michaelfairley

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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Our webapp doesn't directly communicate with photon at all. The webapp sticks the photo in a certain bucket on S3 with, and then includes the path to that photo in the photon url that gets passed to the client. On the read path, HTTP is rea
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
We do two layers of caching (CDN in front of Varnish in front of photon). The latency is annoying, but it's no worse than serving the files directly off of S3 (as we were doing previously). In an ideal world, Photon would be running on boxe
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Processing photos on demand with Photon(blog.1000memories.com)
51 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|15 comments
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Context switches and serialization in Node(aphyr.com)
4 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
We used to have a horizontal quilt[1]. We got rid of it both for design reasons, and because the math behind it is much trickier and limits the layout (e.g. you can't do arbitrary ordering of the photos). 1: http://www.iftf.org/system/file
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Open sourcing the “quilt” view for iOS(blog.1000memories.com)
56 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|14 comments
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Monorail (n., jargon)(somethingsimilar.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
# of low-quality support requests could work for that.
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Have you ever A/B tested picodollar pricing agains full dollar pricing?
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Guy Steele - Growing a Language(organizedwonder.com)
6 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Why I don't like factory_girl(blog.steveklabnik.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|2 comments
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The lady in the taxi – a parable of metrics(dannorth.net)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Why there are Datacenters in NY, Hong Kong, and Tokyo?(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
4 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You(gizmodo.com)
7 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|1 comments
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On Resilience in Automated Systems, Failures and the Human Factor(paperplanes.de)
5 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Don't Make Your Code "More Testable"(gmoeck.github.com)
4 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Ultimately, OP's strategy is just increasing the cost of brute forcing. Why not use the cost increasing features built into the hashing algorithms themselves?
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
_Nobody_ is hashing thousands of passwords per second as part of a typical webapp load. Even if somebody was, they would need only ~50 cores for hashing. I'm sure anybody with that much traffic could easily shell out a few thousand bucks fo
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Or just use bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2 in the typical manner. You're much more likely to screw yourself by mis-implementing this than you are to actually gain any real security benefit from it.
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Siren(github.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Coda Hale: The Other Side of Software Engineering(livestream.com)
3 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|1 comments
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Why I love Code and Coffee(blog.apprentice.us)
1 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Fdoc: Square's API Documentation Tool(corner.squareup.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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It’s not called “Red Green Red Green Red Green Spend A Whole Day Refactoring”(devblog.avdi.org)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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"X-" deprecated for HTTP headers(tools.ietf.org)
133 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|35 comments
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Client v. Server Templating Shootout(ryanflorence.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Clojure: Production Web REPL(blog.jayfields.com)
3 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Tap versus intermediate variables(naildrivin5.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
It's now yellow with this: "9:27 PM PDT We continue to investigate this issue. We can confirm that there is both impact to volumes and instances in a single AZ in US-EAST-1 Region. We are also experiencing increased error rates and latencie
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Definitely an EBS issue. Our (EBS backed, Heroku hosted) DB was returning queries more and more slowly leading up to the outage.

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