askldjd

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Scaling Tenable.io – From Site to Cell(medium.com)
1 points by askldjd 6y ago|0 comments
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by askldjd 7y ago
I spent a little over 3 years in USDS and it changed my life. If you are interested in working on high impact projects that affects hundreds of millions of Americans, I would strongly recommend that you give it a try.
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USDS fixed VA's cloud architecture and saved $100Ms(medium.com)
23 points by askldjd 8y ago|0 comments
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by askldjd 9y ago
Our team is very careful at choosing technology that is stable and well proven. In fact, it took a lot of debate for us to move from Rails static pages to React SPA. As for government being slow and only change once a decade, you might be u
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by askldjd 9y ago
Nice! I was looking for it, and it predates git. Thank you!!
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by askldjd 9y ago
Yup, it would. Disabling the TS option was just a stopgap measure to make our deployments stable for the time being.
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by askldjd 9y ago
I am turning 34 coming this September. Not much of a kid anymore (even though I act like one). Not true. GS15 caps at 161k at DC area. It is a very respectable salary. http://www.fedweek.com/pay-tables/2017-gs-pay-table
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by askldjd 9y ago
I actually did look at the TCP layer early on. However, I didn't pay close attention to the TS Val. From the packet dumps, it just appeared that the TCP window had stopped sliding. I couldn't conclude that NSOC's router was a
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by askldjd 9y ago
You are dead on. We do have a bug where we are not recovering the Oracle connectivity correctly. It is on our radar to address the issue. https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow-m... However, There i
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by askldjd 9y ago
Thanks. I think the fact Cisco routers fail to route TCP packets bothers me even more. /you had one job
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by askldjd 9y ago
The government's current IT infrastructure crisis is not caused by any one administrations. The root cause goes back decades. Things like "Improving Veterans' lives so they don't have to wait 5-10 years for an Appeals de
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by askldjd 9y ago
Author here. Completely agreed. My jaws dropped when I saw the INITIAL_JIFFIES. The kernel developers really saved our butt. I could not imagine debugging this problem if INITIAL_JIFFIES was randomized. It may takes days/weeks/mo