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by NathanKP 8y ago
It's not a good comment if you consider that the browser crash they were experiencing wasn't even the website's fault, it was the browser being buggy. The JavaScript error that they copied from the console was an error from
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Gotcha. Thanks for explaining!
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Technically CloudFlare workers is better compared with Lambda @ Edge no? I don't think you'd be using API Gateway, instead CloudFront right?
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No idea. Given that a secure password hash will probably take about 100ms-200ms of execution time to calculate that would fall under Cloudflares "custom pricing" tier that you need to call them and negotiate. The baseline Cloudfla
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It's not quite that straightforward. Lambda is more expensive per cycle if you are capable of keeping an instance fully utilized and getting every cycle out of that machine. After all if your Node.js or Go code takes say 20ms per reque
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Hmm I understand what you are saying. However, as you said the overall tax revenue increase is definitely happening, conflating the two. In 2017 the county made $4.8 billion in property taxes, and in 2018 it will be $5.6 billion. So they ar
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Raising money to help the homeless is needed, but I really don't understand why Seattle felt it needed an extra tax on businesses. In my mind: 1. Cost of living and property values go up in the city 2. Higher property values mean more
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by NathanKP 8y ago
Full disclosure I am an Amazon Web Services employee. The thing to realize about Amazon is that employees (at least on the tech side) are shareholders too, and a large amount of our compensation comes in the form of Amazon stock. Amazon sal
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The documentation should be up now. Try a hard refresh in your browser if you are still seeing an error page.
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No ECS is definitely not going away. Having multiple ways of doing something is not strange for Amazon, in fact its what you should expect from Amazon. Just look at how many different database options there are! ECS will remain as the free
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Yeah the DB example is particularly relevant. Amazon Aurora now has continuous point in time backups so in the event of something going wrong you can roll the database back to an arbitrary second: https://aws.amazon.com/blog
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If you have encountered a specific issue where you feel that Amazon ignored you because you weren't a big account please email me using the address on my HN profile. In my experience both on the customer side and now the employee side
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> You just have to have the discipline to run your internal data center the way cloud providers do. AWS employee here, so I am obviously cloud provider biased, but in my viewpoint having that discipline only comes from having very good,
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by NathanKP 9y ago
I don't think its a "l33t" thing its just cultural. A fair number of engineers grew up with old computers that looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/WERwVsS.jpg Personally I learned to code on an old cathode
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Hmm what about brand gating then? Have you been able to try that out?
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Brand Registry is the first step to applying for brand gating which does stop other people from selling your ASIN on Amazon: https://www.helium10.com/blog/selling-on-amazon/brand-gating...
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by NathanKP 9y ago
Gotcha. Yeah I don't sell on Amazon myself or work on the retail side so I can't speak to the effectiveness on that side. It sounds like something they need to improve upon. Have you looked up Brand Gating too? My (admittedly limi
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by NathanKP 9y ago
Full disclosure I work for Amazon (on the web services side). The author of this article clearly doesn't know much about selling on Amazon, because what he is asking for is possible. It's called the Amazon Brand Registry. You can
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I think the point is that its a cost/benefit analysis. The cost of removing trust from the equation is much higher than the cost of just trusting a intermediary. In simple terms even if my bank was evil and occasionally abused my trust
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Yep these things can actually survive in the vacuum of space as well as go without food or water for 30 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
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Awesome. That's great to hear. I was specifically wondering since this isn't just a metal satellite, there are cushions and fabric and stuff which can probably hold a lot of microbes.
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Of course its low, but its still something that needs to be considered as more and more commercial organizations gain the ability to launch things into our solar system. Obviously an organization like SpaceX has a commercial focus rather th
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From the link I sent: > The United States is a signatory to an international treaty that stipulates that exploration must be conducted in a manner that avoids of the transportation of living organisms to celestial bodies. First of all th
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One question I had about the Tesla launch that wasn't clear is whether the car was thoroughly sanitized prior to sending it up. My understanding is that any object that has the potential to reach another planet has to be thoroughly ste
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Building a socket.io chat app and deploying it using AWS Fargate(medium.com)
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by NathanKP 9y ago
No problem! I'd love to hear more from you about which aspects of ECS you find most inefficient or limiting though, because obviously one of our goals is for ECS to reduce your costs, that's why it is a free service after all. Eve
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The scheduled tasks system is built on top of Cloudwatch Events, which is asynchronous system. You would need to setup a rule in Cloudwatch Events to watch for task events that indicate that a task stopped with a nonzero exit code, or that
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Using a container orchestration system gives you far more resilience than just running a docker image on an EC2 instance. When you run a docker image on an EC2 instance if that docker image crashes what will restart it? What if the EC2 inst
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AWS employee on the container services team here. We are definitely building out a hosted Kubernetes solution with EKS, but its important to realize that Kubernetes is just one part of the container services ecosystem at AWS, living alongsi
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Actually Bitcoin has transaction fees for exactly this purpose. The idea is that once all the coins are mined the primary way that miners make money is from the fees that people pay to miners to get their transactions recorded in the blockc

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