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by jackgill 6y ago
This is some of the most insightful high-level thinking about AWS services that I've seen. No taxonomy is perfect, but this is invaluable for gaining a panoramic perspective on the vast sprawl of AWS.
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by jackgill 6y ago
Thanks for sharing, I've heard many good things about Snowflake. In the past I've seen them as more of a Redshift competitor (data warehouse, as opposed to a data lake) but if they can simplify data ingest then I am definitely int
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by jackgill 6y ago
I'm interested in hearing opinions about this principle in the context of data engineering: > This also means leaning heavily into all the service offerings and orchestration tooling that is afforded to you by your platform. I'
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Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS(trek10.com)
212 points by jackgill 6y ago|90 comments
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by jackgill 7y ago
Understanding the AWS bill is far harder than it should be. That being said, there are some resources that weren't mentioned in this blog post. The ultimate source of truth is the AWS Cost & Usage Report [1] which can be delivered
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by jackgill 12y ago
The writing in this post is superb. One of my favorite lines: "Windows is the Superbowl Halftime Show of operating systems. Given what everyone got paid, and how many people were involved, you’d think it would be a lot more memorable.&
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A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems(osxbook.com)
3 points by jackgill 12y ago|0 comments
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by jackgill 13y ago
Also worth mentioning is the GnuWin32 project ( http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ). It provides native Windows builds of many GNU utilities, including a few handy ones missing from the Git distribution like file and wget. If
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by jackgill 13y ago
Your zip example actually demonstrates why Powershell is significantly more powerful than Bash (or any other Unix shell). I presume that if asked "How do you zip a file in Bash?" you would reply with something like this: zip a
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by jackgill 14y ago
I'll add another recommendation for MediaWiki. It is a good low-friction way to establish documentation for internal services and libraries. The markup syntax is rather idiosyncratic, but powerful enough for most of our needs. "Does it have
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by jackgill 14y ago
I quite enjoyed this, it's a nice piece of "inside baseball" for high energy theoretical physics. For those who don't have time to read 20 pages of jargon from another specialty, here's an excerpt from the end of the paper that I think comm
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Can an app cure depression?(venturebeat.com)
1 points by jackgill 14y ago|0 comments
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by jackgill 14y ago
That sounds like the "Second System Effect", described by Fred Brooks in "The Mythical Man Month": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect