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by cagenut 14y ago
178K is the biggest I can find a screenshot proof of: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Aa7f-uvCMAQF1th.png Thats on one site out of 8 that share the same cluster/platform, so the net total would have been in the mid 200K's. edit: props to char
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by cagenut 14y ago
we have an energy backed currency, its called the (petro)dollar.
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by cagenut 14y ago
I really like how when you look at it, most of their scaling was removing things from the environment and really honing the platform down to what it needed to be.
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by cagenut 14y ago
Me too man but I gave up that dream a decade ago. The hot-new-scripting-language community and top-two-or-three-linux-distro communities just never seem to get along well enough to eliminate this needless layer of duplication and complexity
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by cagenut 14y ago
According to my notes from when I first put that together -XX:+UseParNewGC is automatically implied by +UseConcMarkSweepGC, for which my source was this very old web page about a very old jvm version (again, dark art): http://cybergav.in/2
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by cagenut 14y ago
Hi Josh, Thanks for offering to help. Your colleague Jacob Kessler wrote the closest thing I have to a bible on this: http://engineering.linkedin.com/26/tuning-java-garbage-colle... That (and a truckload of trial & error) led me to
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by cagenut 14y ago
I have the opposite problem, I can't get java to use "enough" memory. Every time we double it in production that leads to another few weeks of re-jiggering jvm flags and ratios and grepping&graphing the garbage collection log or starin
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by cagenut 14y ago
How did you spot the loopback port bottleneck?
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by cagenut 14y ago
Yea I would love to see any kind of data, graphs, explanations, war stories, etc on this. We've invested a lot of manhours in tuning our CMS GC settings, so I need more than "its the latest" to justify a few weeks of testing & rollou
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by cagenut 14y ago
If they keep this up I'm gonna have to buy github-enterprise! wait a minute...
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by cagenut 14y ago
I'm leaping to the conclusion that this is so that their employees can wander around the neighborhood testing google glass without having to rely on spotty carrier 4g.
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by cagenut 14y ago
That's a really nice status dashboard, tracking and publicly displaying your 98th% is really cool. On the other hand stuff like this: "13:17 UTC We are seeing unicorns ..." Comes off as un-professional at exactly the wrong moment.
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by cagenut 14y ago
Hi Jason, thanks for taking questions. Do you see Etsy as competition? You mention a custom built supply chain tech and strong mobile/ecommerce sales. You also share a lot of stats and operational details about the biz on your blog. Would
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by cagenut 14y ago
Please please please please ban "extremetech.com" its this exact same annoying pattern over and over.
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by cagenut 14y ago
I've got a pet theory here that this is going to be a trend over the next few years. A lot of companies github's age were built on the "we misinterpreted devops as noops" attitude, which works great for a few years, but somewhere in the y
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by cagenut 14y ago
This is basically true of all US oriented news sites. Also, generally monday and tuesday morning are ahead of the rest of the week. The best time to try to get something to 'go viral' is about 10 - 11am EST tuesday morning.
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by cagenut 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFCdCjBqcE#t=52 Baby steps out of the office.
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by cagenut 14y ago
This is perfect timing on their part, how many people are having their post-mortem meeting today and going back to their desk to look for options.
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by cagenut 14y ago
This is even more scary for people/startups with their entire business on ec2.
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by cagenut 14y ago
Its not scaling if its not chock full of numbers (and maybe even graphs). There's not one mention of requests per second or latency in this. Users/capacity per shard, bottlenecks run into, etc.
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by cagenut 14y ago
Y'know how "work expands to fill a vacuum"? Well in media noise expands to fill bandwidth.
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by cagenut 14y ago
I'm a total contrarian to the HN conventional wisdom on this, IMHO SOA has the opposite affect on all three bullet points here: Effect 1: Maintainability - when you have N (say 3 - 5ish) environments to maintain you have more to maintain th
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by cagenut 14y ago
I'd like to welcome the github ops/dbas to the club of people who've learned the hard way that automated database failover usually causes more downtime than it prevents. Here's sortof the seminal post on the matter in the mysql community:
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by cagenut 14y ago
I've either inherited or hired a mysql dba at my last four jobs. In fact I'd say its a close call as a young/small internet company grows whether they should hire their first dba before they hire their first sysadmin, as you're probably go
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by cagenut 14y ago
Hey thanks for the example, I think your phrasing was a little unclear but clearly you know what you're talking about, so I reversed my downvote into an upvote. [edit: crap now I can't do that the buttons gone] I also tried to look into the
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by cagenut 14y ago
Yes and no. Oddly enough, Oracle has owned the most important part of mysql (innodb) for years, so them buying the rest of it was almost a benefit to have it all under one roof. They then went on to put out a very good release (5.5) that
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by cagenut 14y ago
Figure I should provide some info rather than just downvote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-multi-versioni...
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by cagenut 14y ago
Keep in mind this is one of dozens of "internet" companies Steve owns depending on where you draw the lines in the greater Newhouse ecosystem (see: http://advance.net and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications ). He's also pus
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by cagenut 14y ago
How would it kill marines if there's no pilot?
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by cagenut 14y ago
could you go into why tag aware sharding is a "HELL YES" for you? I was kindof already of the opinion that mongo sharding is much too complicated ( http://i.imgur.com/c3Dpq.jpg ), this seems to compound that. Is it something you've neede

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