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AWS App Mesh – service mesh networking across ECS, EC2, EKS, Fargate, K8S(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by drewda 8y ago|1 comments
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by drewda 8y ago
A recent point of comparison: Walmart quietly eliminating the "greeter" position, which is often filled by people with physical or developmental disabilities: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/696718872
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by drewda 8y ago
Just like it's useful to have both SQLite and Postgres available for smaller and larger data projects (and Spatialite and PostGIS for smaller/larger geo-data projects), it could be great to have Redis and Kafka for smaller and lar
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Racing Against China, U.S. Reveals Details of $500M Supercomputer(nytimes.com)
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by drewda 8y ago
I've recently been having good luck with this VS Code extension that adds a Postgres tab for exploring schemas and running queries: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ckolkman...
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Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Dies at 58(nytimes.com)
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by drewda 8y ago
Back around 2009 or 2010, my roommates and I put a spare room in our Berkeley place on Airbnb. One night the Airbnb CEO booked the room and came over for the night. Sounds like the company had grown large enough that the co-founders had to
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by drewda 8y ago
Yeah, budgets are, in part, motivating the push for open access journals. But I don't think university-wide budgets are the most relevant ones to consider. If you look more closely at university _library_ budgets, you'll usually s
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by drewda 8y ago
For more stories like this, I highly recommend "Never Lost Again" by Bill Kilday: https://www.powells.com/book/never-lost-again-the-google-map... Kilday was a PM and marketing manager at Keyhole, the startup
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by drewda 8y ago
Summary: Xerox PARC created the first and best personal computer, but didn't release to the market early/often/cheaply enough to learn and dominate. Waymo is similarly perfecting a ride-share service across all of Phoenix at
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by drewda 8y ago
Great, I can see lots of potential.
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by drewda 8y ago
What do you all think of Cloud Native Buildpacks?* A slightly different approach to solving some of the same problems of handling dependency and security updates off-cycle from application updates. * https://buildpacks.io/
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by drewda 8y ago
This is kinda Amazon offering their own version of Eucalyptus, just 10 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)
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Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK with Long-Term Support(aws.amazon.com)
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by drewda 8y ago
We've had much success with Argo workflows over the past months. Among other projects, we use it to generate city-sized extracts of mapping data from the OpenStreetMap planet. Blog post at https://www.interline.io/blog&
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by drewda 8y ago
The Creamery is right across the street from Caltrain and MUNI. Why drive? Plus, a $3 beer on their patio is a fine way to pass the time to wait until the next train.
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by drewda 8y ago
> "The company must also settle some internal feuds. Some of the principles that Fuchsia creators are pursuing have already run up against Google’s business model. Google’s ads business relies on an ability to target users based on
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by drewda 8y ago
You can find an assortment of Docker containers that have a mix of related packages and dependencies at https://github.com/geodocker
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by drewda 8y ago
Happy to answer any questions about how we use Argo ( https://github.com/argoproj/argo ), PlanetUtils ( https://github.com/interline-io/planetutils ), or any of the other open-source "ingredients
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Producing 200 OpenStreetMap extracts in 35 minutes using Kubernetes and Argo(interline.io)
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by drewda 8y ago
But on the plus side: - easily switch between multiple Google accounts (vs. the utter pain of using multiple AWS accounts) - the "cloud shell" is nice - switch from wizard point-and-click to generate the equivalent SDK CLI command
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by drewda 8y ago
Would have been nice if they actually linked to that original mashup: http://www.housingmaps.com/ (Gosh, it's been a while since I've heard the term "mashup" :)
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by drewda 8y ago
This was originally created at UC Santa Barbara: https://tia.ucsb.edu/about-tia/success-stories/shadowmaps/ I've seen talks at academic conferences about the techniques over the years, but there's j
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by drewda 9y ago
It's not a full equivalent to Stripe Atlas for LLCs, but you'll find a nice range of "a la carte" options for forming and running LLCs from this registered agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/
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by drewda 9y ago
Good to know. Thanks.
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by drewda 9y ago
I see that the logs and analysis will be open to everyone. I guess that's equivalent to using Travis, CircleCI, etc. on their free/open tiers. But API logs and analysis like Skylight performs can have much more unpredictable and s
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by drewda 9y ago
Interesting, I hadn't realized it's that scale. And a good reason for California to invest in high-speed rail, in my own opinion.
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by drewda 9y ago
Agreed! That's a big reason why I've enjoyed working with colleagues on a fully "open" approach to mapping software and data at Mapzen: https://mapzen.com/blog/our-magna-carto/ We've mad
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by drewda 9y ago
Related: I recently came across the "Google AIY Voice Kit for Raspberry Pi" in the Adafruit store: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3602 That, as well as this new "AWS DeepLens", look like interesti
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by drewda 9y ago
I use Disconnect in both Chrome and Firefox: https://disconnect.me/ It blocks scripts for analytics, social sharing, etc. and gives a simple UI for reenabling any (in those situations when someone wrote their JavaScript suc

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