mikebabineau

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by mikebabineau 13y ago
If you're eschewing EBS because of past problems (like the Oct 2012 outage), you should be aware that RDS is EBS-backed [1]. Also, on EC2, EBS-backed instances boot faster [2]. Of course, you can (and should) still treat EBS-backed ins
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by mikebabineau 13y ago
Thanks for the note, we'll have to take a look at that sort of configuration. Your consumer problems sounds similar to one we had. Root cause was that the number of consumers exceeded the number of active partitions. The tricky part wa
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by mikebabineau 13y ago
We're running 0.7 and most of our problems have been around partition rebalancing. I'm not the primary engineer on this, but here's my understanding: If we add nodes to an existing Kafka cluster, those nodes own no partitions
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by mikebabineau 13y ago
This is essentially a hosted Kafka ( http://kafka.apache.org/ ). Given the complexity of operating a distributed persistent queue, this could be a compelling alternative for AWS-centric environments. (We run a large Kafka clu
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by mikebabineau 13y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (San Mateo, CA) -- https://www.rumblegames.com We're a well-funded, 40-person startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
This assumes that languages are used to solve similar classes of problems, or that, in aggregate, those different classes result in similarly-sized "feature" chunks. I think it's fair to say that nobody's ever written a forum in puppet, and
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
The RFC outlines a single variant of UUID, and describes five different versions of this variant. One of these versions is random. The author, however, is not using this version. I may be mistaken fact, but the uuid Ruby gem he used appea
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Facebook has released Corona as open source: https://github.com/facebook/hadoop-20/tree/master/src/contri...
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores, CA) -- https://www.rumblegames.com We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not too nich
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores, CA) -- https://www.rumblegames.com We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not too nich
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores, CA) -- https://www.rumblegames.com We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not niche-y.
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
First of all, www.nasa.gov is a CNAME: $ host www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov is an alias for www.nasa.gov.speedera.net. www.nasa.gov.speedera.net is an alias for www.nasa.gov.edgesuite.net. www.nasa.gov.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
(disclaimer: I'm ex-BioWare/EA and work for a[n awesome] gaming startup) Social games provide tremendous value, just not where most people think. It's not the "social" features, it's the ease of access. "G2" is not about delivering better s
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Nice site. One suggestion: “Simply send beautiful emails to people _who_ matter. Both are technically correct, but "who" is usually preferred when referring to people. Plus it feels more personal :)
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores, CA) -- https://www.rumblegames.com We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not niche-y.
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores) We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not niche-y. Our first title is a cooperative mul
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by mikebabineau 14y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores) Lead/senior/mid-level engineers, data scientists, BI, producers, artists, designers, writers, and more: http://www.rumblegames.com/careers Rumble is a developer and publisher of connected games. We we
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
A similar tool is available for SDB: https://github.com/stephenh/fakesdb
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores) Lead/senior/mid-level engineers, data scientists, BI, producers, artists, designers, more - http://www.rumblegames.com/careers Rumble is a developer and publisher of connected games. We were founded i
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Looks like a great service, unfortunate that they're subject to the HTML5/browser limitations (can't lock, etc). Is there another way to distribute their native version besides through the app store? My company use TestFlight ( https://test
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Rumble Games - Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) We're making games that will change the world of online play. We have a phenomenal team and top-notch investors: * http://www.linkedin.com/company/2326673?trk=CIWidgetCompany * http://www.c
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores) Lead/senior/mid-level engineers, data scientists, BI, producers, artists, designers, more - http://www.rumblegames.com/careers/ Rumble is a developer and publisher of connected games. We were founded
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) - Engineers and more BioWare SF is hiring! Formerly known as EA2D, we are now the online/social arm of the BioWare group. We're working on exciting projects: * Social games for gamers (from BioWare and other
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) - Engineers and more BioWare SF is hiring! Formerly known as EA2D, we are now the online/social arm of the BioWare group. We're working on exciting projects: * Social games for gamers (from BioWare and other
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) - Engineers and more EA2D is hiring! We're a new, autonomous studio within EA building cross-platform social games for gamersWe recently launched our first major game, Dragon Age Legends: http://apps.facebo
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Some of us our trying to turn that around. My studio, EA2D, has a lot of people from the startup space, so sharing is only natural. We have a small but quickly growing list of open source projects (many more in the pipeline): https://git
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by mikebabineau 15y ago
Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) - Engineers and more EA2D is hiring! We're a new, autonomous studio within EA building cross-platform social games for gamers. We've just launched our first game, Dragon Age Legends: http://apps.facebook.co
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by mikebabineau 16y ago
I wrote a blog post on exactly this topic: http://dev.bizo.com/2010/05/improving-global-application.htm... Basically, you're on the right track. Note Route 53 doesn't support GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing... e.g., different DNS resu
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by mikebabineau 16y ago
These savings can only come after the cost-of-living overhead. It's important to note that average salary does not scale 1:1 with cost of living. Depending on your finances, a 20% bump in pay with a 40% increase in cost of living may lower