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by nethergoat 16y ago
In the interest of scratching my own itch, I've written an app that automatically graphs Amazon CloudWatch metrics. I'm making it free for all to use. EC2 customers with Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling Groups should find it especi
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Ask HN: Review my app, cloudgrapher.com (Amazon CloudWatch dashboard)(cloudgrapher.com)
7 points by nethergoat 16y ago|1 comments
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by nethergoat 17y ago
It's a stylistic choice, so opinions vary, but the simplest guide I've found is to simply check the intended pronunciation. If you would pronounce the 's as its own syllable, include it (e.g., "Chris's"); it not, don't (e.g., "Mephistophel
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by nethergoat 17y ago
On a related note, one of the authors of Selenium IDE founded a startup called BrowserMob ( http://browsermob.com/ ) that uses Selenium recordings for load testing and monitoring. Great guys there, and a fantastic service. I've been a cust
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Bizo ( http://bizo.com ) is hiring a Web/UI/UX Designer in downtown San Francisco. Essentially, we need someone to own design and usability for everything we do. Full description here: http://bit.ly/adbvhQ Bizo is a year and a half old
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Introducing Cloudviz, an open source tool for graphing Amazon CloudWatch data(dev.bizo.com)
5 points by nethergoat 17y ago|0 comments
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by nethergoat 17y ago
How is this any different from a large corporation? Having been on both sides, I'd argue that Amazon's mean time to response/resolution is as good as or better than what is generally seen in silo'd enterprise shops (provided you pay for AW
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by nethergoat 17y ago
How much traffic was each LB seeing? The use of round-robin DNS does not always result in an even distribution of traffic.
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Deepak Singh of Amazon Web Services maintains a great list of (cloud-focused) parallel computing frameworks and platforms: http://deepaksingh.net/Resources/Computing_in_the_Cloud He's on twitter, too: http://twitter.com/mndoci
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by nethergoat 17y ago
I just joined the Bizo team three weeks ago. Great company, fantastic people (~15 total now), and, as Donnie said, we're growing very quickly. Bonus points for foosball, ping pong, or GH/RB skills.
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Note that this feature is (for now, at least) designed to add weight to content _created_ by your social circle. It does not, as I first thought, modify your search results based on friends' preferences. From Google's FAQ: "Google Social S
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Yes, just over 1.5 years at ShareThis. ~150 nodes managed by RightScale for ~$4000/mo (Premium account plus an add-on account for developers). In this case, the "managing" includes rich metadata, server provisioning, configuration managem
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Per the comments below the article, you can disable this by disabling the 'send anonymous usage statistics' option.
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Another commenter addressed the point about 1TB drives. I'd like to help on the bandwidth side. A T1 is simply not adequate for a web company for two reasons: 1) it is a high-impact single point of failure (any issue here results in 100% o
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by nethergoat 17y ago
You're right, that's not all they have. 22 is the number of m2.2xlarge nodes they run. There's no mention of how many other nodes they have running. That being said, given how many toy, no-traffic apps are likely running (for free!) on th
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Agreed, that's a whole lot of eggs in one basket. I'd be interested to hear their reason for not spreading across multiple availability zones. My first thought was that m2.2xlarge nodes, since they're relatively new, might still be restri
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Customer Development and the Lean Startup(recessmobile.com)
8 points by nethergoat 17y ago|0 comments
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by nethergoat 17y ago
As someone who has spent the last year and a half running a 200-(persistent)node environment on EC2, including multiple m1.large and m1.xlarge DB pools, I can assure you those stories stem from FUD and unreasonable expectations. Yes, EBS is
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by nethergoat 17y ago
I'm not a member, but this looks promising: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=86116&trk=anetsrch_na...
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by nethergoat 17y ago
The big guns like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are sure bets. Social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn also have large ML teams and probably have decent internship programs. Many startups also have similar interships - try http://ventur
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Given that S3 must be used as the origin, I suspect live streaming is not possible at this time (S3 does not support streaming upload).
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by nethergoat 17y ago
http://highscalability.com/ is a great resource for building scalable sites - it has consolidated architectural details (culled from presentations, blog posts, interviews, and more) for many large-scale sites (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, e
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by nethergoat 17y ago
This is tremendously useful and lowers the barrier to entry for new adopters. Unfortunately, it's also a temptation to make poor design decisions. One of the key benefits of EC2 and other cloud offerings is that, in a properly automated en
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by nethergoat 17y ago
The author, Pete Skomoroch ( http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch ), will be giving a talk about TrendingTopics.org at Hadoop World NYC this Friday. Registration is still open ($400): http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-world-nyc
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by nethergoat 17y ago
My company (startup, ~25 employees) also used the free version for several months (late '08 and early '09) but were disappointed with the sound quality (we, too, never tried the paid version). We used GoToMeeting for several months as well,
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by nethergoat 17y ago
"Today’s incident also shows the fragility of the 'cloud' as it can be knocked out a single lightening strike." How is this different from any other data center? Note too that on EC2, your instances will be spread randomly throughout the f
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by nethergoat 17y ago
Dolores Labs has great blog posts on some data mining and visualization experiments, definitely worth checking out: http://blog.doloreslabs.com/ Glad to see they're hosting a MTurk meetup. I'd love to attend, but it conflicts with anothe
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Why ShareThis Uses Amazon EC2(nytimes.com)
8 points by nethergoat 17y ago|0 comments
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by nethergoat 17y ago
We have several application components that use software load balancers (HAProxy) so we can manually scale each component quickly. The load balancing service will let us shut down each of those instances for a decent savings. Our QA envir
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by nethergoat 17y ago
For those already in decent shape, here's a way to maximizing the use of those 20 minutes: high-intensity interval training (HIIT - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_trainin... ). The basic premise is to alternate betwe

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