KyleBrandt

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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
Considering the skills demonstrated in this analysis, you might discover getting started with configuration management (puppet/chef) is easier and might take less time then you expect (even in a fast moving early startup). Might have t
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
The recently open sourced VSCode also has Go support now. Good first impression. The docs and type inference stuff are more convenient compared to the oracle plugin + GoSublime for sublime it seems.
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
Atwood captured this well in the past: http://blog.codinghorror.com/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the-...
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
With http://bosun.org (Stack Overflows alerting system: Expressions, Notification Templates, Historical testing etc) we have hedged our bets by adding in different query functions to the expression language. Currently it can que
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
I went to music conservatories before getting into this industry. At least for classical music. As a general rule, the people that get steady orchestra jobs that pay around 100k have a lot of natural talent, practice a lot, use practice tim
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
Stupid comment - I apologize.
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
I thought HN submissions that were many years old were supposed to have the year in the title... Oh, wait, my mistake...
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
Bosun uses a custom DSL, not javascript. What you are saying is fair - bosun is currently targeted at an advanced audience currently. There is active discussion about making alerts GUI creatable to make it more accessible. Can hopefully be
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
As far as Bosun goes: * Self-Hosted: √. (We didn't want cloud monitoring at Stack Exchange) * Scalable: 1/2 * √. The web interface doesn't have pagination, so series with larget tagsets can cause some GUI problems. We have be
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
If you find someone make sure they know about our slack chat room. They can get an invite via http://bosun.org/slackInvite.html
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
Bosun really is different in many ways than Nagios. There are 4 major components that are a the root of Bosun: * Time Series Database: Lets you do forecasting and anomalous alerts. Basically lets your alerts have context * Expression Langua
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
I did a presentation on Bosun at the most recent Monitorama conference: https://vimeo.com/131581326 The first ~13 minutes is some of the design thoughts, the why etc. Then I start a demo with some screencasts.
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
Correct, our docker instance is really designed towards letting people play with it quickly without all the trouble of a production setup. Stack Exchange's production setup isn't documented, but we use Cloudera for HBase, relay al
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
I had the same problem with the first rMBP. I used Intel's power gadget and could see the CPU clocking down to .8 GHz after a few minutes of Google hangouts. After a clean install and still having the problem Applecare let me schedule
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by KyleBrandt 11y ago
At Stack Exchange our monitoring system bosun ( http://bosun.org ) can use different time series databases as long as they can be bent into tag key+tag value models. Currently it works best with OpenTSDB, but can also support grap
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AMA with Stackoverflow's Sysadmins(reddit.com)
3 points by KyleBrandt 12y ago|0 comments
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
Alternative for Mac users: http://macdown.uranusjr.com/
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
I think a degree of latency can be conquered, but it is going to be difficult. Musicians need to maintain synchronized internal clocks. This is because you can't really be in sync if you are reacting to sound. For example it is going
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
Minor nitpick - it isn't mild (which is why it looks so damn amazing :-)
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
That wasn't stack exchange. We failed over to our secondary data center during sandy.
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
I was there last year but not sure if I'm going this year yet. Matt is going though ( http://mattjibson.com/ ). I'd love to chat at some point though! I need to take a closer look at stealing ideas from your tool :-
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
OpenTSDB is our main backend. But we can also query graphite and logstash. However the graphing page doesn't work with Graphite.
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
Shameless plug. But Bosun's focus is largely on Alerting ( http://bosun.org ). We have an expression language built in that allows for complex rules. It leverages OpenTSDBs multi dimensional facet to make alert instantiations
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
We open sourced this a couple months ago. It is similar in nature to Prometheus (So I thought I would post this now) but using OpenTSDB as the primary backend. It also support sGraphite and Logstash as backends. It is largely focused on ale
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Bosun: Stack Exchange's Open Source Monitoring and Alerting System(bosun.org)
3 points by KyleBrandt 12y ago|1 comments
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
You have a source for those measures?
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
That sort of confrontation is where some of the stress comes from. Also when that happens I just say I don't have enough cash (which is generally true).
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
Taking the not invented here idea with Go and the recent generation lost to the bazaar post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8812724 ) is somewhat interesting. I see Go from a user perspective as having both those de
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
I find Taxis to be very stressful when traveling for two main reasons: * I'd guess about 10% of the time they don't show up, so I have to bake in extra travel time for that. With uber I can see on my phone that they are actually c
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by KyleBrandt 12y ago
Also there is sympathetic vibrations. So for example if the rest of the orchestra is playing a note that is an open string on your instrument, that string will vibrate even though you are not touching it. You also get a similar impact from

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