dmicher

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AI GTM Assistant: You Dont Need GTM Engineers for Your Company to Go to Market(apollo.io)
2 points by dmicher 1y ago|1 comments
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by dmicher 1y ago
Everyone is building AI capabilities these days and trying to release them super fast. Apollo.io we prioritized Jobs To Be Done and quality vs Hype. So, we are bringing first to the market Apollo GTM AI Assistant that just works. Tasks that
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Improving Observability of Golang Services(flow.com)
14 points by dmicher 4y ago|4 comments
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by dmicher 4y ago
This blog post is aimed at GoLang developers who are looking to improve the observability of their services. It skips the basics and jumps straight to advanced topics, such as asynchronous structured logging, metrics with exemplars, tracing
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A lot of insights on how Dropbox is making data centers 100% carbon neutral(dropbox.tech)
15 points by dmicher 5y ago|1 comments
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Dropbox upload speed: Windows TCP stack and network reordering(dropbox.tech)
10 points by dmicher 5y ago|1 comments
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by dmicher 5y ago
Here is a great example of how Dropbox and Microsoft engineering collaboration lead to the great outcome: boosting upload speed for both Dropbox and Windows Server.
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Dropbox sets sustainability goals and renewable energy(blog.dropbox.com)
3 points by dmicher 6y ago|1 comments
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by dmicher 6y ago
As a business that delivers our products through a global network of data centers, we are committed to sourcing the energy for our operations from 100% renewable energy sources.
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by dmicher 6y ago
Shipping cycle is one of the reasons mentioned. And as you can imaging, unfortunately, contributing to Nginx open source is not an easy thing (but they have a great product for sure). If HAProxy is different in terms of contributions - it i
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by dmicher 6y ago
There are different paths companies take. Some buy and it really works for them and their business, since overhead is small and everything just works. The other set of companies have more sophisticated requirements: when they want to have f
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by dmicher 6y ago
I value your opinion.
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by dmicher 6y ago
I'm not declaring that C++ is better for everything. In our case it is better because it makes this part of the infrastructure more sustainable: there are more engineers who can code well in C++ vs C in our company and industry overall
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by dmicher 6y ago
When we are comparing C, Lua (Nginx) and C++ (Envoy). Yes C++ is better :).
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by dmicher 6y ago
Sadly, it would probably be as hard to maintain as an opensource version. We really want to have access to the code to make sure we can fix, troubleshoot it, understand it fast... Things that may've help: -- Configuration definition (e
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by dmicher 6y ago
It may actually become a trend. For well known reasons: - Community - Nginx served us well for almost a decade. But it didn’t adapt to current development best-practices - Operationally Nginx was quite expensive to maintain - C++ - Observab
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by dmicher 6y ago
I know some people might find it a little controversial, but I’m super excited about our load balancing future and that we probably have the biggest Envoy deployment in the world now. When we moved most of Dropbox traffic to Envoy, we had t
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by dmicher 7y ago
Spoiler alert: BBRv2 is slower than BBRv1 but that’s a good thing.
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Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox(blogs.dropbox.com)
94 points by dmicher 8y ago|22 comments
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by dmicher 8y ago
They dont store customer data at the Edge at all (only network optimizations for data going from user to the data center).
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by dmicher 8y ago
Looks like TLS 1.3 adoption is growing across service providers...