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by blantonl 7y ago
This is really nice, but who is paying for all the infrastructure and bandwidth? Are there more details?
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by blantonl 7y ago
Broadcastify Calls A Full featured managed radio calls ingest platform. Every call on every captured radio system is available live and archived. I'm currently doing some of the final beta development work before I make onboarding cal
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by blantonl 7y ago
Some of these exact techniques, but far more in-depth, have been used to track down and locate child predators who have uploaded images to the internet.
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by blantonl 7y ago
No, I couldn't event place any orders whatsoever, and couldn't check balances etc. Order PLACEMENT and order execution are two different things. The former was impossible as well.
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by blantonl 7y ago
Cloud computing resources are nearly limitless. Provision the resources and take the financial hit in costs. If your architecture wasn't able to scale horizontally because it was poorly designed, heads should roll. This isn't som
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by blantonl 7y ago
Yep, that's me. I'm pissed that my trading platform is completely hosed this morning. I want to be on the other side of a LOT of trades today and I'm unable.
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by blantonl 7y ago
Merrill Lynch / Bank of America's trading platform is also down... so this isn't limited to Robin Hood. I was completely unable to place any trades or even check balances during the market opening this morning. However, engi
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by blantonl 7y ago
Well, the variability in this case is how much system administration you want to do. Right?
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by blantonl 7y ago
I run 8 different production API endpoints, all on Lambda, directly through Application Load Balancer instead of API Gateway, and they served 510 million requests last month for about $200. Those API endpoints took me about a day to deploy
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by blantonl 7y ago
Couple points here in this specific case 1) Lambda costs were shown as actually 50 cents for all this. 2) API Gateway was the balance of the cost, and actually isn't needed in this customer's use case. Lambdas can be placed beh
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by blantonl 7y ago
Yes, see ModeSMixer2 http://xdeco.org/?page_id=48
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by blantonl 7y ago
Yes, I run a large Xenforo discussion forum for my online community, and the term used here is called marking a user "discouraged" The system "slows down" the user experience, and also introduces random timeouts and othe
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by blantonl 7y ago
This is what state sponsored actors and agencies have been doing for generations. There is no reason to think that anything has changed with the explosion of security consultants and firms. If you are doing anything national security rela
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by blantonl 7y ago
Why sad? The objective is to build a business, generate value and execute on a vision using a programming language, not win a popularity contest by proclaiming your use of anonymous classes, unicode codepoint escape syntax, and the spaceshi
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by blantonl 7y ago
To all the haters out there. I self taught myself PHP almost 15 years ago, and I've completely developed over the years, from the ground up and from scratch by my self, a complete network of businesses: RadioReference.com and Broadcast
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by blantonl 7y ago
Probably not much can be realistically done actually. Airlines are hypersensitive to weight since that affects range and fuel costs. The action that American Airlines took to remove complementary magazines from their flights saved millions
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by blantonl 7y ago
If we ever got ourselves into a SHTF scenario (global thermonuclear war etc), the lack of local internet access could be a problem. The satellites you are receiving in this article are the NOAA-XX ones, which are completely self-contained a
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by blantonl 7y ago
The Wefax pictures you could/can receive over shortwave radio are retransmitted from the satellites over shortwave for Marine interests.
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by blantonl 7y ago
Have you ever noticed that photos of lawyers typically have a backdrop of volumes of books with reams and reams of text? That’s why - because it was probably reams and reams of legalese bullshit
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by blantonl 7y ago
Answer: of course, yes. When I visited Fry's in the DFW area last year (Irving Store off of LBJ freeway) I was shocked at how low energy and sad the place was. It was just one big pile of despair. Just a handful of people were shuffl
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by blantonl 7y ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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by blantonl 7y ago
This will be easily defeatable with a crowd-sourced database. It is not even close to easy to be able to change an ADS-B out ICAO address in avionics right now, so periodically changing these addresses won't happen in production. When
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by blantonl 7y ago
I often see these comparisons done to try to discredit the use of cloud computing resources, often comparing single cloud entities to bare metal one-for-one comparisons. But that's now how compute is delivered in projects any more. Th
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by blantonl 7y ago
I own and manage a platform just like this for the police scanner and amateur radio community https://www.broadcastify.com
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by blantonl 7y ago
you are kind of making the assumption that the developer spent all year working on this cost optimization. I'd bet the optimization and subsequent write up in a blog post didn't take more than a week to get done from start to fini
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by blantonl 7y ago
Well, to be fair, most of us who are paying the "bandwidth ransom" do have to scale , quite significantly I might add, and so the value is the platform as a whole. Furthermore, if you are doing something for fun like you are, the
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by blantonl 7y ago
If you are running 5 billion daily requests where your outgoing response size is significantly less than the aggregate of the size of the headers, then yes. Also, the article clearly articulates that the answer is, yes.
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by blantonl 7y ago
FastCGI support looks very promising and could significantly take away market share from Nginx frontending php-fpm and other deployments.
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by blantonl 7y ago
The other OS/2 installation fatal flaw was there were 20+ installation diskettes, so your chance of coming across a bad disk halfway through a 2+ hour installation was pretty good. If you were an OS/2 administrator back in the day
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by blantonl 7y ago
I wonder what this means for the Google Chrome hardware ecosystem...

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