this reads like new development

It tries to, and it's not.

I just came back from Japan, crows all over Tokyo, but they are pretty much disappear after 9 AM, if you're an early riser you will see them everywhere!

Interesting, I only saw a few over a period of a couple of weeks in Tokyo.

thanks. I plan to do more comparisons, any suggestions?

I'll let you know if I come up with something!

having worked within the CBC, I don't trust the leadership at all! mis-management of funds is a CBC tradition and pastime!

they continue to struggle to understand the digital era, and the executives have gone on record plenty of times in their own town halls expressing their confusion and dismissal of "that thing called the internet".

and while the CBC continues to compare itself to BBC at every turn, that is not a fair comparison, more like a toad contemplating itself a deer.

This exactly. My GF works at the CBC which gives me some insight to what's going on behind closed doors and let me tell you that I've never seen such incompetence and mismanagement at the management level. An additional $400M will go up in smoke the minute the cheque clears with very little to show.

Having worked at large corporations myself I can assure you that the CBC does not have a monopoly on mismanagement.

Yet somehow despite corporations mismanagement they still are more productive than many a small business.

^ this guy is paid by the tax payers

Well, the BBC does receive three times the public funding, so it's really not a fair comparison.

having also worked in CBC digital, this is very true.

We run an open, technology focused Slack community at (https://TechMasters.chat / 1000+ members) and recently we got "attacked" by G2Crowd, they had some intern join the group (registration is open) and then went through the profiles of each member, copying the emails then proceeded to email them unsolicited offers for reviews and feedback in exchange for gift cards.

luckily, we're based in Canada, where anti-spam laws (CASL) apply.

we proceeded to contact them in social media / email to ask them to cease this activity and delete the collected emails.

they fought back at first, claiming it was legit and only would put emails under do-not-contact list, we did not accept that, again citing CASL laws, their actions were in clear violations. they stopped responding to our emails.

We have proceeded with a legal consult and have further contacted their legal representative for further action.

G2Crowd has been extremely un-cooperative, and seem to clearly lack understanding of laws and legalities outside of the US.

(edit: corrected some typos)

as a maintainer of many open source projects (both active and inactive) this obviously makes sense, however many projects fall victim to being assumed dead if there is no recent commit history or issues being open frequently ... while in fact the project might be good as-is, or stable, with little need for constant updates ...

putting money where my mouth is, a quick fork and some adjustment and you have: maintained.tech

Mashape Analytics comes pre-packaged in Docker containers, with its own internal setup of storage solution and tools.

we'll also be exposing a cold-storage mechanism, so you can move historical data out of the system when no-longer needed and retain it for your own future auditing.

Cool - any plan to support external storage/db? May I ask, just out of curiosity, what are you guys currently using?

not likely to support external storage, as the architecture of the system is highly tweaked to provide the best performance.

however there is no limit to how many containers you can expand to (to share the load/storage)

and that's also why we're offering the cold-storage option, so you can move your data freely.

furthermore, everything is accessible through an API as well, so integration and manipulation of your data is a breeze

Awesome, thank you

sure, everything should be done perfectly or not at all ...

We can accept that perfection may be impossible, difficult to obtain, or a poor tradeoff against other factors.

But that doesn’t mean that all imperfect designs are of equal merit.

you would use both.

Django REST Framework (or any other framework) to build your business logic and API services.

Kong is useful to scale and manage acceess to the API for API consumers (as oppose to end users) as well as a plugin system that abstracts HTTP tooling away from your API application, so you can scale them independently.