for as long as possible.
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It’s definitely more urgent in startups. Big orgs tend to bleed slowly. The org in question would have survived this. But it would have bound a ton of resources in an org with little to spare (as usual non-tech native). And this and other decisions squandered the little lift we had carefully built.
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s definitely more urgent in startups. Big orgs tend to bleed slowly. The org in question would have survived this. But it would have bound a ton of resources in an org with little to spare (as usual non-tech native). And this and other decisions squandered the little lift we had carefully built.
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On a slightly more technical note, this might have been a good alternative to the team in question now: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
On a slightly more technical note, this might have been a good alternative to the team in question now: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
But yes, even big firms can be bankrupted by misguided architects. You read my story about the Indian out-sourcing firm, so you will understand me when I say that I’ve seen that pattern too. It is almost more frightening at that scale, when billions are at stake.
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
But yes, even big firms can be bankrupted by misguided architects. You read my story about the Indian out-sourcing firm, so you will understand me when I say that I’ve seen that pattern too. It is almost more frightening at that scale, when billions are at stake.
Excellent point. And yet, your client could afford the hot new architect, and I assume if you went serverless then it would not bankrupt the company? The stakes are higher with small startups, as the extra expense can actually kill the company.
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Excellent point. And yet, your client could afford the hot new architect, and I assume if you went serverless then it would not bankrupt the company? The stakes are higher with small startups, as the extra expense can actually kill the company.
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“But what if the user number grows 10x?” Well, a) it could easily service those on a bigger instance. Probably even on this one. b) There is a lot of optimization we have not yet done. c) The user number will not grow that much. Business actually reduced it intentionally in the past…
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“But what if the user number grows 10x?” Well, a) it could easily service those on a bigger instance. Probably even on this one. b) There is a lot of optimization we have not yet done. c) The user number will not grow that much. Business actually reduced it intentionally in the past…
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It’s not just a startup thing. About two years ago I had this discussion in a very mature org with the hot new data architect. Who wanted to migrate an extremely stable docker application to serverless. It was really, really dumb. “It’s not best practice”. Sorry, best practice is context sensitive.
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s not just a startup thing. About two years ago I had this discussion in a very mature org with the hot new data architect. Who wanted to migrate an extremely stable docker application to serverless. It was really, really dumb. “It’s not best practice”. Sorry, best practice is context sensitive.
Absolute trash
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Absolute trash