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by 23david 13y ago
What show-stopping problems have you been encountering? Also, which VPS providers have you had luck with so far?
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by 23david 13y ago
Seems like it may solve one set of issues, but will create an entirely new class of potential problems that I'm not sure are any better. A lot of the teething issues seem to be getting some focus though and maybe this will get better over t
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by 23david 13y ago
I keep thinking about Mesos and I don't get what the big deal is here. With low-overhead virtualization like linux containers combined with configuration management tools like Salstack, Ansible, Chef or Puppet, it isn't a big deal to have m
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by 23david 13y ago
wow looks very cool. never heard of it... http://mosh.mit.edu/#techinfo How Mosh works Remote-shell protocols traditionally work by conveying a byte-stream from the server to the client, to be interpreted by the client's terminal. (This i
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by 23david 13y ago
Have you ever tested restoring from your daily snapshots? :-) Seems like a good setup, but to be rigorous about it you should probably also schedule a full restore from backup every once in a while to ensure that your backups are actually w
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by 23david 13y ago
The latency is a pain. I like being able to work from anywhere by tethering my iphone5's LTE connection. Easier and more reliable to have everything working locally (With local dev environments using vagrant/virtualbox) and use the internet
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by 23david 14y ago
All of the posts here with the vitriol turned up to 10 seem like either paid shills or friends / associates. Recent accounts, or accounts that just magically started commenting for the first time a week ago. A few comments on other articles
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by 23david 14y ago
Not sure that it's appropriate for you to be commenting without a clear disclaimer that you're a writer for Techcrunch. Conflict of interest perhaps? Your profile says: 'writer, nbc news & techcrunch'.
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Salt 0.14 released. New cloud controller features compete with OpenStack(docs.saltstack.org)
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by 23david 14y ago
Found it odd that you call 'Pivotal Tracker' just 'Tracker'.I recognized the mobile app screenshot, but didn't understand what the 'Tracker' app was until I clicked the link. :-)
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by 23david 14y ago
A year! How did you have the patience to plod on for that long?
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by 23david 14y ago
Good advice, but most people I know don't find making money exciting enough to pursue it as an end in itself. If you are not interested in what you are doing to make money, you'll probably lack the passion/excitement necessary to really wor
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by 23david 14y ago
Why not also use software load balancers? I don't see the advantage of going to so much effort to avoid software load balancing. It's neat that you guys got it to work, but I would think that a hybrid system would have more functionality an
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by 23david 14y ago
Gotta disagree. Owning a datacenter doesn't mean that they own the building. The difference between renting space in a datacenter versus running an entire datacenter is very big, and has ramifications for their uptime, security of their dat
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by 23david 14y ago
How about just emailing them? I feel like I've seen these kinds of 'wow I where do I apply for a job' posts on cloudflare news articles before. Smells like astroturfing.
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by 23david 14y ago
I don't really consider salt as an alternative to puppet/chef. Although it can do many of the same things as both of them, there are a few important differences. 1) By default, it encourages the use of YAML definitions which makes the codeb
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by 23david 14y ago
Seems like you're essentially saying that you don't trust it because it's not a peer-reviewed crypto system using TLS. Can you see that it's flawed in its specific implementation? This is a real community project. If you can see a way to im
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by 23david 14y ago
I hack on salt-cloud, and found it to be a useful tool. And getting better every day... http://github.com/saltstack/salt-cloud If you build a few map files using salt-cloud, you have a quick vagrant-ish setup that you can start/stop/destr
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by 23david 14y ago
yep. Aerospike definitely had the first implementation of this kind of ssd-based architecture I'd heard of. Use ram only for hot caching and metadata. Use ssd's with custom filesystems for persistent storage. It's a good idea. It's too bad
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by 23david 14y ago
Atrocities are horrible, but to our bodies and brains they are experienced as very very stressful events. You can get PTSD from going off to war without ever seeing atrocities. The daily stress level in the war environment is too high for m
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by 23david 14y ago
VC's are probably just crunching the numbers here, no? If 50-year old founders were more likely to succeed, don't you think that we'd see more of them getting funded? My experience is that unlike in finance, a lot of older guys in tech are
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by 23david 14y ago
You're saying that even if 5 years down the road ecomom had turned into a 5x or 10x return for the investors, he still would have trouble raising money for his next idea?
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by 23david 14y ago
It breaks you mentally bit by bit, and I personally experiencing this a few years ago on a startup. It was horrible and unexpected to find myself mentally unable to get my work done. Essentially it seems that the stress hormones released by
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by 23david 14y ago
Wouldn't it be a better idea to learn from a provider that isn't constantly screwing things up? Amazon's systems clearly aren't working reliably. If Amazon can have an issue of this severity in ELB, one of their core core services, during p
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by 23david 14y ago
Agreed that technical debt is a pain to deal with. But it's definitely possible to migrate and upgrade live systems without significant technical risk. The company just needs to make the decision to invest the proper resources and decide to
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by 23david 14y ago
dramatic
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by 23david 14y ago
Time to fork github. Bad bad sign that they can't get their operations in order. I guess $100 Million can't buy you uptime...
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by 23david 14y ago
AWS is slowly becoming the Oracle of our generation, in the sense that they have found a way to lock startups and large companies into a software/services ecosystem that is really really hard to stop using once you get started. You start wi
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by 23david 14y ago
I disagree. This was a carefully worded response. Notice "commit to you that we will be doing more to answer your questions, fix any mistakes, and eliminate the confusion. As we review your feedback and stories in the press, we’re going to
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by 23david 14y ago
Very cool that this will support regular sql queries and queries can be sent using postgresql drivers. Postgresql drivers are super stable and supported everywhere. Driver support is usually overlooked with 'Enterprise' Data Warehousing sol

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