FigmentEngine

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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
limited?
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by FigmentEngine 6y ago
no that's tau
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
it is a threat. signal could still operate, they would just be at risk of being killed by a thousand cuts.
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
The bad part here is that its impacting multiple regions. really hard for customers to build high-availability solutions when isolation boundaries can be breached this way. (disclosure ex-aws)
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
not javascript, but screenshots work best - other approaches suffer from css and rendering bugs. best way is to just use your browser in headless mode from the command line. you can do a screenshot, and specify the window size. https:&#x2F
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
> Also, curse the Greeks for not using more idiomatic variables. ∑ would never pass code review, what an entirely unreadable identifier) i guess its idiomatic if you know "Greek".. ∑ is sigma, greek letter S, so Summation. And
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
Great idea, I think I can come up with another command to help with this. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
like shisa kanko or "pointing and calling" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
fed$ git push repo
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
drink your own champagne works..
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
source?
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
i thought this was going to be one of those "i saw Joe had this skull ontop of his screen, and did a double take, i realised it was the missing ..."
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
I generally keep my profiles for work and personal seperate on social media. When I cross that division I disclose if I have some interest that would influence my statements. My work handle on twitter is @WellArchitected, and linked in is
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
on the intent question, you said: > Yep. Amazon (GCP, Azure) are making bank off the idea that you can just pay opex to run in multiple regions and lay off your SREs, but if you really wanted high availability (and not just some service
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I agree we can do more around cost, we do offer advice here that should help https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Cost-O... As an engineer I would prefer to see a wor
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
This is not true. AWS provides multiple constucts to help isolate failures, such as Availability Zones that provide seperate locations, and Regions that are designed to be completely isolated from each other. You can also use different AWS
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
Yes, humans are really important in these situations, thats why "Operational Excellence" is the first pillar of AWS Well-Architected - you can only get so far in terms of reliability and security if you don't consider people
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
I can't say for your employeer, but at AWS this is not our intent. Our job is to help customers build better architectures, and if you read the framework you will see its agnostic of vendor. You can't approach reliability with the
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
This is not the intent at all, I work in the AWS Well-Architected team, and we are engineers trying to help other engineers. If you follow the best practices you will spend less (there are performance and cost optimization pillars).
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
It was written by the AWS Well-Architected team, and is based on curating best practices from Solutions Architects working with customers and engineering teams. Its one of Six main papers, with the main framework, and then one per pillar h
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
"S3 Glacier Deep Archive This new storage class for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is designed for long-term data archival and is the lowest cost storage from any cloud provider. Priced from just $0.00099/GB-mo (less than one-
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
opps i did swap, er to test you were reading :-) i'm not sure my demands will be that unusual, ppl consume what is available. and remote working and EVERYthing over IP is a trend just biting
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
seems to me that windows is still where you are going to find better (or even a driver) drivers for hardware. is this still true? if new cutting edge hardware released does it now have good linux drivers? (sorry i was scarred by the printin
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
I work from home, family of five and 100 is not enough. all my tv comes over internet. three TVs, often two on at the same time. add kids with tablets, and streaming radio, teleconference and virtual desktop and 100Mbps is struggling. Late
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
I programmed VB from the first version up to vb.net to me it had these big draws 1) REALLY good documentation, this was the peak of MSDN. 2) object orientation for ui component reuse just made so much more sense than message queues in c&#x2
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
In the UK they do have to: https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/fca-mandated-and-voluntary-info...
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/802455/senior-software-engin...
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
nice! i have job title envy now :-) have you seen https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
this is a good one as well, show how humans and our societal systems act around disasters (we are happy to live on volcanoes even after we see they blow up) The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)
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by FigmentEngine 7y ago
The team I work on at AWS wrote a paper on this https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliab... covers concepts such as Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC) etc

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