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by igor47 13y ago
oops, sorry! i meant the "parlour tricks" part in response to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640033 not in response to the author!
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by igor47 13y ago
i think that another project that aims to address this was announced same day as smartstack: http://www.serfdom.io/ i haven't read much beyond the splash page, but hashicorp generally does great work.
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by igor47 13y ago
you could solve this with a simple state machine; there's no reason to resort to parlour tricks... https://gist.github.com/igor47/7228586
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by igor47 13y ago
Hi guys! I'm one of the primary authors of SmartStack. Happy to answer any questions that aren't covered in the blog post. We're also doing a Tech Talk on SmartStack today at Airbnb HQ; stop by if you're in SF: https:&#
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by igor47 13y ago
What is traffic sloshing? Good point on garbage data reporting; we do basic validation in synapse, here: https://github.com/airbnb/synapse/blob/master/lib/synapse/se... We could probably do mor
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by igor47 13y ago
At Airbnb, we've moved to a single Vagrant vm for our dev environment. We configure it using the same Chef code we use to build production -- the cookbook that installs search in production also installs it in dev. We actually usually
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by igor47 13y ago
That's the idea! If you're using Chef, check out the cookbook for SmartStack; you keep a small hash of configuration information per service, and we take care of the rest. https://github.com/airbnb/smartstack-
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by igor47 13y ago
Unfortunately, Airbnb is a pretty legacy AWS client; when we started using it, VPC was a much less prominent feature. Migrating to a VPC is a very non-trivial process, especially if you have RDS instances outside the VPC