giltotherescue

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by giltotherescue 7y ago
Glad to see you guys continually innovating. Wish you the best of luck. -Gil from Gilded
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The Collaborative Tale Behind the World’s First Mass Produced Electric Guitar(collabfinder.tumblr.com)
1 points by giltotherescue 13y ago|0 comments
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The Antimatter of Success(medium.com)
2 points by giltotherescue 13y ago|0 comments
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
What about all the copyright holders, such as Getty Images, that are circling the water, waiting for Pinterest to start making money so the rights holders can charge licensing fees? Any business model they come up with has to factor in the
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
I implemented exactly this for our application about a year ago. We managed to speed up the average backend response times for the entire site by about 500ms. Unfortunately, the cost of the edge servers + the anycast routing tech from a thi
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
Logicworks in New Jersey/NYC and Peer1 in Atlanta.
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
I also use SQS from a non-EC2 app server environment. It's one less service I have to administer, and in my case the latency isn't an issue.
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
There's nothing stopping you from using a traditional CDN vendor as an application CDN. I spoke to the folks at Edgecast about this a year or two ago, and they didn't have a problem with it. However, it sounds like Amazon made some specific
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
I second this
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
Last time I checked, at that volume one could get much better pricing by committing to a yearly contract through a traditional CDN vendor.
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
I encountered these types of problems on Cloudfront-powered sites all the time when I lived in Colorado. I frequently had issues using GitHub, Basecamp, etc. Only solution was to wait a few minutes and try again.
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
I'm glad that you offer the badge option, but I wish that was in addition to a $30-80/mo plan that I could pay for with cash...
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
It's exactly the same amount of effort to setup. I use both GA (for pageview tracking) and Mixpanel (for engagement tracking). Mixpanel's funnel tracker is more robust, and there is no GA equivalent to Mixpanel's retention analysis. Plus, M
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by giltotherescue 14y ago
http://cloudflare.com http://mixpanel.com http://pingdom.com http://newrelic.com http://mailgun.org
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AWS is Not the prime enabler of Scalability(techgil.tumblr.com)
2 points by giltotherescue 14y ago|0 comments
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Five Things To Love (and Hate) About CloudFlare(techgil.tumblr.com)
4 points by giltotherescue 14y ago|0 comments
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by giltotherescue 15y ago
Yawn
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by giltotherescue 15y ago
Your salary expectations are awful high for a telecommute position. Next time you could consider letting them warm up to you before throwing that out. Also, how can you have expertise in "a bunch of other stuff"? The point of expertise is f
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by giltotherescue 15y ago
I run a site which triggers POSTs via Ajax for visitor tracking. We explicitly disable crawling of the Ajax directory via robots.txt and have not observed Googlebot crawling these URLs. Strange that Googlebot behaves differently for you.
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by giltotherescue 15y ago
I wasn't suggesting that taking a cold shower makes you like a Navy SEAL. I was suggesting that if you were training to become one, taking cold showers would help you prepare for the shock of BUD/S training. But I guess you couldn't be both
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by giltotherescue 15y ago
Another method is to pause for an exponential delay after each failed attempt. This makes it prohibitively slow to brute force.
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by giltotherescue 15y ago
Yes! Thank you for putting this together.
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How a data corruption problem made me more confident about Cassandra(gilhildebrand.com)
19 points by giltotherescue 16y ago|1 comments
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by giltotherescue 16y ago
They use Amazon SimpleDB as their primary database.
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by giltotherescue 18y ago
And here we have an architecture astronaut. Once you get out of academia and start programming in the real world, you'll realize that there are other considerations for determining which programming language to use besides a robust feature
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by giltotherescue 18y ago
I maintain a site that receives over half a million pageviews per day, not including API requests of XML feeds. This site runs on 3 medium range commodity web servers and 2 database servers, and there's plenty of capacity left. Don't let th
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Ace Your Next Meeting: Craft an Elevator Pitch(gilhildebrand.com)
1 points by giltotherescue 18y ago|0 comments
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The True Genius (and Danger) of Google App Engine(gilhildebrand.com)
3 points by giltotherescue 18y ago|0 comments
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Show Your Human Side(gilhildebrand.com)
1 points by giltotherescue 18y ago|0 comments