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I'm using CodeMirror 6 for https://promlens.com and together with the lezer parser generator, it was great for developing syntax highlighting, contextual autocompletion, and inline linting for PromQL (that part is OSS actually, in https://github.com/prometheus-community/codemirror-promql, much of it built by Augustin Husson, some by myself).



I like that I can write pretty much normal React in it, and that it has a lot of features and plugins. But I'm still a pretty casual user probably.


It's not a drop-in replacement (even though it tries to sell itself as such), it's incompatible in a significant number of ways and throws away part of your data.


We use Victoria Metrics in Prod for more than 6 months. It is very reliable and scalable. Victoria metrics handles more than 2B+ series in our setup without breaking a sweat.


No, it's better. You can focus on the thing you're measuring rather than the bloody platform.


They made some pragmatic optimizations by dropping part of the data where it mostly doesn't matter. Who's actually affected by this? 0.01% of users?


It's about solar on the roof of your house, not the roof of a Tesla car.


Hi! On the road right now, but back later :) There's no established cadence yet, but twice a year or so sounds like a reasonable update period to me.


How do you handle global sales tax / VAT remittance, especially stuff like B2C VAT in the EU, etc.? Stripe doesn't do this unfortunately, but solutions like Paddle and FastSpring do, by acting as a reseller and Merchant of Record.


Not sure about OP, but if you're looking to run a EU SaaS company for B2C or B2B, then I can highly recommend Xolo(https://xolo.io). They handle all the heavy lifting from a tax perspective.

They help you get your company set up (with e-residence) and then hook into either Transferwise or LHV for banking (and stripe, etc flows into that).

Very friendly as well, I'm in Estonia currently and I dropped into their office yesterday to say hi.


Thanks! I already have my own Germany company, but it may be interesting to others.

For now I'm just using resellers like Copecart/Digistore24/Paddle/FastSpring to handle all the global B2C VAT stuff for me.


I don't yet, but as the company approaches its first tax season that will move toward the top of my to-do list!


One word of caution: at least if you're based in the EU, this is basically impossible to do legally correctly by yourself globally unless you spend many thousands of dollars VAT-registering yourself in all kinds of places around the world and knowing global tax laws to make sure you get everything right, since electronically delivered goods (like your SaaS) are taxed in the country of the recipient of the services. Within the EU it's at least possible to use a simplified MOSS (mini one stop shop) process, but that also has its drawbacks.

This is the best summary I found of the situation so far: https://quaderno.io/resources/eu-vat-guide/

Basically I arrived at the conclusion that it's impossible for me as a small business to do global B2C VAT (not just calculation, but also actual remittance) myself, and thus am using resellers (Copecart, Digistore24, Paddle, FastSpring) that do all this for you by being a complete middleman in the transaction. Of course they then also take a larger cut than something more light-weight like Stripe. I wish Stripe also supported global VAT / sales tax remittance.

EDIT: See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowACIitd1s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO4nzWWMAvg


"The Model S was a pre-refresh Model S, which means that it was likely using the first version of Tesla’s Autopilot, which hasn’t been updated in a while'


Which sounds pretty horrible if you think about it - how many of those obsolete software stacks are driving around out there without any clear notification to drivers that they're lacking in quality?


Wouldn't Twitter have locked the affected accounts by now then?


As of your post it would seem to be a 20-30 minute response time. Happening fast it seems.


Check out https://promlens.com/?l=OTuO7josUeU for an example of a shared page with some queries, and https://promlens.com/features for an overview of PromLens features.


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