inframouse

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by inframouse 10y ago
I think they are running to catch up on the gitlab system itself, let alone running it as a production service. The bugs in the last few months have been epic. Backups not working, merge requests broken, chrome users seeing bugs, chaotic su
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by inframouse 10y ago
The real problem I have is the low network performance. Yes, yes, before everyone jumps all over me and points to Jupiter etc.. I understand the problems in Pb/s bisection bandwidth for the large datacenters. That doesn't change t
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by inframouse 10y ago
On the one hand, there a significant number of people that can't fizzbuzz applying for the jobs. On the other hand, there are a significant number of people that can only do the interviews and are not good engineers in general once hir
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by inframouse 10y ago
Right now this seems mostly to consist of javascript wrappers around existing platform libraries? E.g. to let me read a gpio pin or blink a led? Not that it's a bad thing but it seems a little skinny as a thing right now, and the pitch
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by inframouse 11y ago
They talk about running their own hardware so assume something like open compute or backblaze. But without the size or reliability of S3. Can't imagine they'll be able to do it at lower cost than Amazon either. Like you I have no
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by inframouse 11y ago
Reading through the spin.. it's just an object store and pubsub with some demo apps? Like S3 and SNS on Amazon or Google Datastore and Cloud pubsub? That's it? Why would anyone use this instead of AWS or Google?
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by inframouse 11y ago
Reading the article makes it sound like apps that upload to object store backend and that they installed some pub sub system to push notifications. Takes 4 years? Seems like spin. I interviewed there and glassdoor review is accurate for bac