merreborn

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by merreborn 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/5ZwpT7z.png Venture capital spending keeps rising. and a lot of it is coming from SoftBank https://www.recode.net/2017/10/11/16459856/softbank-biggest-...
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by merreborn 7y ago
Fastly also has more "points of presence" than AWS/GCP Fastly has deployments in 17 north american cities. AWS is in 5. They're pretty different strategies. For every massive AWS datacenter on a continent, fastly has a
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by merreborn 7y ago
https://hpbn.co/transport-layer-security-tls/#leverage-early... Establishing a connection can require several round trips, and the latency adds up. "early termination" with a point of presence near your end
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by merreborn 7y ago
suffice it to say: a bunch of AWS features were essentially developed for the benefit of netflix. So, while it entails some risk, ultimately, yes: it's not uncommon for a handful of customers to be the 900 lb gorillas
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by merreborn 7y ago
And their biggest enterprise customers are paying fastly at least 6 figures annually
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by merreborn 7y ago
Yeah they run a fork of varnish 2 with inline C disabled, and a number of custom extensions (surrogate keys, tables/dictionaries, etc.) -- as well as likely customizations to support their massively multi-tenant deployment and more Add
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by merreborn 9y ago
For what it's worth... > Ferrero... reached its goal of using only palm oil that has been certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil... Nutella’s palm oil comes mostly from Malaysia, as well as from Brazil, Indonesia and Pa
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by merreborn 9y ago
> I'd really like to know everything FB tracks on those like buttons, it's probably an obscene amount of personal data. When you request a page like this guardian article, all they'd have access to would be: * The url
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by merreborn 9y ago
> Like buttons are partially served by Facebook Yes, the default configuration has your page include javascript from facebook.net which the browser will request on every page view https://developers.facebook.com/docs&#x2F
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by merreborn 10y ago
Our company recently ran most of us through interview/hiring training. One of the core messages of this training was "hire for soft skills; technical skills can be trained" This included a slide with a hypothetical "can