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by ReidZB 7y ago
Very true. I wonder if the control plane is hosted in a single region.
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by ReidZB 7y ago
AWS services have their own individual SLAs. Route53, in particular, has a 100% SLA: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/ (To my knowledge, it's the only AWS service to promise 100%.)
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by ReidZB 7y ago
You can also set up rules like *@example.com, leading to addresses like hn@example.com.
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by ReidZB 7y ago
Speaking of, they recently changed the pricing model for (part of) Config. It should be much cheaper now. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-updated-pay-per-use-pri...
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by ReidZB 7y ago
So, I think it does win in a few areas... Like one sibling comment mentioned, getting support from AWS is nice. You can buy Terraform support, too, but knowing HashiCorp it'd probably cost more than most peoples' AWS bills in thei
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I've had CloudFormation fail to roll back plenty of times, though never in a situation where it actually mattered. I've never had Terraform "forget" resources or disallow me from deleting them (unless I requested that).
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I agree, importing resources is a limited use-case. However... it's one I find myself in more often than I would like. Reality is often disappointing. At least, with the companies I've work(ed) with. That said, I don't think
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I do mean revert or change resources. Making manual changes outside the context of an IaC tool is largely madness, in my opinion, although sometimes the situation warrants it. Auditability and controls are one of the many facets of IaC. We
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by ReidZB 7y ago
Yeah, HCL's limitations have been an enormous thorn in my side for a long time. HCL2 (Terraform 0.12) is a big step forward, but even still I pine for a proper programming language, even if it has foot-guns. I do think you're sell
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by ReidZB 7y ago
Perhaps you'd be interested in reading about Secure Remote Password (SRP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco... Copying the "layman's terms" from that page for your conven
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I believe Loki [1] is intended to basically run "grep foo" at scale (plus some extra niceties like labels). I haven't used it, but it seems interesting. [1]: https://grafana.com/loki
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I find it quite convenient, although I do admit the integration with /etc/fstab is a little weird. I've used it to auto-mount application data directories, for example, before an application comes online.
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I've eliminated all virtual ads in my life, at least, and I typically ignore in-person ads subconsciously. I don't have a cable subscription, I pay for every platform/tool I use, etc. I also run an ad blocker, though I try to
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by ReidZB 7y ago
Imbalanced decks usually have their key pieces banned by WotC. As a result, in a sense, the game adapts to the players.
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by ReidZB 7y ago
With Terraform's import functionality, you might be able to migrate into Terraform without any downtime. I believe there are even utilities to translate CloudFormation code straight into Terraform, though I've never tried them. It
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by ReidZB 7y ago
My experience with AWS support for performance issues is similar. My ticket for an Aurora RDS performance issue ended up in a kind of purgatory where they continued to ask for more information and more tests on my side, continued, to infini
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by ReidZB 7y ago
Reddit also has a policy of banning unmoderated NSFW subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/a5xz9b/a_word_on_u...
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by ReidZB 8y ago
Awesome, thanks for that! By the way: that integration has been co-opted for use by a bunch of overlay software, like gw2taco [1]. So, even if not used for Mumble, it's now a pretty big feature for other 3rd party software. I use it re
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by ReidZB 8y ago
The magic here is that this is baked into an otherwise useful, relatively cheap non-medical device. That device (and this test) are also entirely self-service, and the cost for both is borne by the consumer, effectively elective. Also: The
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by ReidZB 8y ago
Ah, but worry not, they've introduced many of the Inbox features back into Gmail! Except, you know, they didn't implement bundling, probably the single most useful feature of Inbox. (If anyone can't tell, this is incredibly
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by ReidZB 8y ago
Their API has been very reliable for us. They do have mail delivery delays somewhat frequently (see [1]), but we rarely notice them. They are extremely communicative on their status page, at least. [1]: http://status.sendgrid.c
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by ReidZB 8y ago
Exactly. CDs can contain basically any audio you'd like... which is part of the cause of loudness wars, after all - you can put things on a CD that just wouldn't work on vinyl. You can even add vinyl effects (warmness/clicks)
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by ReidZB 8y ago
Pretty sure it uses HTTPS, but if you're on a corporate network on corporate hardware, there is a real chance that there's a corporate MITM proxy that is capable of reading all of your HTTPS traffic.
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by ReidZB 8y ago
Yes, there is the "initial secret" problem. There are a variety of different ways Vault handles that (look up the auth plugin docs), but at my org we use AWS IAM auth. So, app servers authenticate via their IAM instance profile (p
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by ReidZB 8y ago
You can also set up wildcard aliases, e.g. I have the equivalent of *@example.com, leading to addresses like hackernews@example.com.
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by ReidZB 8y ago
I'd recommend reading Tao's blog post "There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs": https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...
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by ReidZB 8y ago
They're moving Cloud Auto Unseal to the open source Vault soon, thankfully. That said, for most organizations, I've never been all that convinced that the multi-key-holder model provides much benefit.
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by ReidZB 8y ago
Depending on where your original bucket is hosted, it is very possible that CloudFront ends up costing more in data transfer. For instance, a us-east-1 bucket has a data transfer rate to the internet starting at $0.09/GB. That's
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by ReidZB 8y ago
And a very popular addon did, once, although from what I remember it was debugging code accidentally left in. See ElvUI Backdoor: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2jhlzv/psa_elvui_has_a...

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