> More than 50,000 enterprises and startups use Cloudboost...
This is an example of why tech companies in emerging markets have to battle against prejudice. People have seen just too much of this kind of dishonesty and assume the worst. Thank you CloudBoost for making the world a worse place.
And the "kamrindanielle" that is posting here seems to be affiliated with CloudBoost whilst using "they" instead of "we". So they sure keep an eye on the threads here.
> CloudBoost runs on MongoDB and Redis. You're responsible for managing the uptime, replication, sharding, backups of your data in each of these databases.
Yeah, no thanks. I'd much rather use Firebase/Algolia because a large part of their value proposition is that you don't have to worry about the hard things like replication, sharding, and backups.
It is super exciting to see projects like this! Is there anything similar that uses Postgres, or any other database that has a better reputation for data integrity than Mongo?
I'm confused to see this marketed as serverless- it seems very much server-full. Is there an easy-to-follow guide for setting up cloudboost on Azure or AWS?
I hate to shit on projects, but there's 0 way this is production ready.
Marak mentioned the lack of tests. Logging is inconsistent - half is console.log, half is winston, and none of it is exposed to the user. No monitoring. No secret management. This was not designed to scale.
Most of this stuff is just from experience and knowing what you need in a production application. Can you get away with no logging/monitoring? Sure, but I'd hate to be the guy trying to debug an error. Similarly, rotating keys sucks and you never want to explain to an auditor why sensitive info isn't encrypted.
This is a repeat spammer, and has been previously dead/hide before, along with a ton of accounts.
Their domain is also blocked on reddit for repeated spam and shilling. They also spam the shit out of quora and others. The founder's reddit account is banned for excess spam.
They repeatedly lie about their customers, they lie about their technologies, and more. There was quite a bit of backpedaling last time when they were advertising 50k customers, slack written in cloudboost, and sony and BoA being clients.
I guess they just lost 45k clients from last time they spammed.
The codebase is trash, there are hardcoded credentials all over, this is not the first time this has been posted this week.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 46.1 ms ] threadWebsite for product says: More than 50,000 enterprises and startups use Cloudboost. Including: Sony, Bank of America, Adobe, Hersey, and Coca-Cola.
I'm just not sure the authors of this library are being forthright about it's market and capabilities.
This is an example of why tech companies in emerging markets have to battle against prejudice. People have seen just too much of this kind of dishonesty and assume the worst. Thank you CloudBoost for making the world a worse place.
Edit: to make things worse, there's a 500-char long line in the same file, with minimal comments except for todo's.
Yeah, no thanks. I'd much rather use Firebase/Algolia because a large part of their value proposition is that you don't have to worry about the hard things like replication, sharding, and backups.
https://angel.co/kamrin-danielle
The value of hosted services goes away when they're no long managed.
I would also recommend adding CloudBoost in your HN profile.
I'm confused to see this marketed as serverless- it seems very much server-full. Is there an easy-to-follow guide for setting up cloudboost on Azure or AWS?
Marak mentioned the lack of tests. Logging is inconsistent - half is console.log, half is winston, and none of it is exposed to the user. No monitoring. No secret management. This was not designed to scale.
I can't even find the SDKs they were advertising.
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ignition
Most of this stuff is just from experience and knowing what you need in a production application. Can you get away with no logging/monitoring? Sure, but I'd hate to be the guy trying to debug an error. Similarly, rotating keys sucks and you never want to explain to an auditor why sensitive info isn't encrypted.
Their domain is also blocked on reddit for repeated spam and shilling. They also spam the shit out of quora and others. The founder's reddit account is banned for excess spam.
They repeatedly lie about their customers, they lie about their technologies, and more. There was quite a bit of backpedaling last time when they were advertising 50k customers, slack written in cloudboost, and sony and BoA being clients.
I guess they just lost 45k clients from last time they spammed.
The codebase is trash, there are hardcoded credentials all over, this is not the first time this has been posted this week.
Do not trust.