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by markbnj 11y ago
I'm a Netflix fan, as a consumer and an engineer, and this blog post just reinforces my fanboi status. Amidst the descriptions of deployment tools and pipelines one thing stood out for me: the fact that AMI bake times are now a large f
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by markbnj 11y ago
Small improvements. Don't get me wrong: the things you listed are all nice and useful (+1 for keeping more than one stack trace). But I don't think anyone's definitions of "innovation" includes fixing exception repo
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by markbnj 11y ago
At the very least I'll agree that terseness is not always a virtue, and the time saved in keystrokes or formatting now may be easily lost later when someone tries to figure things out. That said, not all statements of this form are unr
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by markbnj 11y ago
All I can say is that on first glance it appeared to me to be a url shortener, and the thought that it, um, shortened landmarks... or something... never crossed my mind.
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by markbnj 11y ago
This looks seriously awesome. Nice job on the catalog broswer.
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by markbnj 11y ago
There's an edit box with placeholder text that says "Paste long url here," and a button next to it labeled "shorten." It seems pretty self-explanatory.
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by markbnj 11y ago
With all due respect, that's really just fear mongering. There have been alcoholic beverages that are visually indistinguishable from non-alcoholic beverages pretty much since we have had alcoholic beverages. In fact making a stiff dri
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by markbnj 11y ago
Impressive, and the moon was a nice, stylish touch :).
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by markbnj 11y ago
Looks like a very interesting and potentially powerful diagnostic tool. Nice work!
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by markbnj 11y ago
No the article discusses observed phenomena and attributes their cause to what the author wishes the cause to be, without, as far as I could see, any real evidence.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I think what we'd all actually be safer without is super smart academic types who think they can do a better job of system design than 100 years of shared experience. Traffic rules are among the most organic constraints we have develop
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by markbnj 11y ago
Both versions of an API can run behind haproxy as well, and requests can be switched between them based on many different criteria from OSI layer 4 on up. I guess I just don't see what was novel or interesting about the basic idea of s
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by markbnj 11y ago
What is the difference between this and writing your services to an API that runs behind something like haproxy that can be quickly configured to direct requests to whatever stack you like?
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by markbnj 11y ago
For us the list is very long, beginning with debian and ubuntu. Elasticsearch, redis, haproxy, mongodb, postgressql ... really too many to list. Of these certainly elasticsearch, redis, and haproxy are best in class in my opinion, and all t
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by markbnj 11y ago
I don't know why we have to do so much navel-gazing on this topic. REST is just a loose set of guidelines for invoking operations on, and exchanging data with a remote server in a more or less stateless fashion. If json works, use it.
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> ... and I need none of Dockers scaling properties, so I'll run it direct on hardware. What is not "direct on hardware" about Docker containers? There's a bit of a misunderstanding here, and I wouldn't nitpi
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yes, certainly. I wasn't assuming that a couple of programmers could pull it off. But if a group of people with the funding wanted to take control of the network away from these problematic miners could they?
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by markbnj 11y ago
I have never understood the bitcoin protocol very well, and I did not have time to read the entire posted article and its linked supporting pieces. That said, I did pick up that one of the major issues is that a few miners in China control
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by markbnj 11y ago
If you can live with an in-memory store (with or without a roll-your-own persistence model) then there are all sorts of lighter-weight alternatives to redis. It's when you need to share the data with multiple processes that tools like
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by markbnj 11y ago
I grew up in upstate NY and visited Kodak's campus in Rochester in their heyday. It was impressive as hell to a ten year-old. I'm sure the idea that the massive works and the business they represented could almost completely evapo
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by markbnj 11y ago
The picture at mid-point on the page, of one worker digging and 11 people watching, probably offers as pointed a commentary as anything else in the piece.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I'm older than Mr. Graham, and grew up in the heart of the period he focuses on. I think this is one of the smartest essays about the economic and cultural after-effects of the great wars of the 20th century, and all the accompanying a
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by markbnj 11y ago
I thought there were some rules passed years ago regarding unsolicited faxes, due to the costs in paper and ink they incurred. I remember the topic coming up in the late 80's or early 90's I think. I wonder if this use falls under
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by markbnj 11y ago
Interesting! I assume tabs being so common in C projects has to do with their use in makefiles. But what is up with Go? Why are tabs used exclusively there? Not a Go programmer so I assume that must reflect something in the language or typi
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by markbnj 11y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up. So they use the fans for lift until you get enough forward speed then tuck them.
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by markbnj 11y ago
After watching the video on the linked page it seems to be a hybrid gasoline-electric system. But you can be forgiven your confusion, since the video apparently could get some of the other details straight. Moments after show the prop blade
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> The issue with https is that it’s really bloody hard. How we handle it: we terminate all incoming connections at haproxy and negotiate ssl there. The haproxy instance is packaged into a docker container that pulls the right certs f
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by markbnj 11y ago
Agreed, it's very difficult to get to a completely stateless protocol and still support stateful ideas like authentication.
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by markbnj 11y ago
RESTful is not a spec, as has been pointed out: it's an idea. It's much more like other large-scale design patterns than it is a protocol. Think "object oriented," or "procedural," not "http" or &quot
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by markbnj 11y ago
I don't think it's confusing because it says exactly what it is supposed to say. 'Stateless' is not a property of the client, or the server, but of the relationship between them, and that relationship is expressed in the

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