locutous

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by locutous 4y ago
Creating or joining a bandwagon to vilify people who reject well established consensus is highly damaging to individuals and society.
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by locutous 4y ago
Tried freebsd for a router because if into like this. Hardware support was lacking for my setup. It ended up being unstable and horrible. Replaced with Linux and it's been running smoothly since.
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by locutous 4y ago
Nothing prevents you from compressing the smaller response of what you asked for.
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by locutous 4y ago
I used graphql at one place and our stitching was a disaster. I'm thinking bad decision. We also had micro services. It was the most unstable backend I've ever worked with. Yet the architects who picked all these techs were most
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by locutous 4y ago
That's generally true for sizable companies. Small companies can and do use full stack devs. Segmentation makes some sense but the industry is lacking end to end thinking as you point out.
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by locutous 4y ago
USB NIC consumes more CPU. Also if you are trying to use pfSense or another *BSD based router, they don't support the USB NICs very well. I ran that setup for a bit and it was dropping packets left and right. After I switched to a L
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by locutous 4y ago
I believe that the "one big server" is intended for an application rather than trying to run 500 applications. Does your application run on a single server? If yes. Don't use a distributed system for it's architecture
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by locutous 4y ago
I find disk io to be a primary reason to go with bare metal. The vm abstractions just kill io performance. In a single server you can fill up the PCI lanes with flash and hit some ridiculous throughput numbers.
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by locutous 4y ago
The only cloud service I've had pro actively turn off provisioned resources is OCI. I've used all but Google cloud. That's a pretty distinctive difference IMHO. My post attempts to describe when and why. Though I have onl
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by locutous 4y ago
OCI it's pretty confusing. They have two free tiers, the expanded initial time based and the always free tier. As far as I can tell, when your time runs out on the expanded free tier they turn everything off and you have to re provisi