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SlideRocket Acquired by VMware(sliderocket.com)
3 points by jbyers 15y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 15y ago
This article added one fact of interest: a price.
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by jbyers 16y ago
I'm more interested in an ec2failureanticipated.com. Sites that have a substantial operational presence in US-East that routed around the outage. I'm only aware of Netflix. Others?
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by jbyers 16y ago
Yes. I interviewed and eventually hired the developer of a name-brand open source project years ago. I asked him about parts of the code, and after I hired him he confessed that he thought it was game over right at that moment of the interv
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by jbyers 16y ago
We've had nginx in production for three years. 20 billion requests. 458 live configuration changes. A dozen or more live binary upgrades. Countless DOS attacks. One known failure. One. Because I was an idiot and tried to do something a litt
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by jbyers 16y ago
The fifth response (by gmane's sorting) says it's a "crack ridden idea" and acuses the authors of raping the standard. So, yeah, flame on.
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Exit Interview: Shopzilla(37signals.com)
7 points by jbyers 16y ago|1 comments
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It's Going to Snow in San Francisco(sfgate.com)
1 points by jbyers 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 16y ago
The most productive periods of your life are those where you act crazy. Why?
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by jbyers 16y ago
I didn't know about FileVo. I just read up on their situation and curiously, it's another issue involving UK2 (in this case their MidPhase brand) and SoftLayer. Both the SimpleCDN and FileVo shutdowns do look bad. But I'm not relying on c
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by jbyers 16y ago
We've hosted our site at SoftLayer since 2006 and trust them with our customers' data. We have a significant investment in time and money in them (dozens of servers in 3 datacenters) and don't regret it. The SimpleCDN issue involved three
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by jbyers 16y ago
(1999)
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by jbyers 16y ago
It should be straightforward to put HN behind an SSL proxy (nginx, apache, stunnel, what-have-you) if the application constructs URLs properly. HN seems to, but in some applications that's a big "if". I'd be happy to test and supply an ngi
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by jbyers 16y ago
Gmail as of January, 2010. No additional hardware, 1% CPU overhead: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht... "If you stop reading now you only need to remember one thing: SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive an
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by jbyers 16y ago
HAProxy is very light. We put it between nginx and our webservers for better failure handling, load-balancing, and some additional logging detail. On a small system (single AMD 1226) it's averaged 3% CPU over the last 15 days while handli
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by jbyers 16y ago
Apache has not strictly been one process per connection since 2.0. See the worker MPM. I would have chosen nginx, but Apache can be configured as a capable static file server.
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by jbyers 16y ago
It's nice to see detail like this on high-traffic, high-risk environments. I'm curious about their provisions for cross-datacenter failover. The article mentions haproxy being ready to direct requests to a different datacenter as well as E
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by jbyers 16y ago
Note that the author is Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP. The system he describes covers a variety of edge cases that are almost never properly handled in PHP deployment scripts I've seen in the wild.
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Google Charts API over HTTPS(imperialviolet.org)
2 points by jbyers 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 16y ago
(2006)
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by jbyers 16y ago
"the ratio of revenues, losses, final price and outcome are, to my knowledge, accurate" The relative amounts are what matter. The story also now says he'll delete any comments on the blog speculating about the company in question.
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by jbyers 16y ago
...But We Can't Say for Sure It Did
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by jbyers 16y ago
No need to go with the big boys, just go with the unchained boys. RapidSSL / GeoTrust offer unchained certs that are teeny (< 2K) compared to GoDaddy (4K+, 2 chain certs) and others.
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by jbyers 16y ago
Previous stories had not identified the specific devices under control, only speculated about the nuclear connection.
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by jbyers 16y ago
Akamai pay as you go pricing was just around 150$/TB pricing with resellers Who resells at this rate other than VPS.net? There's a reason Akamai terminated their contract. I haven't found another legitimate reseller that's anywher
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by jbyers 16y ago
This ups the pressure on entrenched CDNs. I love it. For static object delivery and streaming there is no longer any excuse for usurious bandwidth rates, opaque pricing, utter disinterest in smaller customers, and terrible control and mon
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by jbyers 16y ago
Very sloppy on my part. Corrected, thanks!
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by jbyers 16y ago
Several comments in this thread say something to the effect of "sailboats do this all the time" or "sailors have known this for years." Sailboats do not sail faster than the wind when sailing dead downwind. High-performance sailboats absol
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by jbyers 16y ago
It does work and Google definitely does not want the public to use it. A Googler's post on the topic from 2007: http://groups.google.com/group/google-chart-api/msg/85186f74...
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by jbyers 16y ago
Thanks Reddit, because now I know that a sydharb is a unit of measurement equivalent to 200,000 Olympic swimming pools. Or the volume of the Sydney Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measur...

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