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by latch 11y ago
In terms of scale, for EC2 and all services that run on it, it's more economical at ALL points to rent (dedicated) or buy (colocate). S3 is more competitive, so that question becomes more interesting. There might be specific use-cases&
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by latch 11y ago
If saving money and giving your users a better experience are priorities then, in general , moving off AWS is worth considering. When it comes to EC2, spot instances or maybe you're doing it wrong. Conservatively speaking, without ban
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by latch 11y ago
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by latch 11y ago
I don't know. All I know is this [possibly dated] quote from Rob Pike: "Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++
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by latch 11y ago
Lack of generics (stick, meet dead horse) is at the forefront. Lack of very basic functions (map, filter, reduce) against slices. map[string]interface{} is pain to work with (one of the moderately popular libraries I mentioned helps: https
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by latch 11y ago
I wrote The Little Go book [free], my first Go blog post was in 2011, and a few of my Go libraries are used by people other than just me. But Go's not my goto language. I'm a staunch believer in the productivity of dynamic languag
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by latch 11y ago
I've oft wondered if these would sell better without the Dell branding. Put a nondescript logo on the back (no word), remove all "Dell". This really annoyed me years ago when I spent a small fortune on a beautiful TV that had
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by latch 11y ago
"free drink"
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by latch 11y ago
I liked it, but I wouldn't recommend it. It could have easily been half the size. Many of the characters are caricatures, which, given the length of the book, I'll concede is more annoying than it is humorous. I did think Hank was
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by latch 11y ago
How would us knowing prevent them from doing this?
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by latch 11y ago
"The pipes can't generate power in every location; they only work in places where water is naturally flowing downward with gravity (if water is being pumped, the system would waste energy)."
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by latch 11y ago
Your parent is [rightfully] including bandwidth. If he was able to get 1gbps unmetered, then the math is in the right ballpark (that's a huge if though). Still, I agree with the parent's general sentiment re price. The gap use
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by latch 11y ago
Being able to survive unearthly conditions may just be a side effect of being able to survive extreme, yet common conditions, such as dehydration. Also, note that they don't thrive in these conditions, they're merely able to survi
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by latch 11y ago
Not all other prices are set by competition. There's much manipulation through things like subsidies, tariffs, tax incentives, and bailouts. Also, having lived in Singapore for years, it's a wonderful city and I love it, but the w
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by latch 11y ago
doesn't that leave walmart?
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by latch 11y ago
There's thousands of choices, most have been in business since before AWS has existed, and almost all of them will give you much better (2x-16x) bang for your money (Even on a small order, you can (or could) negotiate SoftLayer'
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by latch 11y ago
Are you being funny? If not, how do you suggest they do that?
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by latch 11y ago
I know it's asking a lot, but I wish people's eating habits were driven more by environmental and humanitarian factors, than what they like or even what's healthy (though I believe none of these are mutually exclusive). I fin
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by latch 11y ago
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by latch 11y ago
Imagine you're running a load balancer in front of your application. Caring about your application's response time, when a request comes in, you measure the start time. When the response leaves your application, you measure the en
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by latch 11y ago
Humm...we might have to agree to disagree. For me, there's a fuzzy line where enough time has passed that actions need to be judged based on what was known, or should have been known, at the time. The question for me isn't: Did it
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by latch 11y ago
I found your last sentence hard to parse. Are you saying that all of the justifications you've heard for the bombing were absolutely unconvincing? I have strong feelings both ways, but I find it hard to deny that it probably saved a lo
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by latch 11y ago
reporting: cache hit ratios at different POPs and different types of resources (don't lump my .js files with my mp4s, let me give you patterns / routes to group by)). fine grained latency numbers (95, 99, 99.9 percentiles) per reg
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by latch 11y ago
I wasn't going to reply, but your misquote is dishonest. I specifically said that it was those thing with respect to dealing with web requests within the further scope of talking to the database and dealing with user input. I also poin
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by latch 11y ago
Thanks for calling me out on that, I might have a hard time justifying the claim. It was a reference to the fact that, at your system boundaries the benefit of a strongly-typed language aren't only offset by the lack of flexibility, bu
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by latch 11y ago
Most people who rewrote their apps from X to Go and saw improved performance and readability benefited much more from the rewrite than they did from Go. At best, the fact that Go has a relatively weak ecosystem, means that they had to write
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by latch 11y ago
I agree with your parent. The ecosystem on *nix is larger, more robust and cheaper. There's just so many more tools around that you'll end up running a mix-environment, which is obviously not ideal (but certainly not impossible).
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by latch 11y ago
I like how the article talks about the uselessness of percentiles, when a lot of people are still using averages! Seriously, one of the best tool we use is to count thresholds and buckets. On a per-route basis, identify a threshold that you
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The dangers of our protein diet obsession(macleans.ca)
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by latch 11y ago
Why LA, # of drivers, size of the city or # of users? Quick googling says LA is 500 miles squared, with Beijing being 6500. The only case where I see 1 server failing is # of requests. All their drivers in the world probably fit in a few GB

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