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by abadpoli 2y ago
For fast iteration, our developers build, test and deploy locally using cdk deploy directly into their dev account, no need to wait around for the pipeline to do all those steps. Then when they’re ready, higher environments go through the p
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by abadpoli 2y ago
For many systems, the application and the machine are so intertwined as to basically be the same thing. A lot of web apps are just boring CRUD APIs. The business logic behind these is nothing special. The differentiating factor for a lot of
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by abadpoli 2y ago
As the other commenter said, nobody is saying to make your application completely immutable. You still patch it, add features, etc. But now you only have to patch one container image rather than two (or more).
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by abadpoli 2y ago
> The less it changes the the more vulnerable it is, the less compliant it is, the more expensive it is to operate (including insurance), the less it improves and add features, the less people like it. I don’t follow this. Complexity is
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by abadpoli 2y ago
And yet if you want to build an empire of rock music, the person who teaches stars to rock is vastly more important than any one star. Even the 5x dev who teaches just 2 others to be 5x devs is more impactful than the lone 10x dev that igno
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by abadpoli 2y ago
lol “shadow operation” what? This house was built before cryptocurrency was even a thing. It’s an old AT&T switching hub that was disguised as a house so as to not make it an eyesore in the middle of a neighborhood.
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Oracle didn’t move its entire workforce, but it’s inaccurate to say it was “in name only”. Oracle spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a massive office campus near downtown Austin that reportedly has space for 10,000 employees. I’
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Both of those events were due to localized weather events that destroyed local power infrastructure (specifically, storms that destroyed overhead power lines). These are things that have not to do with federal regulations, which is the topi
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by abadpoli 2y ago
> systemic issues dealing with extreme weather (winter and summer) are pretty well known No they aren’t. They’re often repeated, but they aren’t true. Texas had a catastrophic “grid failure” in 2021. It hasn’t had any actual issues since
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Just because there isn’t a “novel exploit” doesn’t mean this isn’t a big deal. Snowflake is susceptible to their SE’s having credentials stolen. These credentials can bypass MFA. And per the article, they have no expiry. That’s strikes one,
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Why in the world would obtaining a Snowflake employee’s credentials allow you to then obtain Snowflake’s customers’ data? Doesn’t this imply that people working at Snowflake can see all of the data that I put in it? Admittedly I don’t have
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by abadpoli 2y ago
This almost certainly has nothing to do with “saving CPU cycles” and is most likely just that whoever created the Cloudwatch console used the same rounding that is used for all other metrics in CW, rather than the proper calculation for dis
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by abadpoli 2y ago
It’s different because the National Weather Service uses “grapefruit-sized” specifically to refer to hail that is more than 4.5 inches in diameter but no more than 5 inches in diameter. It isn’t “any hail that is about the size of a grapefr
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by abadpoli 2y ago
I’m in the same position as you, and I agree wholeheartedly. The one thing I’ll say is that I think 20 years is optimistic. I’ve been involved in a few huge, greenfield projects that were mostly building new things from the ground up. There
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Seems like an overstatement to say “an entire cemetery”. Per the Wikipedia page, the cemetery is 120 acres with 200,000 grave sites, but only 78 of the graves are RAF students (which still is a terrible amount of people to lose in training,
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by abadpoli 2y ago
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-of-criminal-activ... > The legislation was intended to strengthen the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute cases of domestic violence, sexual as
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Great in theory, but in practice there are still a frustrating amount of websites and services that put a low upper limit (usually just one or two) of the number of keys you can enroll. This effectively makes it impossible to do what you’re
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Seems like a situation where it’s worth it to be cognizant of your bubble. I don’t know exactly what you meant by “our demographic”, but I’m a frequent reader of HN, work in tech, and generally stay up to date with all things tech, and yet…
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Uptime and durability are not the same thing.
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by abadpoli 2y ago
This post is about MemoryDB, not EC2, and the very first sentence of the linked paper states 11 9s durability.
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Of course Elon gets treated differently. No other car company CEO is on Twitter drawing attention to himself like Elon. Tesla itself is also the darling car company of the decade, with the highest market cap. And the Cybertruck, by design,
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by abadpoli 2y ago
Pretty much any big project at a big company is going to have a “guidelines on what to say if the press or someone asks you about your work” document. It’s mandatory training at most companies. I’ve never been on a project that didn’t, and
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by abadpoli 3y ago
The P-8 is a submarine hunter, and has a small weapons bay and drop chutes that can be used to drop torpedos and sonobuoys while in flight. I imagine they used the same capability to drop the survival packs. There’s a pic of it here: https
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by abadpoli 3y ago
I see! I think it’s a good idea, and I personally think that would be a good and overall positive role! However in my experience in a big org, #1 happens frequently enough where it basically would be needed at all times, and would need a se
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by abadpoli 3y ago
IME many security people are already on call. What you’re describing is one of the roles of Security Operations Centers, unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re suggesting (which I think might be the case!) You can’t rely on that as a fix t
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by abadpoli 3y ago
_Every single person_ in the security industry that I know is on the verge of burnout because we’re all running around trying to answer questions from other teams as fast as possible, but there just simply aren’t enough security people to g
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by abadpoli 3y ago
At my company, the big thing that I think would help is if people would stop treating data engineers as if they are a cheap way to get both software engineering + data analytics in one package. They’re not. Data engineers are brilliant at d
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Hit the nail on the head. As a security person, the marketing and data engineering teams at my company are what keeps me up at night. They inherently desire to work with the company’s Crown Jewels of data. They want unfettered access to, an
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Even that thread is strange to me. There’s some people saying it takes 5-7 days to get delivery to Raleigh, while there’s also multiple people disagreeing saying they get 1-2 day delivery to east Memphis (less than 10 miles away).
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by abadpoli 3y ago
My friends and coworkers are geographically diverse as well. My original comment still stands. Even my friend who lives in rural nowhere is one of those people who in the past has raved to me about how they order everything from Amazon beca

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