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by dastbe 1y ago
Google at least at the time had a vested interest in making external blaze a thing AND the options in open source were just "not as good". While buck2 is IMO technically better, I don't think there's a compelling reason
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by dastbe 1y ago
As a person who probably has one of the best vantage points on this, how was Apple to get apfs out so quickly compared to filesystems in Linux like bcachefs?
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by dastbe 1y ago
asking since ben does take a look here... will revamped litestream have a solution for ACKing only when transactions have durably committed to storage?
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by dastbe 1y ago
s3 buckets being public by default was stopped 2 or 3 years ago: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-s3... longer if using the console
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by dastbe 1y ago
Did you mean L5 and above got more work done with WFH? Since the next sentence implies that it was the fresh engineers who were most impacted by WFH.
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by dastbe 1y ago
Sure, but that's not what the parent said.
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by dastbe 1y ago
? s3: https://aws.amazon.com/pm/serv-s3 s3 express: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/ cross-region replication: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Amaz
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by dastbe 2y ago
720 degrees is spinning in circles and ending up pointed right back where you started.
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by dastbe 2y ago
there's also a significant amount of automation in place these days to sass you in the right direction, i.e. * focusing on resources and operations on resources * using consistent and expected naming schemes, pluralization, etc. it als
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by dastbe 2y ago
with the open sourcing of smithy and the raw s3 specs, open source should be able to build clients in just about any language they care about while keeping relatively high fidelity with implementations s3 releases.
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by dastbe 2y ago
all the other competitors are unserious and/or treating it as a money siphoning scheme. in particular, the public contractors siphoning money from the government and blue origin siphoning money from bezos. It would be surprising if spa
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by dastbe 2y ago
Eggs are definitely a grey area for vegetarians, to the point where vegetarians will describe ovo-lacto-vegetarians where they are ok with eggs (and animal milk) whereas others aren't.
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by dastbe 2y ago
How much of this was how bazel works vs. starlark itself? I find the starlark language is very simple (though inconsistent between the various implementations in bazel, go, and rust) but it takes a bit to understand how the magic between de
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by dastbe 2y ago
in mba brain, but hosting providers want as much utilization because it means people are going to use more over time.
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by dastbe 2y ago
Part of the problem with pancreatic cancer is detection. Most people (like my dad) are only catching it when it is stage 3 or stage 4 and you're already way on the wrong side of the odds. If you catch pancreatic cancer as stage 1 or st
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by dastbe 2y ago
whiles taylor swift has a natural monopoly on taylor swift, you can always have more venues. and each of those venues could compete on price/margin to court taylor swift and all of the other artists. and for venues that want to compete
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by dastbe 2y ago
it's (1-p)^24^10, where p is drive failure rate per year (assuming it doesn't go up over time). so at 1% that's about 9% or a 1/10 chance of this result. Not exactly great, but not impossible. the backblaze rates are all
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by dastbe 2y ago
unless something has changed in the past year, fargate still runs each task in a single use ec2 vm with no further isolation around containers in a task.
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by dastbe 2y ago
my issue with grpc is that looking at https://github.com/grpc/proposal all of the proposals are XDS-related, and its not clear to me why XDS is being so heavily pushed outside of potential GCP interests re: traffic dir
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by dastbe 2y ago
> If you revoke a priv, things stop working immediately. for a human-scaled definition of immediately, perhaps, but IAM updates are eventually consistent across the globe.
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by dastbe 2y ago
If you truly need that kind of perf (and at Amazon, we had plenty of dev desktops running on ebs without that kind of performance) then you should really opt for an instance type with local storage.
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by dastbe 2y ago
> Why would anyone contribute to a commercial product unless they're getting paid to do so. Because they'd be getting paid to do it for their company? I know of a few customers who, if they could, would have their employees con
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by dastbe 2y ago
What you're saying sounds the same as "The output of one service is the input to another, so the label isn't really clarifying anything". There's plenty of value in breaking apart all of the interactions between var
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by dastbe 2y ago
goals. taking a different example, you might have a goal to lower outage minutes by 50%, so your output metric is “outage minutes”. in order to change the output, you need to identify what projects/mechanisms you can use to change the
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by dastbe 2y ago
the US already pays for 2+ aws region for cia/dod. why not pay for a region that is only available to researchers?
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by dastbe 2y ago
is there any active work on an oss storage backend? any blockers in the jujutsu codebase to starting one?
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by dastbe 2y ago
at least in grpc-java, we've ran into a number of issues with breaking changes that are incredibly subtle. For example, they changed the behavior of the DNS NameResolver to not periodically re-resolve endpoints. This meant that if your
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by dastbe 3y ago
? both of these things are available in openjdk distributions
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by dastbe 3y ago
the switch to dot aws is meant to long-term decouple aws api endpoints from a domain that is also used for a bunch of other stuff, like marketing websites and docs. of course, like all aws things they have no consistency over adoption. as f
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by dastbe 3y ago
dude pretty clearly got his cheeks clapped by everyone around him, presumably including the board/vcs who invest in carta.

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