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by chucky_z 6y ago
it's us-west-1! :D we've had a ton of instances fail at once because they had some kind of rack-level failure and a bunch of our EC2s ended up in the same rack. :(
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by chucky_z 6y ago
I think if you use open source stuff you will find a lot of Avro, like Debezium. Supporting both so you get best of in-house and external makes sense to me.
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by chucky_z 6y ago
On that note, the grpc spec specifically calls for load balancing that doesn't actually do the proxying, but instead hands out assignments, with the server passing it's current load back to the load balancer service. it sounds li
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by chucky_z 6y ago
The operational overhead shifts to more API stuff, so people can write 100 lines of code instead of modifying 1 line of config, it feels like. This is never going to end as more things shift towards being core APIs that allow you to write c
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by chucky_z 6y ago
I've gotten servers from Hivelocity in the past, they like(d) to offer servers with the "enterprise" equivalent of these CPUs, I'm not sure if Intel still sells them, but there used to be a "xeon i3" basically,
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Influx is so good for hobby-level projects. So good!! For serious applications, it doesn't cut it. Trying to do more than a few TB a day is a waste of time outside of enterprise, which ain't cheap. I plopped VictoriaMetrics in
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by chucky_z 6y ago
this is a pretty common use-case for ci/cd tools. azure devops, jenkins, concourse, drone, gitlab, ... also a lot of etl tooling has this stuff (airflow comes to mind immediately) there's also nomad which is easy to run and can sc
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Symfony
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by chucky_z 6y ago
if your company has a position called 'devops engineer,' they've failed as an entire company to resemble anything called devops.
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by chucky_z 6y ago
It's really slick, and provides a client/server architecture with a bunch of extra security on-top. It generates 1:1 certificates between the api layer and the clients, using a full auth service. I deployed it at a previous posit
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Literally anything. If I see someone with a lot of relevant forked repos, even if they're old, I take that as interest and something I can bring up. If I see a repo of rcfiles I know they care about working efficiently. If I see aban
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by chucky_z 6y ago
FWIW, as a hiring manager, if someone has a portfolio I definitely judge them on it, and if it's good it allows me to bypass huge swaths of technical/coding interview stuff and dig much deeper into where/what I want. I alway
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by chucky_z 6y ago
The fact that, as a user, I can't tell a browser "hey, this internal PKI that you already don't trust, just go ahead and trust it no matter what because I tell you to," feels bad.
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by chucky_z 6y ago
I’m so torn here. Personally I like this a lot and think it will really help enforce good practices and allow easier things like root/int key rotation. Professionally it sucks, as there are a ton of valid use cases for real certs in
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by chucky_z 6y ago
IIRC, a 12oz coffee is ~$2. The equivalent 12oz coffee milkshake is ~$4. Guess which one is more popular? That said, I do actually buy the non-sugary drinks because they're cheaper. I tend to buy Blonde Americanos to get the lowest bi
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by chucky_z 6y ago
I get a bit frustrated by this view solely because internally, folks aren't _just_ your customer. They are your co-workers, and the same thing for them. Their co-workers are providing the platform. The extra bit of empathy makes all
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Because it’s cool! Also it’s extremely open source, has a cool tech blog, and feels like it has a lot of momentum
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Awesome! For anyone who finds this through search, here's that whitepaper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3342195.3387524 I don't think it helps at a server level, but it does provide me some i
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by chucky_z 6y ago
The latter. We have a lot of metrics and data, but I need something consistent beyond "this box looks like its using a lot of CPU/memory/IO." Our workloads are dynamic enough that a box using 20% or 80% are both within
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Ask HN: How do you detect oddly performing machines in a large cluster?
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Please make an attempt to understand a technology before making comments like this. Nomad has no requirement to store kv's, nor secrets. It's an entirely separate thing from Consul and Vault. It simply integrates with Consul,
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by chucky_z 6y ago
This is what Nomad is though... It works without their other products and also natively integrates into them. Deploying Vault, Consul, and Nomad gives you a very nice experience. Also with Consul 1.8 and Nomad 0.11 you’ll get Consul Conne
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by chucky_z 6y ago
There's been a ton of improvements over time. That doesn't make it any less foot-gun-y, unfortunately. I had the exact same problem with Kubernetes (and even just straight up containers), I just want to make sure folks are extrem
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Yes, you know that small organization, Linux; who manages cgroups that everything else calls through with. I have only tested it with Docker, again, that company Moby with this very little used software. How dare their core systems have any
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Preemption is coming in the next release in OSS :)
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Cloudflare, make sure you upgrade to 0.11.3, the new scheduling behavior is awesome for large clusters. Also a massive warning to anyone wanting to use hard cpu limits and cgroups (they do work in nomad it’s just not trivial), they don’t wo
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Oh, interesting. What's the core difference between Tickscript and Flux? Was Tickscript what Kapacitor used for InfluxDB 1.7?
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Vault is great for just a PKI, even if you aren't using it for anything else. There are some tools that just do PKI, but Vault works a real treat at it. Any Terraform backend that supports encryption + Terraform + Vault gives you s
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by chucky_z 6y ago
I'd like to followup on this and say InfluxDB is fantastic -- with the caveat that you know exactly what you want, and use it with that in mind. It's great at storing some metrics with high volume, but I've found the OSS ver
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by chucky_z 6y ago
Nomad + Consul is the happy path. Adding Vault into the mix is nice, but not required. Consul by itself is the game-changer. Even in k8s it's a game-changer. It solves so many questions in an elegant way. "How do I find and rea

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