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0 pointsmalloryerik8y ago0 comments

This is a great tool! Can I ask what kind of database and backend setup you're using?

Do you choose articles, then run nlp over them? How do you get dictionary results?

I really like being able to quickly and easily tag words for learning. Thanks. I'm a polyglot and completely relate to the premise of your app and system.

I used the iOS version but an curious, are these native? React Native?

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wkrause8y ago

I'm running it on Google Container Engine, Go for the main API layer and CockroachDB for the DB. I actually have a blog post in the works for why I chose CockroachDB. The tl;dr Langliter is offline first so most of the data is synced in the background. Therefore some additional latency makes no real difference and the resilience of a CockroachDB cluster is really impressive.

And good eye, it is React Native app. I should probably look into following platform style guides eventually ( I wouldn't count UI design as a real strength on mine :-) )

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