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by blasdel 8y ago
You only start getting billed long after your instance would have been throttled in the Standard model (or if you terminate with a surplus balance) If your CPUCreditBalance didn't normally get near zero before it's mostly just ins
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by blasdel 8y ago
S3 buckets do not have filesystem semantics so most of that functionality would be inoperable, and also require heavyweight session-based proxies to support (which is something you can easily operate yourself)
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by blasdel 8y ago
Bill Beatty's comprehensive explanation from 20 years ago is still the best: http://trafficwaves.org/
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by blasdel 8y ago
Another major pain point was the constant dependency churn in the RubyGem ecosystem, but all of that noise seems to have moved on to NPM along with the hype and bootcamp curriculums.
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by blasdel 8y ago
You don't put the failures on the resume as failures :)
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by blasdel 8y ago
Absolutely focus on the problems you've solved, and also the problems you failed to solve after getting deeply involved in them. They know that you'll have to learn their proprietary technology stacks, which are always both ahead
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by blasdel 8y ago
AWS has several thousand engineers in the Virginia suburbs of DC, with a bunch of local VP-level management (and that's not including anyone who works on the us-east-1 region)
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by blasdel 8y ago
A common format is posed as a "Press Release" for the idea as if it existed, with quotes from customers — even if it's purely an internal service, the downstream teams are your customers The documents are fixed length to 1, 2
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by blasdel 8y ago
It's more accurately "take money" — don't anthropomorphize them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
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by blasdel 9y ago
For better or worse the opposite happens at AWS The upper parts of the developer career path as an individual contributor have more direct contact with system users
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by blasdel 9y ago
Bram Cohen built MojoNation which was the first real cryptotoken/smartcontract startup After that failed he designed BitTorrent to actually align the incentives of users, without any of the currency bullshit getting in the way
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by blasdel 9y ago
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Systems Development Engineer | Seattle, WA | Onsite, Relocation | Full-time EC2 Foundational Technologies is the core of the cloud. We own operating systems, hypervisors, plus system integration and the launch an
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by blasdel 9y ago
Some of the hypervisor fixes were dependent on the new microcode
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by blasdel 9y ago
He's using the "cheap" Xeon Silver chips that clock down all cores immediately and aggressively when any are using AVX-512 Most of the Gold and Platinum series chips don't start frequency scaling down below baseline unti
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by blasdel 9y ago
Instead of ever being throttled your instance accumulates a "borrowed" CPUSurplusCreditBalance. If your CPU Utilization goes back below the threshold, the earned credits will pay down the surplus balance. If you terminate an insta
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EC2 T2 Unlimited – Going Beyond the Burst with High Performance(aws.amazon.com)
8 points by blasdel 9y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 9y ago
I work on T2, and we just released a change that makes your CPUCreditBalance recover immediately instead of through the old complex 24h expiration model. There is now much less need to stockpile or manage your CPU credits: https:/&#x2
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by blasdel 9y ago
I work on T2, and boy do I have a fix for you!: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyo...
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by blasdel 9y ago
Oh there's magic monkeys too!: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/elastic-gpus/
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by blasdel 9y ago
Apple's App Store review has a hard requirement that everything works on a pure IPv6 network
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by blasdel 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
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Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America(amazon.com)
11 points by blasdel 9y ago|1 comments
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by blasdel 9y ago
AWS EC2 (KaOS Platform) | Systems Development Engineers | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite Each time we launch a new instance type, the KaOS Platform team is responsible for pulling together the numerous components – new hardware from our ha
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by blasdel 10y ago
https://www.bikeflights.com does exactly that negotiating rates for these linearly oversized packages, though it's pretty much only FedEx bidding on them They're $40-60 domestically, and looks like San Francisco to Tor
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by blasdel 13y ago
> there is no movement to tighten the bolts on Markdown Oh but there was one, and it was desperately needed! Gruber's original implementation was absolutely riddled with logical inconsistencies, outright bugs, and even an escaping v
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by blasdel 13y ago
try https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... they don't block Google's SERP referer
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by blasdel 14y ago
I use "Beep Boop" as my umbrella term It's particularly good as an initial answer to "what do you do", especially accompanied by a hunt-and-peck typing pantomime.
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by blasdel 14y ago
Did you read his link? "He is famous for being an ardent opponent of Hitler and the Nazi regime." Nope, you didn't.
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by blasdel 14y ago
Knoq in Seattle, WA is looking for a Senior Rails Engineer: https://www.knoq.com/jobs Knoq.com is a well-funded startup that bring neighbors together and helps them get things done. We are revolutionizing the way household services are bo
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by blasdel 14y ago
Redshift is a column-store database for big analytics workloads and has a lot of very big established competitors, though the cloud space for that is mostly startups. There's a number of products that are really storage backends for postgre

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