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by heipei 6y ago
Or if you need to egress a lot of data to the Internet. Or send a lot of data between different AZs. Or between Regions. Or anywhere really. Plus now you have to get a PhD in AWS Billing first: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig&
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by heipei 6y ago
Exactly. Add to that that good sales people will build up a lot of "soft" knowledge about the orgs they will be selling to, like: When does their fiscal year start, what's their budgeting timeline, who has purchasing authorit
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by heipei 6y ago
This is the first time I supported anyone on Patreon or pledged to any crowdfunded effort for that matter. I have been using a 2014 rMBP with Linux for the past six years, and while things haven't been perfect it was still the best com
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by heipei 6y ago
Yeah, if they ever managed to expand to a US datacenter they would take a huge bite out of the established hosters there. But, knowing US labor costs, they simply might not be able to do so at their current prices. On the other hand, energy
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by heipei 6y ago
True, and I don't think they expect models that are superior to their own, I'd look at this as a hiring / marketing tool. Plus, even if you had a model that from a pure engineering standpoint was able to match Jane Street&#x2
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by heipei 6y ago
Kind of hijacking this conversation, but is there a service-mesh-like tool that allows reverse TCP tunneling via a central gateway server, kind of like services like ngrok / localtunnel just with all the bells and whistles of a modern
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by heipei 6y ago
The thing is that if you don't use any of the proprietary services offered by the bigger players they look at lot less appealing. AWS with just EC2 is one expensive-ass server provider with murderous rates for egress traffic.
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by heipei 6y ago
I want to see the kind of R&D Amazon has to do to bring down their insane egress prices ;)
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by heipei 6y ago
The problem in a lot of modern software-based companies is that the value you create is impossible to calculate. It might be 10x of what your employer thinks or it might even be negative, and I have definitely seen examples for both myself
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by heipei 6y ago
I watched and read multiple reviews and Dave2D seems to be the only one who tried to quantify the throttling to some extent, all the others only had useless statements like "The Pro will probably be able to sustain unthrottled workload
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by heipei 6y ago
3 servers is always going to be the minimum recommended production configuration for any highly available system (container schedulers, databases, search indexes, etc). You can run Nomad perfectly fine just by itself on a single server, you
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by heipei 6y ago
Especially when that "stack" is just your operating system. Like, what feature does a new OS like Big Sur include that was previously denied to you on a previous version of OS X? I don't get the eagerness to upgrade, especial
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by heipei 6y ago
I'm curious, and I know this is a random thread to post this question, but how do you handle the fact that the Elixir process might be shut down with regards to necessary persistence of any message queues? Put differently: I consider b
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by heipei 6y ago
Eventually it becomes an obstacle to the customer who has to pick between all of these competitors. But seriously, uptime / API monitoring with dashboards is a space I spent way too much time researching to find the thing that matches
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by heipei 6y ago
Nobody is a fan of extra charges, but I am quite happy with Stripe since it's simple enough to use, by now powerful enough to be used even with bigger customers and for us it was the biggest road to being able to send out invoices to c
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by heipei 6y ago
I actually would use Safari on OS X if I still retained a way of syncing history / bookmarks / password with my Google account to my other Chrome instances on Android / Linux.
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by heipei 6y ago
I'm assuming he held his shares through his own holding company.
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by heipei 6y ago
Yes, some websites are certainly bloated and for those it is simply a band-aid. But other websites really do make dozens of requests and there is no way to bundle or reduce these. Just think about a photo-sharing website or forum which load
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by heipei 6y ago
https://http2.golang.org/gophertiles?latency=200 and https://http1.golang.org/gophertiles?latency=200 perfectly demonstrate the issue I'd be facing otherwise. 200ms latency from the US West Coast to Eu
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by heipei 6y ago
I actually view HTTP/2 as a great equalizing force for smaller players: It is perfect for "hiding" latency, so you are not forced to use a CDN like Cloudflare just to be closer to your user. Example: I run a service without a
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by heipei 6y ago
Anecdotal, but I've encountered so many legacy HTTP/1 applications on typical corporate VPN networks where the latency was horrible (due to the VPN and also due to the backend responses adding even more latency). What I've do
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by heipei 6y ago
Correct. Furthermore, the motto of the IETF is "Rough consensus and running code". Someone needs to go ahead and implement specs while they're still in draft stage so people can actually use it, benchmark it and in some cases
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by heipei 6y ago
Thanks, it's great to hear this kind of commitment. While it would certainly be possible to switch to Kubernetes if Nomad was ever abandoned, the thing is that I really wouldn't want to. Nomad, along with the rest of the Hashistac
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by heipei 6y ago
Check out browserless for something that's the same direction: https://www.browserless.io/
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by heipei 6y ago
Next up: "Predict a Twitter user's Myer Briggs type solely by whether they talk about Myer Briggs types in their bio" ...
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by heipei 6y ago
Yes, this is another reason that kept me from doing it. I have on class of files (images) that go from 1kB to ~ 1MB in size, but never above. But then I have another set of files that go from 1B to several MB in the worst case (with a norm
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by heipei 6y ago
Are you running it on multiple nodes? If so, how confidently can you handle typical "cluster" operations like adding nodes, removing broken nodes, etc? Happy to hear via DM as well.
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by heipei 6y ago
This looks almost exactly like the kind of data store I need for an application. I have previously considered using minio (too inflexible wrt to adding more shards / replicas), a homebrew system based on something like ScyllaDB (needs
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by heipei 6y ago
I'd rather have weird names that are unique than the incredible name overload from generic / cool product names that are used from flagship products all the way down to 5-line npm packages.
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by heipei 6y ago
Yeah, not knowing about him at all when I watched a talk by him and then realised that he is somewhat of an icon for indie/solo founders, I was very surprised to find out he had starting working as an employee in the meantime. I know h

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