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by bgentry 14y ago
ELB health checks have a minimum interval of 2 seconds. Also, when you hit the threshold for consecutive failures (2 or 3), the ELB immediately closes all connections to that backend without waiting for their responses to finish.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Actually, no. Using unicorn with only 2 workers makes a tremendous difference, not just incremental. RapGenius' own statistical model demonstrates this. Picture each individual dyno in that case as its own "intelligent router". Since it's n
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by bgentry 14y ago
It may not be, but I guess it depends on what you have handy. But most of the info will still be useful no matter what hardware you use :) I did this with an old Mac Mini that was acting mostly as a media server. My router wasn't compatible
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by bgentry 14y ago
You are incorrect: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-status#status-i... I agree that the production/development split is not entirely clear without additional explanation. We've spent a lot of time thinking about how to communi
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by bgentry 14y ago
He is paying $100 for a bunch of add-ons, which have no idling. He is not paying anything for his dyno. The only current way to avoid this behavior is to pay for a dyno. If you don't like this behavior, that's something to complain about. I
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by bgentry 14y ago
Addons have no effect on dyno idling behavior.
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by bgentry 14y ago
I’ve come to the conclusion that Heroku must be using adaptive processes to sandbag us. For example, to save on their resources, they must be creating static caches of the pages which are being requested from these cron pings. They could a
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by bgentry 14y ago
Lawyers are very expensive, especially good ones. The man might have had a couple million in the bank, tops. Considering the 2 years since indictment and the trial hadn't even started yet, that's a lot of legal time on the books.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Yeah, I did notice that. I thought it was far less egregious than errors in the Carmen Ortiz petition, though.
490.
by bgentry 14y ago
I gave my support to this one because it's actually well-written (free from obvious grammatical errors in the first sentence) and targets exactly the right person.
491.
by bgentry 14y ago
The ActiveRecord query that caused this was along the lines of: User.find_by_email_and_token(params[:email], params[:token]) If the token is nil, it basically turns into a `find_by_email`. I'll also add that while we had tests that
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by bgentry 14y ago
What you describe is basically how the alcohol industry has functioned in this country since the end of prohibition. All sales are forced to go through distributors who then sell to stores who then sell to consumers. There is no purpose for
493.
by bgentry 14y ago
Can't you disable any of the features you don't want? I agree that it's tacky to have ads on this page, but what would you expect if you're on the free service?
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by bgentry 14y ago
No, it doesn't warn, it raises an error and prevents the application from booting: https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/commit/2fa87...
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by bgentry 14y ago
As hgimenez said, the best way is to not store your secrets in your source tree at all (12factor.net style). Keep them in the environment. Here's a great example: https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/commit/2fa87...
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by bgentry 14y ago
us-east-1 is much , much larger than the other regions. Many more services use it, which is why when it has issues you actually notice the effects.
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by bgentry 14y ago
A quick dig reveals that to be the fault of Posterous, not CloudFlare: $ dig blog.cloudflare.com ... ;; ANSWER SECTION: blog.cloudflare.com. 21 IN CNAME blog.cloudflare.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. blog.cloudflare.com.cdn.c
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by bgentry 14y ago
I recently watched this film on Netflix and it was great! I knew nothing about it before seeing some parodies pop up a few years back.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Salesforce owns Heroku, and we leverage that relationship where it makes sense. Other than that, Heroku operates independently of Salesforce, which is how both sides want it to be. We have our own office, we're keeping our brand, and we ope
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by bgentry 14y ago
That's not how it really works out at Heroku. Our managers and vibe team really push us all to take at least a few weeks (3-4) off per year at a minimum. That's important because we all love our work so much that we work hard the rest of th
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Datomic adds support for Riak and Couchbase storage backends(blog.datomic.com)
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by bgentry 14y ago
It's also by far the most heavily used of AWS regions, so they face many scale problems there that other regions don't have to worry about yet. And it was the first, so there's probably some legacy baggage there (i.e. they've learned from m
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by bgentry 14y ago
Regions are comprised of multiple Availability Zones. Heroku has always been running on multiple AZs.
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by bgentry 14y ago
We also perform our own backups regardless of PG Backups and use Continuous Protection to protect recent data, even in the event of irrecoverable volume failure: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-docume...
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by bgentry 14y ago
We do not post a yearly number right now, but the previous 1 & 3 months are prominently displayed on our status site: https://status.heroku.com/
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by bgentry 14y ago
They were already running their status site on Heroku prior to the last major service outage.
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by bgentry 14y ago
This started a little before 01:00 PDT (08:00 UTC), so we're approaching the 3 hour mark now. FWIW, that's about 1h15m before there was any sort of indication of a problem on status.aws.amazon.com
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by bgentry 14y ago
Source code linked by the OP: https://github.com/abh/geodns/
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by bgentry 14y ago
This ensures that the only edge case that would result in message loss is an unclean shutdown of an nsqd process. In that case, any messages that were in memory (or any buffered writes not flushed to disk) would be lost. I don't understan
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by bgentry 14y ago
And also guarantees that you'll have to come back and deal with it again in the future.

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