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by dastbe 7y ago
I think you're being too generous to Twitter's competitors. For example, Facebook was incorrectly computing their video metrics for years, resulting in inflated watch times https://www.wsj.com/articles/faceboo
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by dastbe 7y ago
(I work at AWS) One of the more interesting things I've observed over the past few years is the incremental effort to get AWS teams "lower in the stack" onto native AWS offerings. This makes sense: the less parallel or underl
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by dastbe 7y ago
The OP was asking what the price is when they do have an enterprise use case or their scale grows beyond your defined constraints.
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by dastbe 7y ago
OpenJDK is not stuck on 8, and is where all language development goes.
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by dastbe 7y ago
I think OP means Amazon’s discount on AWS. Many customers on AWS have contracts that guarantee discounted rates given sufficient volume. People have commented on hn about negotiating them, and you can see some examples from recent IPO filin
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by dastbe 7y ago
> Blaze (at Google) is also not just a build system, but also an interface to a much larger distributed build and test backend, which lets you rebuild everything from the kernel upwards in seconds (by caching petabytes of build products
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by dastbe 7y ago
So bazel and brazil solve similar but very distinct problems. bazel is solving the problem of fast, repeatable, "bulletproof" builds for (very large) monolithic repos, whereas brazil is solving for fast, repeatable, "bulletpr
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by dastbe 7y ago
though in some cases I can think of, the "legacy" service is now just a facade over an AWS service.
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by dastbe 7y ago
On &mut a vs. mut &a, when read literally left to right the former is “a reference to a mutable a” and the latter is “a mutable reference to a”
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The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use (2017) [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
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by dastbe 7y ago
(I work at AWS, but I'm commenting very generally) Looking at many outages, the root cause is usually novel and the result of a combination of known and unknown changes to a system and its context. This includes your typical "oper
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by dastbe 7y ago
(I work at AWS) Have you seen https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container... ? The team here is working to make firecracker as seamless as possible for running containerized applications in a microvm.
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by dastbe 8y ago
(App Mesh SDE) We chose to use some common configuration for deploying Envoy to drive consistency there, but App Mesh itself is a custom control plane for managing Envoy.
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by dastbe 8y ago
Rebadging is when you primarily change the branding of a product (and some customizable aspects of it). Sometimes these are white label products whose entire purpose is to be rebadged, other times it’s another companies offering.
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by dastbe 8y ago
> All the time, but it's not annoying because I don't care about being in front of everyone - I have left for my destination with ample time to make my appointment. I'm on the road to reach a destination, not to win the ra
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by dastbe 8y ago
Ruggedized is a real word, though. Googling it at the moment gets you definitions and links to laptops, tents, hardware firewalls, etc.
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by dastbe 8y ago
(AWS employee) That’s not how these numbers fit together. Using rekognition, you would create a collection of faces based off your image corpus and then ask the service if a provided image has a match against anything in your collection. Lo
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by dastbe 8y ago
Is it possible that you’re only seeing the kids with ASD severe enough to merit working with your mother?
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by dastbe 8y ago
(aws employee) The distinction I've heard and make (regardless of serverless being the right term) is that these infrastructure services expose their control plane and data plane without tying you to the concept of a particular machine
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by dastbe 8y ago
(I do work for AWS) I was confused by the naming convention at launch, but a secret is a set of key value pairs and not a single key value pair.
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by dastbe 8y ago
(I work at Amazon) I think you could argue Walmart was primarily competing with mom and pop stores a decade ago (though really other large supermarkets at that point), but they are most certainly competing with amazon today.
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by dastbe 8y ago
Isn't it weird to have references to some AWS services, but not CloudWatch Events itself? To me that would be the service that makes the most sense as a comparison point.
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by dastbe 8y ago
Rainbow tables are actually a slight revision on this, because the merging of paths is a bad thing as it leads to false positives. Specifically, I can detect that my hash eventually leads to the end of a chain, but it may very well be that
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by dastbe 9y ago
So not sure what you define as experienced (2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years?) but a 5 years of experience SDE at Amazon may make that in salary, but their total compensation will be quite a bit more than that.
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by dastbe 9y ago
It appears not since 2011, according to the information sources you would have looked through.
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by dastbe 9y ago
for scale, there are estimated to be 326 million US citizens and 126 million US households.
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by dastbe 9y ago
Simplifying the tax code is a win for everyone including the IRS because it will drastically cut down on the number of people who accidentally get taxes wrong, but you still need some entity to audit for fraud.
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by dastbe 9y ago
Heroku was targeting a much different audience from what AWS was targeting back in 2007 (yes everyone, its been over a decade!). AWS has gradually crawled up the stack over the past few years, but I'd still say Heroku is targeting cust
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by dastbe 9y ago
I think everybody is doing this? Looking through the comments and its nothing but people talking about SDEs and other well compensated employees, when the crux of this article and others like it are the issues faced by warehouse workers, wh
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by dastbe 9y ago
This argument that Java was dying before the arrival of Android is super suspect. At best, you could say java was stuck in a rut between 6 and 7 (similar to c++ up until c++11), but it’s industry usage had not waned.

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