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We cut our AWS bill by 70%(blog.bigpicture.io)
5 points by mfrye0 5y ago|3 comments
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by mfrye0 5y ago
That would be a great writeup. If someone tracked them down and figure out why they failed, how many were bought out, etc. I'm sure there are a lot of lessons to learn in there.
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by mfrye0 5y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to Carta?
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by mfrye0 5y ago
While not a site with user generated content, our version of this was a huge increase in spam accounts. We offer an API with a free tier. So naturally people would create multiple accounts to avoid having to pay. It's been a huge lesso
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by mfrye0 5y ago
It was a 3rd party resource that when updated would call a lambda via a webhook, which would then update the 3rd party resource. So it would create an infinite loop for each resource that was modified. Dumb mistake...
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by mfrye0 5y ago
I was able to get AWS to forgive the majority of the bill. I think that was my one time pass though.
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by mfrye0 5y ago
I believe so, if it's a T series. For 100% CPU usage, it's cheaper to just get a non T series instance like a M.
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by mfrye0 5y ago
One of the biggest mistakes I made is not exploring spot instances and reserved instances earlier. I cut my bill by 70-80%% after paying full price for years... If you have an active web server or backend workers with fairly short jobs, spo
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by mfrye0 5y ago
> If you want to talk systemic AWS mistakes you can make, we accidentally created an infinite event loop between two Lambdas. Racked up a several-hundred-thousand dollar bill in a couple of hours. I did more or less the same thing, but w
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Clearbit Alternative(blog.bigpicture.io)
3 points by mfrye0 5y ago|0 comments
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by mfrye0 5y ago
Got it. Yeah, it's definitely tricky. The other aspect is that a decent chunk of the IPv4 space at least is fairly dynamic. We've seen some blocks change owners every few weeks.
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by mfrye0 5y ago
I've been working on this and have built that database, though we only expose at the IP level: https://bigpicture.io/docs/api/#ip-api . What did you have in mind as far as a use case?
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by mfrye0 5y ago
I haven't heard of this thing yet. Do you have one?
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by mfrye0 5y ago
Yeah, I was in a similar place at one point. Check out the book in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6099623 . The book is: https://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pa... I d
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by mfrye0 5y ago
I was on the list for a SDK at CTRL-Labs before FB swooped in and bought them. I'm really bummed I couldn't get ahold of one first. In having on-again, off-again RSI issues over the years from coding, I think this tech would be hu
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by mfrye0 5y ago
I've been doing some AWS optimization recently. For my setup, which heavily uses a lot of short job based queue patterns, I've had a lot of success with the following: 1) Moving to spot instances where possible 2) Autoscaling rule
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YugabyteDB 2.7 Released(blog.yugabyte.com)
1 points by mfrye0 5y ago|0 comments
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by mfrye0 6y ago
This is great. I've been thinking about hacking something like this together for myself for awhile now. Part of my interest in this is that I'm sitting on a bunch of company data already - both public and private companies. I&#x27
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by mfrye0 6y ago
> hearing that this is your third project in the past 8 months is not exactly what I want to hear from my B2B provider. Ironically one of the top live chat companies right now was project 7 or 8 within a year before settling on chat.
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by mfrye0 7y ago
One thing that threw me off is upserts with NULL in Postgres. NULL != NULL so it will continually create new rows.
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by mfrye0 7y ago
I went through a similar situation and ended up using https://voicecode.io for a few years. It worked well enough for me, but I always found it hard using it in a public setting. Ironically, I solved my RSI issue after coming ac
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by mfrye0 7y ago
I had a friend tell me recently about a client using commercial real estate data for lead gen. He mentioned https://compstak.com/ Basically, identifying companies that are doing well / expanding by how big the space is
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by mfrye0 7y ago
Yeah, he didn't do the best job of explaining why in that example. Using a global store makes sense when your todo list evolves and the component storing the data is no longer mounted / exists. Examples could be: - Full page indiv
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by mfrye0 7y ago
For anyone not familiar with UI app design, you do not need to always default to a Redux or Mobx. I've found a simple object / class with an event emitter will suffice for many cases.
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by mfrye0 7y ago
Not necessarily. If you fail, just get a job, save up more money, then try again. The more you fail, the more you learn, the greater the likelihood of success the next time around.
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by mfrye0 7y ago
Are you? Never heard of that, but it looks pretty cool.
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by mfrye0 7y ago
I've been listening to binaural beats lately at the recommendation of a few friends. It seems to work pretty well to drown out the office noise without distracting me.
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by mfrye0 7y ago
Can you elaborate on "BERT + rules + a classic search engine"? We're due to upgrade our basic Postgres based text search to a formal search solution and investigating different options.
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by mfrye0 7y ago
You beat me to it. I was going to share this too. I believe Michael Seibel had some choice words on Twitter last week about this guy. If you want to see one of the interviews, the one from Workato is particularly memorable: https:/&#x
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by mfrye0 7y ago
Agreed. We've been using this successfully for awhile now. I'm curious though at what point something like this or ES itself would make sense for primarily text search. Is speed the biggest thing, or is it more flexibility to twea

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