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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> Hiring and replacing engineers who can and want to manage database servers can be hard or scary for employers. I heard there's this magical thing called "money" that is claimed to help with this problem. You offer even h
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Over a decade of cloud provider propaganda achieves that. We appear to have lost the basic skill of operating a *nix machine, so anything even remotely close to that now sounds terrifying. You mean you need to SSH into the box? Horrifying!
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
When it comes to a DB moving the process around is easy, it's the data that matters. The reason bare-metal-hosted DBs are so fast is that they use direct-attach storage instead of networked storage. You lose those speed advantages if y
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It's just Docker - it SSH's in to the target servers and runs `docker` commands as needed.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
If they just paid half of the markup they currently pay for the cloud I'm sure they'll be swimming in qualified candidates.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
I've had an RDS instance run out of disk space and then get stuck in "modifying" for 24 hours (until an AWS operator manually SSH'd in I guess). We had to restore from the latest snapshot and manually rebuild the missing
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
One thing unaccounted for if you've only ever used cloud-hosted DBs is just how slow they are compared to a modern server with NVME storage. This leads the developers to do all kinds of workarounds and reach for more cloud services (
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> Do you account for frequency and variety of wakeups here? Yes. In my career I've dealt with way more failures due to unnecessary distributed systems (that could have been one big bare-metal box) rather than hardware failures. You
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> The number of staff needed to manage a cloud infrastructure is definitely lower than that required to manage the equivalent self-hosted infrastructure. There's probably a sweet spot where that is true, but because cloud providers
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> employing engineers to manage self-hosted databases is more cost effective than outsourcing Every company out there is using the cloud and yet still employs infrastructure engineers to deal with its complexity. The "cloud"
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
You are right about the toxicity, I will edit my comment. There's a difference between leveraging AI to proofread or improve parts of their writing and this - I feel like AI was overused here; gave the whole article that distinctive
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
SerpApi is scraping Google. The "maliciousness" if the requests is a matter of perspective. Of course Google considers it malicious; that doesn't necessarily make it true.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Have you never been banned in a video game and wanted to get back in? You create a new account and call it a day. It's not like you should feel bad about playing dirty with a company that considers it fine to just steal $1k.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Overuse of bulleted lists, unnecessary sensationalism, sentences like "The requests flew. There was no WAF, no IP blocking, no CAPTCHA." and so on. It reeks of someone pasting some notes into a chat prompt and asking it to spruce
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
This is about a non-rate-limited endpoint providing ticket data given a booking code only (and not last name as it's usually the case), which makes it feasible to bruteforce the entire search space. (unfortunately, I feel like AI was
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Google can afford to respect robots.txt because it has a monopoly on search and nobody would consider actually blocking them in said robots.txt anyway. SerpApi doesn't have that privilege.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Google doesn't have to do that now after already having established its own monopoly... just like SerpApi wouldn't have to act deceptively if they had a monopoly on search.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> will the drives persist the data once a certain amount of time has passed Yes, otherwise those drives wouldn't work at all and would have a 100% warranty return rate. The reason they get away with it is that the misbehavior is onl
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> SerpApi deceptively takes content that Google licenses from others They have a different definition of "licensing" than most people I guess. Aren't site operators complaining about Google using this "licensed&quot
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> ignore fsync and blatantly lie that the data has been persisted Unfortunately they do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371307
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Counterpoint: Andrew Tate resonates with the younger generations because modern society (at least in the UK) appears to be an ever-growing middle finger to them and Tate promises a (fake, but believable) way out. When your future looks like
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Apple became infected with the same thirst for "engagement" as any advertising-driven company. That's why even first-party apps like Maps or Music now waste your time with bullshit notifications. Same for every OS update tryi
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Who needs to read mail when you can even make it receive mail! Make an `smtp.socket`, which calls `smtp.service`, which receives the mail and prints it on standard output, which goes to a custom journald namespace (thanks `LogNamespace=
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Only when done by individuals, or against rich people.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Someone leaked some politician’s video rental history back in the day (there wasn’t even anything controversial): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
When you're a company with funding and/or a network of benefactors behind it a lot of laws stop applying. And if all else fails, I hear pardons aren't particularly expensive these days.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The expected result is that the complaints will rot in the queue for years and eventually either closed on a technicality or result in a token fine. That's the reality of GDPR "enforcement".
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
A leak of politicians' dirty habits should hopefully do it.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
A firewall blocking outgoing connections (except those whitelisted through the proxy) would’ve likely prevented the download of the malware (as it’s usually done by using the RCE to call a curl/wget command rather than uploading the bi
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Container escapes exist. Now the question is whether the attacker has exploited it or not, and what the risk is. Are you holding millions of dollars in crypto/sensitive data? Better assume the machine and data is compromised and plan a

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