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My European stack: - OVH for object storage, domain names and simple Wordpress websites - Scalingo/3DS Outscale for PaaS (looking for alternatives here!) - Mailjet used to be EU but they've been acquired by Mailgun - don't know if that's an issue. Brevo is okay as an email service provider but they could be way better.

I think Mailjet is now owned by Sinch and Sinch is swedish?

Correct. Mailgun acquired Mailjet, then Sinch acquired us. We follow the EU data standards of our parent company for our EU products, which include Mailjet and Mailgun EU.

Disclaimer: I am a Tech Lead on Mailgun


Mailersend is EU and fantastic

I got interested because i am looking to switch to european email service because of law requirements and i know MailerLite (their other product).

But after looking at their site: "MailerSend is a United States-registered company."

I understand they are based in EU but the main issue is that if they are registered in US then thanks to CLOUD Act afaik it doesn't really matter.


Might contact them about it, their mail servers are in the EU.

I am working on a document collection app called Superdocu (https://www.superdocu.com), currently adding automated validation features for specific document types.


Good to see Frenchies/Europeans innovate for more sovereignty


Agree. Civic nationalism is good as long as its not in the US


Very impurrtant work


https://www.superdocu.com

Trying to make document collection a breeze for the last 5 years. Still not quite there, although we're making progress.


Neat. You might want to either filter words or blur NSFW pictures that were generated :P


Yeah, it's a bit of a free-for-all now


I wanted to spend less time looking for my next trip and decided to create myself a Chrome Extension that shows me cheap flights at random dates from the nearest airport.

Finally decided to submit it on both Chrome and Firefox [1] extension stores. The app is made with Vanilla JS and jQuery and is currently translated into English and French.

I used Skyscanner's API for the flights, Google's Geocoding API to get the location, Lufthansa's API to get the nearest airport IATA code and Unsplash for the background pictures.

I'm pretty sure there is much to improve, so looking for feedback!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/your-next-tri...


Site is minimalist, which is something I like. I wish the search would accept synonyms for technologies/languages, like "js" or "node.js" would be accepted for respectively Javascript and Node.


Thanks. Do you know more about the actual flaws of the architecture in the early days?

As I recall, they used to be hosted on Akamai and in colocation centres, but I don't know much about the rest.


Initial Twitter service was built using Ruby on Rails, shifting to Scala on the JVM around 2011-2012. See: https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/twitter-drops-ruby-bullshit/ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2011/twitter-se... for a sampling of explanations.


Thanks a bunch!


Didn't know about Friendster's backstory, thanks. Did JSP make the site so slow it made people flee to Myspace?


I wouldn't say people fled to MySpace…friendster had this initial surge of users, the site become unreliable (and once you set up an account and got over the initial flurry of fun, there was no "there" there. You could connect to people, you could send messages, but IIRC there was no "timeline" or "newsfeed"). MySpace launched within a few months after Friendster (allegedly inspired by Friendster), had more features, and most importantly didn't crash as nearly as often as Friendster. MySpace also was more "creative" in a GeoCities sort of way, you could tailor your page in a variety of ways, and it appealed to teens (who would go on to create Facebook accounts within a couple of years and shift their loyalties).


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