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   Stay safe while using html_safe in Rails(product.reverb.com)

   3 points by atom_enger 11y ago|0 comments
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   Now that I think of it, the chef cookbook for Runit is what made it so easy to deploy to production. The 'runit_service' resource was absolutely invaluable. Forget the complicated upstart stanzas or dealing with supervisord, just
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   Runit is amazing. I've used it on several large scale websites with great success. Runit follows the unix philosophy of being stupid simple and doing one thing incredibly well. If you're starting up a new project, consider using R
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   I'll second this. Our stack is Rails on AWS backed by PostgreSQL, Redis (sidekiq) and Elasticsearch. Bonus points if you're in the Chicagoland area and think it's interesting to build the best place on the internet to buy&#x2
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   Yeah, that's precisely where it became useful. Deploying our code into a datacenter with extremely strict security requirements(meaning no bundle install to get deps on the host, everything had to come with).
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   I've been using Omnibus extensively since they introduced it at ChefConf'13...and I just spent the last two weeks cleansing my infrastructure of anything Omnibus related in favor of using Packer + Amazon AMI's. Some projects
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   This is starting to sound a lot like Her( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ ). It'll likely be the case one day.
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   Sounds like competition to Tinder. That being said - this is awesome! Excited to start playing with DCOS.
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   by atom_enger 11y ago

   Can you elaborate on this? I'm debating whether or not I should get one.
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    by atom_enger 11y ago

    We use it to replicate production traffic to our staging and testing environments at https://reverb.com . It's an incredibly useful and functional tool. We've used it to shake out exceptions from our blue/green dep
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    Show HN: Affirm client library for Ruby(github.com)

    3 points by atom_enger 11y ago|0 comments
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    PayPal Express Checkout Broken(product.reverb.com)

    6 points by atom_enger 11y ago|0 comments
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    Chicago, IL - Frontend, Backend, Sales, UI, Mobile, iOS, Android Reverb.com( https://reverb.com ) - Marketplace for musicians by musicians. We're building the worlds largest platform to compete with the likes of eBay and Amaz
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    > That means the explanations are to be found in genetics and evolution, not psychochemistry. Right, the point here is that perhaps the psychoactive substances aided our ancestors in making decisions or enlightening them(or straight up e
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    Once you see it this way, it's hard to stand in line at Starbucks and think "I'm not an addict." Everyone and their mother is addicted to something, it's just a matter of whether or not the authorities approve of yo
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    A Simple Priority Queue with Redis in Ruby(reddit.com)

    5 points by atom_enger 12y ago|0 comments
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I've updated the post to omit that statement since it's not entirely helpful.
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    Here's a quick writeup I made with all of the information I found in this thread. Feedback welcome: http://product.reverb.com/2015/01/28/patching-cve-2015-0235-...
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    Speaking of Chicago based startups, Reverb.com is hiring :) http://reverb.com/page/jobs Check out our engineering blog at: http://product.reverb.com
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    First Line of Defense: Blocking Bad POST Requests Using NGINX Rate Limiting(product.reverb.com)

    7 points by atom_enger 12y ago|0 comments
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    AWS has really taken the IaaS thing seriously. I don't think about failed hard drives, power supplies or switches anymore. I think about the health of my applications and design them to fail gracefully when failures happen. You can do
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    I run Reverb ( https://reverb.com ) and there's a lot of good information in this thread. Backups, Security, Alerts, Monitoring, all good things. However, the biggest piece to scaling your application is the automation of eve
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    This was linked elsewhere in the thread https://github.com/etsy/cdncontrol/ and Etsy seemed to be up through the entire thing. So perhaps they're doing something right :)
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    Seems like the best way to verify an AWS outage is via Twitter (#AWS) ... This doesn't feel right ..
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    by atom_enger 12y ago

    Also experiencing issues with the AWS Console. Still not resolved for me.