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by illumin8 10y ago
First, I wanted to say, you bring up some very good points. S3 wasn't really designed to be a searchable key/value store, as you have to pay for lookups, and pagination kills your ability to effectively search anything greater th
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by illumin8 10y ago
A redemption fee is a good idea, but it would still take engineering effort to build such a feature, so the opportunity cost is that other features customers need wouldn't get built. Another thing I'd like to point out is that you
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by illumin8 10y ago
So, the solution to some customers not understanding the economics and functionality of ephemeral storage is to charge all customers for a minimum of 25 hours of use, even if they only use the instance for a single hour? That seems crazy.
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by illumin8 10y ago
You can't just buy a single enterprise-grade NVMe SSD and call it a day. Are you planning on buying enough to populate at least 2-3 servers with multiple devices, then setting up some type of synchronous replication across them? What
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by illumin8 10y ago
RDS snapshots are backups. They are copied to S3 storage, which is replicated across 3 datacenters within a region.
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by illumin8 10y ago
Don't blame AWS because you don't understand what ephemeral storage is. There is a significant security reason why they blank the ephemeral storage. How would you feel if a competitor got the same physical server as you, and was
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by illumin8 10y ago
There is no magic silver bullet that will let you upgrade a database without some minor amount of downtime. RDS minimizes this as much as possible by upgrading your standby database, initiating a failover, then creating a new standby. Cli
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by illumin8 10y ago
It's automatic. Go ahead and launch a new instance, restoring to a point in time (that's how you do restores in RDS). Notice that it gives you a calendar day/date/time fields where you can select the recovery point dow
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by illumin8 10y ago
You can get 500K random reads per second and 100K random writes per second using RDS Aurora. If you truly need more than 30K IOPs, I would recommend leveraging read-replicas, a Redis cache, and other solutions before just "throwing mon
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by illumin8 10y ago
Let's just say that Instapaper's outage was self-inflicted. You don't see them blaming their cloud provider, do you? People make mistakes, and even with a managed relational database service, you can still make mistakes. Th
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by illumin8 10y ago
With RDS Aurora, any of your read replicas can be promoted to read/write master in the event of a failure of your primary master. This happens in 10-15 seconds, and is very fast. So, you can get the benefit of up to 15 read replicas,
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by illumin8 10y ago
Wow, I'm sorry you experienced that. This points to the importance of regularly testing your backups. I hope AWS will offer an automated testing capability at some point in the future. In the meantime, I hope you've developed au
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by illumin8 10y ago
I have to say - if they were using a managed relational database service, like Amazon's RDS Postgres, this likely would have never happened. RDS fully automates nightly database snapshots, and ships archive logs to S3 every 5 minutes,
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by illumin8 10y ago
This is a false equivalence. Parents of children can't choose their genetic traits. Pet owners have the choice of what breed to adopt.
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by illumin8 10y ago
This is exactly the way I learned to practice riffs in jazz solos. You start at half speed, then slowly increase the speed, but only increase the speed if you can play the passage perfectly 3 times in a row at the current speed. It works a
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by illumin8 10y ago
And when your journal is corrupted due to a bug in the Docker volume driver?
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by illumin8 10y ago
I personally love my i3... I get about 120 miles on pure battery, but once the range extender kicks in I get about 40 mpg on a small 3 gallon gasoline tank. It actually works out pretty well, because 99% of my driving is well within the 12
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by illumin8 10y ago
If you disagree, commenting is probably more appropriate than downvoting. I'm still waiting to hear how your personal opinion about wealthy drivers is more accurate than auto insurance actuaries that calculate risk for a living.
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by illumin8 10y ago
Credit rating is highly correlated with wealth, and is also highly correlated with reduced accident rates. This is evidenced by me personally, as I now get much better auto insurance rates with an 800+ credit rating than I did when I was i
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by illumin8 10y ago
They published that the driver took absolutely no action, and that he had 7 seconds to take some action (7 seconds from the time the truck started to turn across his path until his car struck it). The last action he had taken was to enable
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by illumin8 10y ago
Thank you for your insightful comment - I wish people like you would testify in front of congress on the abuses of the H1B process that are clearly widespread. It's depressing to think about the stress and anxiety this might cause some
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by illumin8 10y ago
Yes they can. See smart meters. With analytics, they can determine every appliance in your house, and know exactly when and where you come and go at all hours of the day.
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by illumin8 10y ago
Good point, but I'm not sure correlation = causation here.
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by illumin8 10y ago
Agreed about VAT. However, has there been any historical precedent to taxing automation? Up until about 100 years ago, a huge percentage of the population was agrarian. Somehow we still managed to employ or re-employ all of those people,
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by illumin8 10y ago
These are the right questions to be asking: Did we tax the printing press when it automated writing books? Did we tax the grain combine? Did we tax industrial automation? It seems like a ridiculously slippery slope to begin taxing any means
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by illumin8 10y ago
The ACA allowed adult children to stay on their parents insurance until age 26. Without this provision, Zach would have been kicked off his parents health plan and been uninsured at 18. He probably wouldn't have even been able to aff
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by illumin8 10y ago
You know you can set the default music provider in the Alexa app, right? Setting this to Spotify allowed me to stop asking Alexa to "play X on spotify" and just say "play X" without getting bounced to Amazon music.
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by illumin8 10y ago
Looks interesting, but S3 gives me both eventual or read after write consistency, as well as 11 9s of durability. Why would I use this instead?
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by illumin8 10y ago
He says he switched from OS X to Linux years ago, which I assume is long before 2013 when the trashcan Mac Pro was released. This article is garbage. If he likes Linux, that's fine, but don't pretend that Apple's actions in
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by illumin8 10y ago
Yes, but Forstall was responsible for skeumorphism across all of iOS, so I'm not certain he really was as visionary as Jobs.

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