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by michaelfairley 14y ago
The circle is green with a little "note" on it. "8:50 PM PDT We are investigating degraded performance for some volumes in a single AZ in the us-east-1 region."
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
EBS is a deep, dark black magic that time has shown doesn't actually work.
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
FYI: Your 1b is not the same as other people's 1b: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_can_I_make_sure_that_I_a... Various software used to hardcode 1a, so 1a received disproportionate load. Now, everyone's a-e is randomized among the "tr
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
This is a more widespread EC2/EBS issue: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
The AWS status page[1] is showing problems for EC2 East as of a few minutes ago. This <strike>might be</strike> is a more widespread issue. EDIT: Various non-Heroku EC2-East-based sites (e.g. Quora) seem to be down as well,
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An Epistemological Nightmare(mit.edu)
12 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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We are experiencing too much load. Let's add a new server.(jamesgolick.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
I've stopped updating it. It's at least a year stale.
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The Popsicle Index(solari.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Heroku is $15 for 20GB.
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Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans(postgres.heroku.com)
105 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|62 comments
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Python's function decorators in Ruby(github.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Extending Ruby with Ruby(speakerdeck.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Introducing awfulness.js(blog.tommorris.org)
39 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|16 comments
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
There are also threads, which are typically much easier to program for than an asynchronous system, but will still let you have more than 1 request per process.
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
There's a similar list at http://bestintrobook.com/all that includes most of the same, as well as introductory books for less academic topics.
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
Pygments ( http://pygments.org/ ) will also turn code into syntax highlighted HTML.
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EMC Buys Pivotal Labs(gigaom.com)
200 points by michaelfairley 15y ago|66 comments
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DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months(danshipper.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 15y ago|0 comments
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Scala and Ruby Rosetta Stone(nevercertain.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 15y ago|0 comments
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Posterous acquired by Twitter(blog.posterous.com)
612 points by michaelfairley 15y ago|160 comments
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
When someone says "I learned how to ride a bike over the weekend", the response is never "I don't see you doing tricks in a half-pipe, so you really only 'learned how to pedal down the street'. Don't call that learning how to ride a bike."
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Metrics(metrics.codahale.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 15y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
Also doable without rails: # In config.ru # App, V0, and Resque::Server are each sinatra apps run Rack::URLMap.new({ "/" => App.new, "/v0" => V0.new, "/resque" => Resque::Server.new, })
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
Zuck has talked about this publicly: He foresees Facebook.com fading, and Facebook's social graph to the be the thing that powers every quasi-social activity on the internet.
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The most beautiful ideas I’ve encountered(unschooled.org)
2 points by michaelfairley 15y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
Be careful with storing stuff only on CDs. CDs (especially consumer CD-Rs) don't last forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
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by michaelfairley 15y ago
http://assets.1000memories.com/blog_posts/iphone4s_1.JPG was taken with our app. Not a gimmick. Almost all of the photos we (1000memories employees) upload to our site are through the iPhone app, and we're more than pleased with the resul
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1000memories (YC S10) Is About To Fill Facebook With Gen X’s Embarrassing Photos(techcrunch.com)
33 points by michaelfairley 15y ago|16 comments

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