csmuk

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by csmuk 13y ago
Why? POWER is really nice. I mean properly awesome, but no one seems to use it these days. Even our ex-AIX financial orgs have gone x64 and a lot to windows...
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by csmuk 13y ago
That's what I thought when we tried to move one of our projects to CMake. By the second platform, we'd given up. Not only that, some of it doesn't actually work properly and it refuses to compile itself on HPUX.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I don't build for windows so that's moot for me. Well I do but not C. I've quite happily built makefiles that work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and HP/UX that aren't fragile or laborious. It just takes appropriate kno
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by csmuk 13y ago
Another dependency here but I use APR pools. You can keep your allocations to a defined scope then which makes free'ing easy and you can also have some guarantees inside the pool that it will have some bytes to give you. Less error che
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by csmuk 13y ago
I think in this case, unlike say a network server, failures are not the end of the world. Those particular checks are quite useful though when it comes to debugging as working out where that pointer got shafted isn't all that easy once
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by csmuk 13y ago
This. CMake is another barrier to entry. what happened to a nice simple makefile? Been using just standard makefiles for literally 20 years. The only thing I do is put a checkdeps dependency on which tests for the presence of dependencies,
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by csmuk 13y ago
I think the site is good. I have no problem with the technology ultimately but to put a fine point on it, I'm not paying the government lots of money to invent their own infrastructure components when perfectly good ones exist already.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Nearly 4 duck houses though!
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by csmuk 13y ago
That made me laugh and I've upvoted you for that, but no, it's serious. Various governments are already throwing money at Open Document Foundation (France, Germany come to mind) to support LibreOffice so why shouldn't we thro
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by csmuk 13y ago
Possible. Some good thoughts there.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Allowing non-technical users access to routes is a disaster waiting to happen. The whole thing should have a QA process around it. I'm genuinely surprised it's being run like this. The biggest point of failure is always humans and
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by csmuk 13y ago
None of them although close. You don't have to take my opinion seriously. I could work in Tescos and be splurging false information out on the Internet. I could be an elaborate hoax! However, please don't write off people as &quot
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by csmuk 13y ago
I don't need to add leverage to the conversation by mentioning my employer. My arguments have merit on their own.
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by csmuk 13y ago
It will come with proportionately less cost initially and over time though which is the issue. Efficiency is a major problem in government. Government should have a low financial impact on society where possible. A government entering a mar
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by csmuk 13y ago
That's a silly argument. I'd rather not be pissing an estimated £6400+maintenance up the wall on a project which could have been realised with off the shelf technology. Just because the organisation uses open-source software doesn
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by csmuk 13y ago
No we're just handling that 60 million people's mortgages, insurance, financial status, financial history, legal and personal data instead...
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by csmuk 13y ago
2 front end nginx boxes s01-s02: 1. take s01 out of pool. 2. migrate config on s01 to new config. 3. put s01 back in pool. 4. take s02 out of pool 5. migrate config on s02 to new config. 6. put s02 back in pool. Ansible can handle this quit
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by csmuk 13y ago
Oh definitely agree. I'm not dissing the site itself which is marvellous so far, but the technology churn is very concerning.
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by csmuk 13y ago
No but updating static routes via puppet/ansible and reloading is a piece of piss. If your site is volatile enough that the routing needs to change that often then there is something wrong either with your information architecture or
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by csmuk 13y ago
Actually they're using the wrong tools for the job because they're having to rewrite bits regularly in different tech. There is obviously no evaluation taking place. Establishing technical standards and homogenity is important on
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by csmuk 13y ago
They're incredibly easy to build. I notice you use puppet. That's enough tooling to push configuration out and restart services for nginx or apache+mod_proxy. You can break configuration out into separate files per agency if you n
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by csmuk 13y ago
I actually read that and thought nginx/mod_proxy. Looks like they didn't actually try it or know about it which is worrying. Either that or it was more interesting to do it in Go which is not a valid reason in a taxpayer funded si
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by csmuk 13y ago
Agree entirely there! However it doesn't excuse people working on a web site funded by the taxpayer using it as a technology playground.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yep I understand that. We publish several huge legacy applications, several huge new applications, several integrations, public web site, documentation, online support. A mere 80-100 million HTTP transactions a day. Not once have we built s
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by csmuk 13y ago
Not impressed. I have nothing against Go (in fact I like it) but they seem to have built GOV.UK with every damn bit of technology there is available. I've seen Varnish, Go, Ruby, Python, Scala, Java, Mongo, MySQL, nginx, rails, sinatra
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yeah I noticed that on 9.1. I tried it on one of our "monster" 48 core boxes and it was pretty good with some sysctl poking. Waiting for 10 before serious evaluation starts when pkgng is default. That and freebsd-update pretty muc
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by csmuk 13y ago
Agree entirely but that would go against the state's current policy of limiting press freedom. They're already issuing warnings and roughing up editors. One step forward and we're there. To be honest we won't know if we&
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by csmuk 13y ago
Never had a CPU go on me. RAM yes, PROMs yes, CMOS batteries yes, PSUs yes, drives yes. They're probably the most reliable bit of a computer.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Before the revelations appeared, these companies did little to fight it. There are ways of acting against it proactively without breaking any NDA's and laws. Only when confidence in their business declines because people found out exac
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by csmuk 13y ago
Spot on. This and APR make stuff a lot simpler. Have used pool allocation on a number of projects.

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