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by cagenut 15y ago
Thats interesting considering they killed off the luwak plugin a few months ago.
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by cagenut 15y ago
They have a "self support" license, which is basically just a subscription to a yum repo. In the net cost of my hardware and datacenter bills, its a pretty tiny part. I'm glad to pay it to fund the development of something that saves me s
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by cagenut 15y ago
What sucks about Rails is that its a horribly inefficient as a JSON pump in terms of memory consumption; its just not the right tool for the job. This really only matters on tiny vps servers for low/no-revenue companies. RAM is soo
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by cagenut 15y ago
Has anyone gotten a wrapper library going where you can treat s3 and this as a sort of cloud-raid-1 storage?
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by cagenut 15y ago
They have a phrase for this in the newspaper industry, "replacing print dollars with digital dimes". If you're interested in a lot more facts & figures plus a graph this post has them: http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2012/03/newspaper-sa
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by cagenut 15y ago
Thank you commenter "holman" on this third party discussion site, but as a paying customer could github please post something official somewhere like now
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by cagenut 15y ago
Benchmarking over loopback on your laptop is like the #1 benchmarking anti-pattern. It is, at best, accurate to within an order of magnitude.
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by cagenut 15y ago
Tumblr is an extremely pageview heavy design, but the industry has moved away from PV as an important metric for a few years now. Fortunately they're nice enough to post their quantcast data publicly: http://www.quantcast.com/p-19UtqE8ngo
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by cagenut 15y ago
Of all the really out-of-nowhere/longer-lasting outages I've been hit by a clear pattern emerged that its always the "alley-oop" or "one-two punch combo" issues that really get you.
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by cagenut 15y ago
What this (very good) post calls the "condo" tier is what the hosting industry calls "co-lo" or "co-location". Search that term and you'll get more options than you can probably wade through. The "rackspace" option (biggest name for good
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by cagenut 15y ago
This is straight up web operations 101, has nothing to do with MongoDB. Hearing you pushing for a new tool at the last minute, then changing its setup/config/architecture repeatedly over a few days, then blaming your sysadmin for a setting.
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by cagenut 15y ago
I'm a sysadmin, who can't program, who has setup and used puppet very successfully at two different comscore top-100 sites to provide faster, more reproducible builds with better revision tracking and change control. There's nothing delus
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by cagenut 15y ago
Yes S3 can get expensive, but imho this swings the pendulum too far in the other direction. Something like a riak cluster of four 2U/24-drive servers would get you the cost structure of good colo but the features/resilience/operational-fl
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by cagenut 15y ago
newrelic google apps (email) github cotendo (cdn)
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by cagenut 15y ago
With that big a monthly AWS bill, I could pretty easily justify my salary and the costs of building out a 4 - 10 rack colo setup. With room leftover for a dba consultant on retainer and a pro-serv budget for ad-hoc stuff.
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by cagenut 15y ago
Here's a bit better article: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/11/wessells-20111124.ht... This is a very early lab result, loooot can still go wrong from here. However 40k cycles is pretty awesome (side note: "everlasting" is an annoy
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by cagenut 15y ago
I get the pitch, I don't get the $800K
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by cagenut 15y ago
They A/B test the headlines too, so all the editors who've been at it for a few months get a real good feel for what headlines work.
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by cagenut 15y ago
Its not technically ironic but certainly amusing that businessinsider's story about akamai was so popular that it crashed their site, which could have been avoided by using akamai (or any cdn).
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by cagenut 15y ago
fta: *McNealy, 56, co-founded Sun in 1984 and was its top executive for 22 years, making him one of the longest-serving CEOs in Silicon Valley history.* he both built it and oversaw its fading
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by cagenut 15y ago
Tim, you gotta do a writeup on the deployment/testing setup.
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by cagenut 15y ago
I want the ATDN part: http://www.atdn.net/network_map.shtml No joke they could make an amazing CDN out of that.
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by cagenut 15y ago
They had made it public they were working on this awhile ago, and IMHO its the main reason behind booting off wikileaks for utter bullshit reasons. When Lieberman's office made that phone call to ask them what their plan was to take the si
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by cagenut 15y ago
Made me think of this video: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6535519/hardly-working-sta... Add "the type-A squares start to get in on it" as bubble-checklist item number umpteen-dozen.
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by cagenut 15y ago
90% no, in that its a very large company and therefore you will deal with very large company issues no matter what. But if I could get in on the RE < C or electric-vehicle stuff, hell yeah, I'd take a pay cut.
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by cagenut 15y ago
They're juvenile because they're juveniles, but all that really means is that this has only just begun.
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by cagenut 15y ago
This is a good thing One of the lessons people seem to have forgotten from the first bubble is that the opening day "pop" is a manufactured scam by the ibanks so that their insider/selected clients can flip some shares for quick buck. Yo
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by cagenut 15y ago
Well, better connecting people's mundane lives than figuring out how to 'financial engineer' something I guess.
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by cagenut 15y ago
Here's a much better article with diagrams and more details: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/05/ssfc-20110526.html This really will be a major step forward if it pans out. Even if it doesn't work so great for cars it could be amazin
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by cagenut 15y ago
Seriously a SYN flood? How 90's. Side affect of running on AWS, you can't use a "real" firewall. Even then don't they use ha-proxy up front? I'm surprised this was an issue.

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