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by imbriaco 16y ago
If you keep reading, it's clear that MPEG-LA believes it has patents in the portfolio that cover VP8. If they expect to extract licensing revenue from those patents it's altogether possible that they don't care which format ultimately wins.
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by imbriaco 16y ago
The comparison of technical specifications leaves out one very large detail: weight. At 3.97 pounds, the Dell is more than a third heavier than the MacBook Air at 2.9 pounds. The form factor and weight of the MacBook Air is its killer featu
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by imbriaco 16y ago
Also keep in mind that creating a RAID0 of EBS volumes dramatically reduces your reliability too. If any one of the underlying EBS volumes misbehaves the entire RAID set has problems. Snapshots are still doable, they just require coordinati
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by imbriaco 16y ago
As a heavy user of EBS, I heartily concur. The ability to move EBS volumes around is handy but you pay it back in inconsistent, poor-to-mediocre performance. Good luck.
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by imbriaco 16y ago
Off the top of my head, Zencoder was originally built during a Rails Rumble. I know there are others as well, but that one sprang to mind.
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by imbriaco 16y ago
We run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on most everything. The Schooner MySQL appliances run a customized CentOS. Our Isilon storage arrays are based on a modified FreeBSD.
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by imbriaco 16y ago
For the record, we used to run MogileFS. The Isilon gear is a radical improvement and the price premium isn't anywhere near as bad as the numbers you presented. It was more expensive, but safety of our customer data is our most important jo
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by imbriaco 17y ago
You're exactly right, Tom. We dropped the ball on having the security@37signals.com account setup before this issue so reports went to our normal support team. A specific email address with an associated GPG key has since been added to our
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by imbriaco 17y ago
Synthetic benchmarks are far more subjective than actual production traffic, which is what we used to test. We ran the various configurations in production beside one another and compared the relative performance. Is it possible that the v
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by imbriaco 17y ago
That's exactly right. I'm not a big believer in synthetic benchmarks, and I'm not concerned with repeatability of my experiments. The purpose of my test was to determine, for our specific workload, how much of a difference we would see if
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by imbriaco 17y ago
The poller works great. Polling definitely not optimal, but Comet isn't without issues of its own. The Erlang poller was a fun project that Jamis and I worked on in our spare time. Transitioning Campfire to use Comet or some other push-b
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by imbriaco 17y ago
The original motivation was exactly because it was interesting and fun. When we got something working, I benchmarked it on my MacBook Pro and saw 1500 reqs/sec being handled on a single core. Those benchmarks made it much more real and so
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by imbriaco 18y ago
The point of the post wasn't to provide a rigorous performance analysis, it was to highlight the overall improvement. We prefer to attack the problem of performance from as many avenues as possible so that we can get the most That said, th