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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I did a little digging into this just yesterday. The impression I got was that Claude Code was pretty great, but also used a _lot_ more tokens than similar work using aider. Conversations I saw stated 5-10x more. So yes with Claude Code you
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
ISO27001 doesn't specifically require disk encryption. Rather it requires data on disks be protected according to how it is classified. Disk encryption is one way to achieve this, especially in a shared-hardware environment. In this ca
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
This is something we're [1] seeing a lot of interest in. I wouldn't say it is the driving factor, but it is a driving factor that's giving quite a lot of companies the incentive to finally push the 'Leave AWS (et al)
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I've been living in Munich since Feb, I've visited Hamburg several times, and previously lived in London and (rural) Portugal. (I'm British) I'm really very surprised by some of the observations being made here, just bec
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
This is actually one of the reasons I founded our company [1]. I had talked to a lot of companies about doing exactly this and the feedback was, "yeah, but we don't want to hire for that". So the idea was to provide bare-meta
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I was being a bit terse in my original comment. I do think there are a bunch of other situations which don't fit into what I described above. If scaling really is on the horizon, then yes, doing k8s immediately will save you some time
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
Hi Laurens. Not sure if this interests you, but this is something my company [1] specialises in. You don't need to grow your team, we handle the migration, and also include ongoing DevOps support. Plus your company can still remain in
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
For deployment to a single-server I would certainly reach for Ansible as a starting point. Using that I would probably configure systemd units on Debian. Speaking off-the-cuff (so don't hold me to this): If you need multi-node for (fai
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
We’ve used Hetzner dedicated servers for many years now, but not cloud. Our experience has been excellent, but we also design for the platform. Redundant dedicated networking, multi-AZ, networking failover, RAID, k8s, Mayastor, etc. The wor
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I think this could be super unpopular around here, but here goes: This is a symptom of societal unfairness. In this case there are different ways to react, but this is one of them. Tennis isn’t oppressing anyone, so no one is getting emotio
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
> A single AES encryption block is the same size as a UUID and cheap to compute. I didn’t realise this! The UUID spec mandates some values for specific digits, so I assume this would not be strictly valid UUIDs?
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
That is indeed what I had in mind, although I did leave it intentionally vague as everyone can asses what’s best for their own situation
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
> A relation should be identified by a natural key that reflects the entity’s essential, domain-defined identity — not by arbitrary or surrogate values. I fairly strongly disagree with this. Database identifiers have to serve a lot of pu
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I think these all relate to streaming data. Not streams in the sense of the data-structure for message passing (a la Kafka, Redis Streams, etc)
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
The very moment I saw the letters ‘MMX’, a long forgotten part of my brain woke up and said, “I know what that smells like!” Which is bizarre. But to me it is (apparently) the small of new electronics, plus perhaps the ‘hot dusty things’ sm
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I suspect this comment is LLM generated. There is a 404-ing URL, discussion of queues, and some discussion of Postgres CDC which I believe is Postgres logical replication. Neither of which are a streams implementation on Postgres.
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
It is simply that I’m unaware of a streams implementation for postgresql. Although another comment is mentioning them, so I’ll read that in some more detail shortly. I’ve always felt that streams should be implementable via stored procedure
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I would highlight a distinction between Queues and Streams, as I think this is an important factor in making this choice. In the case of a queue, you put an item in the queue, and then something removes it later. There is a single flow of i
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
> > One thing we learned from this process was how much apps use visual cues to communicate important information. Maybe it’s late here, or maybe I’m just cynical - but what does that sentence even mean anyway?! It’s an app, it’s visu
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
The Fog of War is definitely worth a watch. It was a fairly harrowing experience when I saw it. Actually, it is probably one of the hardest films I have watched. He clearly details the war crimes he presided over, and is open about the fact
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
This can be mostly handled in the planning. Plan for server failures, but datacenters will also offer 'remote hands'. You can store a bunch of spare parts in one of your racks (see rack-mount-drawers), then call up the DC, and ask
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
It’s both, we can rack up hardware if there is the need. But building, racking, and financing servers is a fairly well solved problem (especially here in the EU). So, in general, if we can avoid solving that problem ourselves we will.
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
This is exactly what we do (but now you mention this I think we should spell this out much more clearly to our potential customers) We move companies onto bare metal, effectively giving them their own private cloud. This about halves their
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
I just spent 6 years living off-grid, running 5kw of solar, and 14kWh of storage. I setup a fixed array that I welded together myself. I could certainly see that tracking wasn't worth it even then. However, in the off grid-setting I di
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
Hey Sam! This is something that we [0] do! Drop me an email to adam@ We handle the issues the the sibling comment mentions. We do the migration to bare-metal, and then also provide DevOps engineering time as part of the package. We generall
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
Yes, you could definitely do that. Although if going that route I'd consider taking a run at their docker compose self-hosting instructions first.
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
In our case we have a collection of Ansible roles we use for the purpose. We run databases using the Stackgres operator either using logical replication on local fast NVMe dives, on top of OpenEBS/Mayastor replicated block-storage. But
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by adamcharnock 1y ago
This absolutely mirrors my experience. Sentry was straightforward to deploy years ago, but now seems like one of the more egregious offenders in the, 'self host-able but increasingly prohibitively complex by design' category. As o
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by adamcharnock 2y ago
Do you have a link for any more information on this? This sounds interesting.
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by adamcharnock 2y ago
In my experience it is a lot of things, in varying amounts depending on the situation (and each of these is both good in some ways and bad in others): - The USA is a huge and fairly homogenous fairly wealthy fairly risk-positive market. - T

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