nickjackson

If so...

* What storage backend and environment are you using?

* What is your use case for persistent volumes?

* How well does it perform for your needs?

The EU VAT directives that became active in January 2015 state that any businesses selling digital goods or services to EU consumers have to charge VAT at the consumers local rate and pay it to the consumers local tax authority. There are also some hefty requirements about collection of non-contradictory evidence of the consumers location in case of audit. I believe there are other countries who have similar legislation, and Australia are coming up with their own being dubbed the Netflix Tax.

I am curious to know how startups from around the world are dealing with this, if at all. Is it a priority, and if not why not? Is there a technical barrier to becoming compliant, and if there were a simple solution would you do it and what might it look like?

I presume the main reason for companies outside the EU not complying with this particular legislation is that EU tax authorities have no jurisdiction over US companies, and can’t impose it upon them.

edit: Originally posted yesterday, but Sunday was probably not the best day to post.

The EU VAT directives that became active in January 2015 state that any businesses selling digital goods or services to EU consumers have to charge VAT at the consumers local rate and pay it to the consumers local tax authority. There are also some hefty requirements about collection of non-contradictory evidence of the consumers location in case of audit.

I believe there are other countries who have similar legislation, and Australia are coming up with their own being dubbed the Netflix Tax.

I am curious to know how startups from around the world are dealing with this, if at all. Is it a priority, and if not why not? Is there a technical barrier to becoming compliant, and if there were a simple solution would you do it and what might it look like?

I presume the main reason for companies outside the EU not complying with this particular legislation is that EU tax authorities have no jurisdiction over US companies, and can’t impose it upon them.

Hey all,

I'm interested in finding out about different continuous integration and deployment solutions that exist out there for cloud based VM's.

Is there something out there that functionally works very similar to AWS Opsworks?

I quite like the idea of being able to setup several stacks, run tests on new builds, run custom commands, deploy builds to stacks when ready.

Opsworks is slow, theres very limited feedback on whats happening as I run commands, and there is no notion of builds. Its got a load of dependencies that need to be installed on each instance as well.