BryantD

92 ms·

991.
by BryantD 14y ago
Side note -- I went to a great talk by the Grey Area (Shadow Cities) guys at GDC, and one of their big takeaways was that you need to enable competition between people who aren't geographically near one another. Otherwise you don't build a
992.
by BryantD 14y ago
Oh, I dunno. Let's say I run a trucking company. I think I'm benefitting a lot more from the interstates (or state highways) than that guy who's broke who doesn't own a car.
993.
by BryantD 14y ago
That's a fairly poor analogy in that it implies that each person gets the same meal.
994.
by BryantD 14y ago
If you believe that unsupportive management can affect your productivity, surely unsupportive/hostile peers can do the same thing?
995.
by BryantD 14y ago
Two reasons: price and ease of development. The non-retina display means that apps won't need to be updated to run on the new device, which is a big win for developers.
996.
by BryantD 14y ago
So architect your infrastructure to handle spike loads in the cloud and baseline traffic elsewhere.
997.
by BryantD 14y ago
I generally don't cite specific offers -- if nothing else I consider the information that a competitor is offering $X to be confidential. I also don't like to discuss other places I'm interviewing. I will say that I have competing offers, a
998.
by BryantD 14y ago
Mission accomplished. It's kind of a trick -- I am way in favor of letting developers look at running production servers, because how better to understand a production environment? But a lot of sysadmins are wary of that, so you have to fra
999.
by BryantD 14y ago
As a sysadmin, I used to think in the two goal paradigm. I actually don't any more; if your company has two groups with different goals, particularly in the early days, you'll waste time with friction. My goal as a sysadmin is to help the c
1000.
by BryantD 14y ago
Dell's Crowbar project: https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar Ubuntu Orchestra: https://launchpad.net/orchestra Or build your own around cobbler & puppet/chef, but you're sort of reinventing the wheel at that point. Still, someti
1001.
by BryantD 14y ago
We could argue about how many orders of magnitude, but I agree. It's absolutely easier in some ways. I'm just saying that it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that EC2 (or whoever) is abstracted away from hardware failure/geographic
1002.
by BryantD 14y ago
EC2 instances are running some OS, whether it's Linux or BSD or Windows or whatever. The only thing that doesn't overlap is hardware tuning and maintenance, and even there you should be using the same tools to figure out if you've got a har
1003.
by BryantD 14y ago
When you're using something like AWS, you absolutely need to think about implementation details. As we've learned a few times now, sometimes AWS has datacenter-wide outages. You need to stripe across multiple availability zones, keep off-si