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by bgentry 13y ago
Since we launched the Cedar stack, we've used AWS ELBs as the front layer in our routing stack. Since we had only ever allowed regular, short-lived HTTP requests through our stack, we opted to use these in HTTP(S) listener mode [1]. Wh
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by bgentry 13y ago
The Rally.org page doesn't mention that this is a 501c3. Some of us would be able to get our donations matched if that was the case, not to mention tax-deductibility. Is that an oversight, or is it just because the 501c3 has not been f
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by bgentry 13y ago
or maybe it just wasn't as bad as previous incidents :)
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by bgentry 13y ago
Hi, we usually track individual database issues via outbound support tickets opened on your account. The exception is for widespread outages, but this one was actually fairly small in scope. If you didn't receive a support notification
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by bgentry 13y ago
https://gobyexample.com/ is also a great resource
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by bgentry 13y ago
How long until PayPal suspends their legal defense fund? On a serious note, if you want to donate to their defense fund, consider doing so anonymously. Pay cash for an Amex or Visa gift card, and use that to make your donation.
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by bgentry 13y ago
Original headline mentioned the specific allegation that the DEA was using this warrantless information to springboard investigations into previously unsuspected persons.
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by bgentry 13y ago
tikkun.org seems to be down. Here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... Here's the blog post from the Google Engineer (Joseph Bonneau) about accepting the aw
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by bgentry 13y ago
The detailed explanation is here, linked from the status site: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-status#status-i...
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by bgentry 13y ago
I interpreted your original comment, "Uptime has never really been Heroku's strong suit", to refer to application uptime . I guess you're actually referring to something different. AFAIK, when any other provider speaks
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by bgentry 13y ago
The title of this story, "Apps are down" is a complete mischaracterization of this incident. "Heroku Dashboard/API" would be more appropriate. Nobody's app stopped running because of this. Edit: Thanks for corr
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by bgentry 13y ago
To clarify, this incident did not impact running applications. It only affected the ability to make changes to running apps. AKA, this incident did not affect application uptime. Feel free to view Heroku's 12-month historical uptime da
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by bgentry 13y ago
Hopefully the new version of our API would make that kind of thing easier in the future since it's very thoroughly documented: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/platform-api-reference
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by bgentry 13y ago
Fun fact: `heroku fork` is implemented entirely in the CLI client using pre-existing APIs: https://github.com/heroku/heroku/blob/master/lib/heroku/comm... If you wanted to build something like
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by bgentry 13y ago
someone who ... endangered national security I haven't seen anybody make this claim and provide any reasoning or evidence to back it up. On the contrary, if you were planning terrorist activities, you'd probably assume that the
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by bgentry 13y ago
Sounds like it's not so much "he's missing" as "he checked out of his hotel".
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by bgentry 13y ago
They left out the word "jihad".
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New leak: Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks(guardian.co.uk)
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by bgentry 13y ago
Sounds like it: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-0.4.0-release...
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by bgentry 13y ago
I agree with the rest of your comment, but... a single nine service? You think they have 36.5 full days of downtime yearly, 3 full days monthly, 16.8 hours weekly, or 2.4 hours downtime every day? That's certainly not the case. Not to menti
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by bgentry 13y ago
That is correct. However, using and maintaining client certificates is a huge pain, especially for a massively multitenant service such as Heroku. HTTP Basic Auth is quite a bit simpler as an authentication mechanism and, over TLS, is suffi
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by bgentry 13y ago
they had a bug with their scheduler which wouldn't terminate processes. What ended up happening was that customers got billed for processing time they didn't use. Heroku fixed the billing issue after they were told of this issue. Is there
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by bgentry 14y ago
Yeah, ran into a weird issue with our blog. Should be fixed now.
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by bgentry 14y ago
A great alternative if you can't (or don't want to) close port 80 is to return a 401 for non-HTTPS requests to your API, rather than redirecting with a 301 from HTTP->HTTPS. This has the side effect of making sure that HTTP clients can
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by bgentry 14y ago
Can you explain on why you think the new Github homepage imitates Dropbox's homepage? They both look pretty standard to me.
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by bgentry 14y ago
But there is insufficient demand to warrant a change? No But it would be technologically too demanding? No But we don't think its a problem to wait 6+ seconds? Actually, if you're not paying us for service, we think this is completely
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by bgentry 14y ago
You are certainly not the only person we've heard this from. We understand that there's demand for single-dyno apps that don't idle.
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HTTP 2.0 - draft 2(tools.ietf.org)
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by bgentry 14y ago
I'd say there's a major flaw here - "the new world of concurrent web backends" - If now was 1995 I might agree with you, but having concurrency in web-app servers is not new. Sadly, concurrency is relatively new and unfamiliar territory t
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by bgentry 14y ago
ELBs have a least-conn per node routing behavior. If your ELB is present in more than 1 AZ, then you have more than one node. If you have any non-trivial amount of scale, then you probably have well more than 1 node.

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