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by bbrazil 11y ago
I have recent experience in this, as I spent 4-5 hours trying to name my new company. I was first looking for some reference on prometheus.io and a transliteration for the Irish for "fire" looked free - but turned out to be to a d
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by bbrazil 11y ago
Flabbergast is solving a different but related problem, it's about expressing the state of your system. Lots of times you want to say the dev environment is like the prod environment, except for these 3 things. And by the way, anything
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by bbrazil 11y ago
I'm not following you. I'm thinking of things like https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/482 where core elements of a language don't behave in a predictable manner (in this case == ha
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by bbrazil 11y ago
A phenomenon I've noticed is some believing that containers solves configuration management. It's true that containers through being immutable means you don't have to worry about what cruft has built up from previous changes
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by bbrazil 11y ago
The main challenge I've observed with DSLs is maintaining and growing them over time. It's not unusual for a DSL to grow organically based on individual use cases that seem like a good idea, and the end result is a language that&#
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by bbrazil 11y ago
If you're interested in this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTHggyZAot0 which was given at EuroPython 2012 on "Music Theory - Genetic Algorithms and Python" is also good.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
Looks like it's a group GitHub is a member of: http://todogroup.org/members/
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by bbrazil 11y ago
While GC is always going to take some resources, the new Go 1.5 GC will bring the latency down such that a lot more use cases will be able to consider it. Going from seconds to milliseconds is huge.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
That could cause confusion with CPython (the main python implementation) and possibly also Cython (C extensions for Python).
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by bbrazil 11y ago
I ran into the overflow behaviour with our source repository provider, as they'd get hammered on the top of every minute by all the continuous integration servers and silently drop connections. The specific version of SSH we were runni
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by bbrazil 11y ago
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user... bears repeating. If you can't change it then it doesn't make for a good passwords as there's no revocation. This sort of thing is usef
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by bbrazil 11y ago
The same is true for the converse, as in both cases you get to be your own query planner and add client<->server latency on every join.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
Among all the definitions I found, that was the only common theme. I've been discussing this with others in the "DevOps" space and in recruiting terms a "DevOps engineer" seems to mostly mean an "Ops engineer&q
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by bbrazil 11y ago
My read of it (as someone in the Debian/Ubuntu world) is that the CentOS split meant new sysadmins and users tended more towards Ubuntu. RHEL/CentOS is still around, but you don't hear about it too often.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
I'm talking about internal libraries of a company, where there is no proven library with a stable interface as it's continuously evolving - similar to a young library in the OSS world that has no reasonable substitute. It might be
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by bbrazil 11y ago
It's very common to have breaking changes that you need to carefully manage in a company's internal code, and where managing that as a full-on deprecation isn't worth the effort. Moving faster is often the better choice compa
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by bbrazil 11y ago
Debs and Rpms are fine for configuring the machine, as soon as you have it where machines and application services aren't a 1:1 relationship that will lead you in the direction of dependency hell. As each application will want slightly
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by bbrazil 11y ago
http://deb.robustperception.io/ is my nightly build. It's one of the few things I want to run on the very bleeding edge of.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
A bit over a year ago I researched what "Devops" means, and the answer seemed to be Developers being able to push code to production without having to involve Operations. This sounds like a good goal to have (presuming you've
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by bbrazil 11y ago
Rented gear in someone else's racks, and it's only that cheap due to Supermicro. I did calculate what the providers premium was, and it didn't seem too unreasonable given the services such as remote hands and taking care of r
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by bbrazil 11y ago
> it's not a panacea because it tends to get very expensive, very quickly. I've investigated colocs near some AWS locations and found AWS to be around 20% cheaper than the cheapest viable option. With AWS's occasional pric
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by bbrazil 11y ago
We'd like it to run on Windows, however none of the core developers use Windows. https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/505 We haven't head back recently, so it's possible it's al
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by bbrazil 11y ago
My conjecture on Nearline is that it's unused disk space on disks that are mostly I/O bound.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
How many servers and metrics are you expecting? I know for prometheus.io we can handle at least 1M metrics per server.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
This presentation by the author explains the thinking behind it: https://speakerdeck.com/kennethreitz/python-for-humans
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by bbrazil 11y ago
That can mean that the server hasn't got data it needs loaded and is returning empty requests, so it's good to spot those.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
I find that https://xkcd.com/radiation/ always helps put things in perspective.
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by bbrazil 11y ago
> There is a strong argument to be made that libraries should not vendor their own dependencies, but as the author of several library / command combo packages that rely extensively on 3rd party libraries I’m not convinced of that bl
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by bbrazil 11y ago
Pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/pricing/ $1 per user/month, with plenty of free storage (10GB) each. 2k git requests/month sounds a bit low though if you're doing anything automated. Ther
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by bbrazil 11y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478632

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