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by cagenut 16y ago
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-shudders-at-large-bl...
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by cagenut 16y ago
For extra context, here's a podcast where Jeremy describes the rest of the craigslist cluster architecture: http://perseus.franklins.net/hanselminutes_0199.mp3 Thank you for taking the effort to share this stuff, I've learned so much from
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by cagenut 16y ago
Scaling out vs. scaling up is the false dilemma, the answer is both at the same time solving the bottlenecks you have using the time and resources you have. The "vast majority" of applications do not map well to an n-wide map-reduce-esque
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by cagenut 16y ago
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/02/21/death-match-e... tl;dr - "price is in the same order of magnitude, but performance is two to three orders of magnitude different."
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by cagenut 16y ago
This is cool and all, but its part of an overall trend about aws/ec2 thats starting to get on my nerves. They're spending their time and resources working their way up the stack instead of improving the lower layers of the stack for which
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by cagenut 16y ago
thats because they stick in the fine print "once a month scheduled half hour outages don't count, also anything under 5 minutes doesn't count"
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by cagenut 16y ago
I admit to substantial ignorance here, but can anyone who's using fabric, or for whom these patches to fabric are an important improvement, speak to any kind of pro/con comparison they did with func ( https://fedorahosted.org/func/ )? I've
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by cagenut 16y ago
This is not a layer 7 problem, its a layer 1 problem. Get your ISP to provide unfiltered nearly-synchronous connectivity with pervasive ipv6 (no-nat) and then we can start getting rid of the client server model.
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by cagenut 16y ago
I remember him spamming my paintball newsgroup in 97. Even then it was considered newbish to acknowledge him.
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by cagenut 16y ago
Here is the secret to getting the whole nginx/fastcgi vs. apache/mod_php thing to click in your head. The trick is to think of it in two layers. The "spoonfeeding" layer and the "worker" layer. In nginx/fastcgi, nginx is the spoonfeeding
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by cagenut 16y ago
offshoring has worked wonderfully for my employer, details in an older comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1879786 like literally everything else, the trick is doing it right
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by cagenut 16y ago
friendfeed was built in 08, before amazon had released EBS as a feature. there is no way in hell the instance-store disk i/o would have kept up with friendfeeds mysql demands (you may remember the post Bret himself wrote on their nifty app
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by cagenut 16y ago
"the opposite of anything ayn rand says" -me
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by cagenut 16y ago
The core difference between the platforms was that wordpress was designed for any schmuck to follow a howto, while MT was designed to sell the real product, professional services billable hours. There were soooo many things about MT tha
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by cagenut 16y ago
Hahaha, she gives huffpo guff for misleading headlines, in an article with a misleading headline.
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by cagenut 16y ago
You can get away with following oral(blog)-history scaling lore at that low end, but before you scale much further the most important thing by far is to be more metrics and measurement oriented. The most basic one to start with is average
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by cagenut 16y ago
comscore's numbers are notoriously lower than quantcast/google-analytics, but usually about half not 1/14th... so somethings clearly wrong there too.
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by cagenut 16y ago
pageviews aren't what matter anymore, UV/month is. comscore's january numbers just came out this morning. Wired droped 38% from 9.4 to 5.9 million. In one month. Hopefully for their sake thats a javascript screw up. reddit rose 11% from
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by cagenut 16y ago
In 2001 a couple of my roomates where interns at IBM and worked on "grid" projects (which is a lost cousin of the cloud/utility/aaS family). One of them remarked how every time they had a meeting with multiple suits, and someone had to wh
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by cagenut 16y ago
How to set MaxClients: 1 - restart apache 2 - run a handful of typical requests through it a few times (or just leave it live for a minute) 3 - look for the largest few workers by the RSS column in "ps" 4 - average that, divide it into the
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by cagenut 16y ago
I particularly liked the first line on slide 48 "We require operational reporting on all services" feels like everyone learns that the hard way, twitter just did it much more visibly
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by cagenut 16y ago
graphic designer's delight website, check. PDF press release, check. hi-res logo graphics, check. custom framework, check. hacker news post, check. platform details about the platform product of a platform service provider company...
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by cagenut 16y ago
Is there any way to see which 57 people voted up this article? Can anyone who did so please explain how it made it past any of their b.s. filters? I read HN for the high quality content its curation system bubbles up, an article like this
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by cagenut 16y ago
sorry no, all I can say is watch a lot of msnbc/cnbc/discovery-channel at terrible odd hours or weekends, but thats just about the worst advice ever
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by cagenut 16y ago
Whole drive encryption. I've seen docu-drama's where they actually break in when they know the suspect has gotten up to go the the bathroom/kitchen so that he can't reboot the computer. Then, like all things with a shred of reasonableness
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by cagenut 16y ago
no you don't, you run an mta bound to 127.0.0.1 and smarthost out sendgrid/whatever-your-outbound-relay-is. this has been standard practice forever. if you quiz 10 sysadmins to name a single config variable for sendmail, most will answer
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by cagenut 16y ago
As a sysadmin these kinds of articles have a sort of duality to them. On the one hand they're insulting. The author is clearly wholesale ignorant of the vast majority of sysadmin roles and responsibilities (and why companies need them) and
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by cagenut 16y ago
every day we take another step toward idiocracy
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by cagenut 16y ago
Ganeti?
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by cagenut 16y ago
Its interesting how Rands and Joel agree on the basic quiet/dark/cave/hoodie/headphones "zone" construct, and yet nearly every startup I've visited or seen office pictures of on their website insists on a faux-egalitarian setup where everyo

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