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by kennu 2y ago
If you use your own Docker images, you lose one of the main benefits of Lambda, which is that AWS will take care of automatically patching all the security vulnerabilities in the infrastructure platform. My goal is always to outsource as mu
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by kennu 2y ago
In my view, the big promise of server-side WASM is to have an evergreen platform that doesn't need regular updates to the application. Just like HTML web pages work "forever" in browsers, WASM-based applications could work fo
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by kennu 2y ago
The blue background wasn't that nice IMHO. I always preferred the original Turbo Pascal with black background.
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by kennu 2y ago
I read the first volume a long time ago and enjoyed the view into how these open source projects have been designed, and what "architecture" actually means in their context. I think sometimes it's about making them easy to ex
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by kennu 2y ago
I was just stating what the difference is to a closed market environment like Second Life. Whether it's good or bad is another matter. In my view experimentation is good. I would assume that nobody can control your in-game assets arbit
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by kennu 2y ago
To my understanding, Second Life has always centrally controlled the currency (Linden dollar) and the purchase transactions of land and objects. So it hasn't been possible for players to create their own marketplaces, exchanges, tokens
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by kennu 2y ago
For me, it's just the opposite. I enjoy my work very much and like to work very intensively for 30 hours, usually at least 10 hours per day, and deliver lots of value. Then take a long break, spending time with family and hobby project
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by kennu 2y ago
But we tend to forget all the outages we had while self-hosting datacenters and servers before 2010 ;-) Of course, times also changed since early days, so that it is more and more important to be up 24/7.
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by kennu 2y ago
In my view, this is why cloud exists. You can externalize as much of your software stack as possible to the cloud platform, and only implement and maintain yourself the parts that differentiate. On AWS, this means using Lambda, Step Functio
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by kennu 2y ago
Worth trying, thanks! It would be nice to get rid of Windows 11 on laptop, because Ubuntu works much better for other stuff than games. (Development)
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by kennu 2y ago
I would say the opposite. Surprisingly many games still require Windows, at least on Steam. I can sometimes find something interesting that runs on a Linux too, but all the indie games are usually Windows only.
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by kennu 2y ago
Other people working on the project add their ignored files to the same .gitignore. No problem.
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by kennu 2y ago
Brushing teeth is a good example of activity where you use almost zero cognitive effort, because the daily routine is so automated. That's why it's so easy to forget to buy more toothpaste - you just don't think about it at a
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by kennu 2y ago
It would be very inconvenient to try to synchronize global gitignore settings to all my computers and development environments. When .gitignore files are part of the project, they are automatically distributed everywhere where they are need
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by kennu 2y ago
I think it's important to understand that supporting dark mode by default makes websites work properly also in situations where you are not logged in, or you aren't using your regular web browser with all its customizations and ex
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by kennu 2y ago
Very disappointing. CodeCommit had value in its APIs for managing and accessing Git repositories programmatically e.g. from Lambda functions. I've used it to implement simple, Git-compatible version control in some projects by calling
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by kennu 2y ago
Article resonates with me a lot. I've worked on countless projects where I put a lot of effort in designing things cleanly and correctly, only to find out afterwards that it wasn't really necessary. In many cases they were R&D
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by kennu 2y ago
Being used to automatic instant login with 1Password on most websites, forced magic email links are very frustrating. They make you switch windows, wait for the email to arrive, sometimes look for it in the spam folder, and finally also lea
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by kennu 2y ago
I never use null in Javascript, because I don't want attributes of type null, I just want attributes to either be present or not. This usually simplifies all designs and there is no need to think about null separately; it's treate
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by kennu 2y ago
I am of similar age and I've been betting on a combination of broad experience and productivity. Knowing basics of everything, but being really good at one thing (atm AWS and serverless), and applying latest productivity techniques to
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by kennu 2y ago
That's why automatic dark mode on websites doesn't have any effect unless you turn on dark mode. It lets you choose.
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by kennu 2y ago
Lack of automatic dark mode support on websites is very annoying at night, when you've turned dark mode on and everything else is dark, except that one website you just opened, and it now hurts your eyes or bothers other people in the
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by kennu 2y ago
Back when cloud computing was mostly for early adopters, I used to work on many customer projects at the same time, or in quick succession, in an architect/developer role. It was great as long as the projects worked out as planned and
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by kennu 2y ago
That's a good point, only very small data is cheaper in DynamoDB than S3. Also adding global secondary indexes tends to add cost, since writes are charged for each of them.
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by kennu 2y ago
Interestingly, DynamoDB is cheaper than S3 though, compared by number of requests. DynamoDB costs $1.25 per million write request units and $0.25 per million read request units. While S3 is $5 per million PUT requests and $0.4 per million G
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by kennu 2y ago
One of the hardest parts to achieve in building your own S3 clone might be 99.999999999% data durability and other SLA features.
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by kennu 3y ago
I think the main difference between WASM and JVM is that WASM was designed as a generic compilation target for all kinds of existing languages like C or Swift, while JVM is designed to specifically run Java bytecode with the features that J
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by kennu 3y ago
It's a nice number to advertise, but AWS really should make all CloudFormation deployments much faster. There's no reason why updating the code of a single Lambda function should take 30s or even several minutes. It should happen
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by kennu 3y ago
I think the usual part of AWS IAM is simple. You develop your app, it uses a Lambda role or an ECS task role, and you keep adding permissions to the role as needed. When you query a new table in DynamoDB, your app won't work until you
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by kennu 3y ago
This is not about crypto mining per se, but the electricity used: > Impose a new 30 percent excise tax on electricity costs associated with digital asset mining Seems like an effective incentive to migrate cryptocurrencies from Proof-of-

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