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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
I doubt they have quite that much spare capacity in any AZ. In the past (2012) they seemed to be capacity constrained when a whole AZ went offline. In a situation like that, some customers would move to a different AZ quickly, and others wo
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Building a scalable and available home feed at Pinterest(engineering.pinterest.com)
2 points by RyanGWU82 12y ago|0 comments
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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
CloudFlare and Amazon CloudFront are both origin pull CDNs. (They pull content from your origin server as it is requested from users in different locations.) It looks like they should work just fine with WP Rocket. What makes you think they
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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
Amazon rebooted lots of PV guests. Presumably they collocate HVM and PV guests on the same box. If there were any HVM guests on the box, then there could be the possibility of an attack. (I guess they could forcibly kick off the HVM guests,
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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
I was pretty unhappy with how Rackspace handled the maintenance window. 1. Rackspace's maintenance announcement was sent at 9:00 PM on Friday night (Pacific time). Seriously?! I had already left for a weekend vacation without my laptop
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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
I'll look into it and let you know!
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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
We push DNS into Route 53 at Runscope, and I trust our approach for the reasons you mentioned. Route 53 has a great track record for DNS uptime. If our sync system breaks, Route 53 will keep serving DNS records while we fix the sync system.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things(medium.com)
2 points by RyanGWU82 12y ago|0 comments
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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
Detail Page (page of product details).
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by RyanGWU82 12y ago
I used to work for a pre-IPO startup that had experienced a pretty big run-up in their stock price. As a result, their new hires were getting options to buy 200 shares at $100 per share. (I made up those numbers, but you get the idea.) They
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Pinterest releases their first Legal Transparency Report(pinterest.zendesk.com)
2 points by RyanGWU82 13y ago|0 comments
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Zookeeper resilience at Pinterest(engineering.pinterest.com)
6 points by RyanGWU82 13y ago|2 comments
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
This post was just an incident review for a technology audience. Dropbox posted a separate apology to their users on their main blog: https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/01/back-up-and-running/ . The tone and detai
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
I'm in the same position, although I returned my kit before the November 22 cutoff date. I figure I could probably request a refund given the new FDA situation -- given their regulatory situation, they'll probably loosen their re
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
Is there any service provider whose TOS compels them to provide service unconditionally to the general public? If you were running an SaaS service, wouldn't you want some recourse if a customer was abusing your service? If you're
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The Cost of Unpaid Experience(soberbuildengineer.com)
3 points by RyanGWU82 13y ago|0 comments
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
I'd compare Bose to a full-size sedan, something like a Toyota Avalon. Toyota designed the Avalon to provide a smooth and calm ride in a luxurious package. So the Avalon's suspension/steering/engine are all tuned for a
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
S3's not completely indestructible, but it is the most reliable platform I've encountered. During the ~1.5 years I was at Pinterest, we used S3 to store and serve all of the cached images on our site, with CDNs in front of cours
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
Compliance is the main reason to purchase Dedicated Instances -- maybe the only reason at all. Amazon could always silently introduce better physical hardware, at which point they could put 2+ cc2.8xlarge instances on a physical server. I&#
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
Both of these features look really useful; kudos to AWS for launching them. I've already moved my personal website's root domain directly to CloudFront. (I was previously hosting the root domain through S3 and the "www"
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by RyanGWU82 13y ago
Have you tried S/MIME instead of PGP? S/MIME support is built into desktop mail clients like Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple's Mail.app.
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
I think the biggest direct competitors are Rackspace, Windows Azure, Google Cloud, HP, and Dell. Indirectly, VMware and OpenStack are huge competitors too. Lots of companies are trying to decide how their existing infrastructure fits in wit
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
My company used gevent in production at very large scale, and we were extremely happy with it. In fact, we ported our existing Django and Flask applications to run under gevent, which was a surprisingly fast process. (Weeks, not months, to
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
Exactly -- I was benchmarking a disk that was having a performance problem. and I did something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" instead of "of=/testfile".
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
/dev/zero is plenty fast... :-/
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
I have my own domain for email, IM, and my personal website. It allows me to move from one provider to another without having to update my address everywhere. Even if Google doesn't shut down Gmail, something better could come along, and I
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
It's not so funny when you do this accidentally, on a 2 TB disk full of user data, on a live production server, at 2AM on a Friday night... (The server was part of a MogileFS cluster so there were multiple copies of the data online. There w
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
This isn't getting much attention on HN, but this is a Big Deal. It's important to be on Virtual Private Cloud for a few reasons. Here are a few: 1. VPC gets you out of the EC2 private IP space, and lets you configure instances without publ
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
Why do we conduct multiple interviews in the first place? Because, as a group, we want to gather all the information we need to make an informed decision. Some quick discussion between interviews can help make sure we gather all the infor
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by RyanGWU82 14y ago
Prior art is irrelevant for trademarks -- a trademark doesn't have to be unique for you to use it. There was an item called a "macintosh" before the name Macintosh was trademarked. The word "dropbox" had been used in file sharing software l

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