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Do still anyone know of any resources where you can see how close we are to the line where hospitals can't handle any more patients?

Are we already hitting it? Are we projecting going over? By how much etc

And what is the real limiting factor, beds? Ventilators? Something else?

Using email to send / accept / update meeting invites has a terrible user experience. Obviously email is a great way be able to communicate with anyone but getting a tonne of email updates for small changes just sucks.

Are there any companies working on alternatives to this? I would expect slack to tackle this space

I've recently got back into some backend development after being more front end focused for sometime. At the current company I am at they are quite invested in using JSONAPI spec (which I actually think is great) for their microservice APIs. I've realised that a lot of these APIs simply become REST interfaces over the database with resources mapping 1:1 with the db models.

Our current process for building these out is to build a swagger definition with a mock service backend in js to unblock upstream clients like web and mobile. From there we go an implement the real API in python/flask with postgres.

It got me thinking that probably 80-90% of all the code written for the real API is boilerplate setting up models, db migrations, routes, controllers, authentication etc.

I am imagining that a fair bit of this could be automated, all you really need is a modal definition, and you could generate all of the above, abstracting all that away from the engineer. Providing hooks for inserts and updates would allow for custom business logic to slot in, and would be all the real code engineers would need to write.

What else am I missing that backend developers would want from a framework (or managed service) like this?

I am currently looking into using an ab testing framework for our company. We want something that is framework agnostic, preferably with a REST API but also with good language integrations already. It would be great to have tools to target tests at specific user demographics based on our user data.

We don't really want to build something from scratch.

I have been checking out Optimizely so far and it seems like it will tick most of the boxes. What other alternatives should I be looking into? What do you love and or hate about what you are currently using?

Interested in both paid subscription services and OSS