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Ask HN: Are there dev conferences focusing on "soft skills"?

Hacker News - 6 hours 47 min ago

At a glance, most developer conferences seem focused on boasting about minutiae and implementation details ("I've done X", "Lessons learned from fixing Z", and so on). While those are fun to attend and are indeed relevant to a stack, framework, platform, or language, they often restrict the human side of software development to fun marginalia.

Do you know of a developer conference that covers key skills such as communication, teamwork, and personal growth, even as the main track? Or those are all considered to be orthogonal to shipping code and thus less valuable, important, or interesting?

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Turbo America

Hacker News - 6 hours 48 min ago
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How do I grow this startup?

Hacker News - 7 hours 14 min ago

I've been building something on the sides, as a solo founder. The product is called Morzepay, which is a link in bio for payments.

The biggest challenge is I'm new to this startup thing and I can't really find co-founders because the people around me aren't invested as I am.

I'm in a third world country, not sure if that makes it even worse. Really trying to understand how do people figure out distribution.

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Ask HN: AWS cdk, serverless setup advice

Hacker News - 7 hours 17 min ago

I'm doing this part time work with another "senior/staff" developer who got tired of writing lots of code with nodejs and decided the way to go was doubling down on aws - and the various tools provided. His new stack is as follows

- dynamodb - nodejs lambda functions - s3 - cdk to setup infra, attach lambda's to various resources

nearly all our features rely on the following "common/reuseable" existing code. This is thoroughly tested because they are reused in multiple projects. -> we have a core set of infra/lambda code that does common things like -> authorization/authentication/accounts - using auth0 behind the scenes - for user management -> billing - using a stripe setup. we have ddb table, webhooks and various lambda to support billing based on accounts above -> managing uploads - presigned and direct multipart/form-data uploads and saving metadata in dd -> creating and tracking jobs - via sqs -> have api as a service module that helps us track useage for api's being sold to public

For a typical project, we spin up the above existing infra Add custom infrastructure to do things specific to the project This typically involves -> adding an api gateway and attaching lambda handlers -> and so on.

My question is Which of you do something similar How do you organize reuseable code - do you create your own custom constructs library? Do you have one giant gateway that custom apis get attached to or you create new gateways to do whatever.

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