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AWS CloudFormation: BeanStalk with custom stacks(aws.amazon.com)
80 points by justinsb 16y ago|31 comments
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by justinsb 16y ago
I'd argue you should be able to get a full refund, but no transfers should be allowed, to prevent scalping.
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by justinsb 16y ago
The hope would be that Google makes transferring tickets sufficiently hard that if people don't really want to go they just take the refund.
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by justinsb 16y ago
I think you're exactly the sort that Google wants to attract - so congratulations on getting your ticket. The issue is that the structure that means that you're willing to self fund (giving you freebies that refund your cost), also attract
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by justinsb 16y ago
Agreed. I presume the main point of charging at all is to match supply & demand, but given that everyone believes the price is <= 0 anyway, this obviously isn't working any more.
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by justinsb 16y ago
A quick TLDR: It seems probable that a lot of the people are just going for the freebies, and by announcing that there will be no giveaways and offering refunds, that will open up spots for people that actually want to go to the conference
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by justinsb 16y ago
And I think I figured out how to do it... Google needs to announce that they won't give anything away this year! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2190278
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The Google I/O freebie I'm hoping for: Nothing(justinsb.posterous.com)
193 points by justinsb 16y ago|55 comments
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by justinsb 16y ago
If it is really sold out, then I hope that Google will be cracking down on the scalpers this year. I saw a bunch of tickets on eBay last year from people that had plainly bought them betting that the freebies would be worth more (usually a
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by justinsb 16y ago
I agree that the developer experience with Salesforce is poor. But this means that Heroku now has the opportunity to make that developer experience _much_ better.
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by justinsb 16y ago
Looks great guys - I love the idea of getting value out of some of the great technology you've built along your journey.
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by justinsb 16y ago
Thanks - great link. Certainly much faster than strace!
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by justinsb 16y ago
I suspect you'd have to repeat a task if you discovered that it was dependent on another task's output. You would still discover this though, so your final output would still be correct.
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by justinsb 16y ago
You strace the build steps (gcc bar.c), not the output program
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by justinsb 16y ago
We're talking about build dependencies, not runtime dependencies. A build dependency is - by definition - one that is touched during the build process. strace exactly identifies that set.
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by justinsb 16y ago
http://benno.id.au/blog/2008/06/06/memoize-build-framework
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by justinsb 16y ago
I agree with the blog, in that it seems disappointing that it doesn't integrate fabricate.py/memoize.py automatic-dependency-detection via strace. Those projects seem to advance the state of the art a lot more as a make-replacement. The g
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by justinsb 16y ago
For full durability, you configure/ask the DB to fsync the transaction log before reporting the transaction committed to the client. Most people can tolerate a few seconds of data loss, so a sensible config will only fsync every few seconds
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by justinsb 16y ago
All modern relational databases implement exactly what you've described... transactions are written to a transaction log, which is flushed to disk every few seconds (or whenever you want to guarantee that a txn is durable). Changes to the
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by justinsb 16y ago
FathomDB is much closer to Amazon RDS - MySQL-as-a-service. Every customer gets their own MySQL instance, and accesses it over the MySQL protocol, using normal SQL (the MySQL flavor at least). Database.com looks to be Salesforce repackagi
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by justinsb 16y ago
I attended the design summit, and I believe this is going to be a really big deal. Whether it's a big hosting company running a public cloud, a corporate running a private cloud, or a smaller dev/test cloud, they can now all run the same fr
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by justinsb 16y ago
I think you're right ... I don't see how these figures are consistent. Maybe they're factoring in the time it takes to restore a copy, maybe 'normal redundancy' S3 is doing something clever, maybe it's simply another instance of Amazon bei
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by justinsb 16y ago
Werner Vogels' blog posting on this: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/05/amazon_s3_reduce...
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by justinsb 16y ago
Pricing starts at 10c/GB rather than 15c/GB; hence I figured it's stored in 2 locations rather than S3's default 3 location redundancy.
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Amazon S3 Introduces Reduced Redundancy Storage (2x vs 3x)(docs.amazonwebservices.com)
34 points by justinsb 16y ago|18 comments
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by justinsb 17y ago
Watch the video: http://fathomdb.com/news/demo2010 Cynicism is too often just an excuse for mediocrity.
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by justinsb 17y ago
FathomDB is hiring engineers to work on our new scalable relational database: if you'd rather solve 'impossible' problems than work on yet another database-driven website where your biggest problem is going to dealing with bugs in the Faceb
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by justinsb 17y ago
OK - so there's another lesson I have to learn from you :-) Please, publish a blog post series on each of the mistakes made, explaining each one and how not to fall into the trap. Explain why slicehost taking 48 hours to notify a customer
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by justinsb 17y ago
OK, point taken. But you're assuming that Slicehost ignored the issue, rather than being bound by their own process. I simply expected more from you: as dfranke said, this is your opportunity to hammer home the importance of good security
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by justinsb 17y ago
But what if I phone up your hosting provider and tell them that your webserver is attacking my site? Should they shut it down immediately before notifying you? How long should they wait for a reply from you? How many checks should they d

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