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by nhoughto 5y ago
yeah seems like a strange thing to want to turn into a popularity contest.
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by nhoughto 5y ago
yep agreed, there has definitely been a big shift in priorities. When iPhones had dramatic hardware improvements every year (remember the S phones, 4s/5s etc, thats how fast things were moving) revenue was ticking up from genuine innov
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by nhoughto 5y ago
Haven’t tried it, but expect it would work, just a smaller version of doing laps Aron s a 400m track. There was also something about the movement of air too, treadmill is so stagnant (can get fan I suppose, not quite the same?)
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by nhoughto 5y ago
Treadmills are not a good experience, having only ever run outside for years, I was stuck in a hotel for a week and wanted to run, so treadmill it was. Comparing the two things I can’t understand why anyone uses a treadmill (maybe if outsid
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by nhoughto 5y ago
Reminds me of the original atlassian bamboo pipeline as code impl that had you write the pipeline as Java or Groovy, can’t remember specifically. They got dunked on for it not being a declarative file. Now we’ve got a pipeline being defined
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by nhoughto 5y ago
Would love a dive (hopefully deep) into IAM, the innards of that must be some impressive wizardry. Surprising there isn't more around about the amazing technical workings of these foundational AWS products.
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by nhoughto 6y ago
yep is a founding decision, so they can use free git/github infrastructure to run their entire backend, and someone else pays for it. To do what you describe would require hosting something outside of that, which would cost $. Reminds
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by nhoughto 6y ago
its easier to park a codebase and have it rot when its not in a monorepo where everything is assumed to be consistent/working all the time. I'd have thought you could just pull maintenance-mode products out of the monorepo tree an
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by nhoughto 6y ago
CDK is just a different way of writing cloudformation essentially, its code that is transformed into cloudformation templates, so inherits all its problems. Pulumi is more like Terraform but without HCL. So imagine instead of having to find
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Yeah it’s not _just_ 50ms cpu, there are other constraints like 50 sub requests, 6 open connections etc. Still faaairly generous, good luck getting 50 sub requests done in 50ms if you had to measure against wallclock =)
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by nhoughto 6y ago
So if I want to hook into each 4 parts of the lifecycle, I configure that and it gets executed once? Can I maintain state between inbound request->origin request->origin response->inbound response? My understanding was you can’t an
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Ah yeah makes sense. Really interesting that cf workers limit you to 50ms cpu time rather than wallclock time, makes lots of send-then-wait scenarios possible/way cheaper.
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Pretty strange world where losing 300mil to this lot is a net win to maintain the hostile patent environment against their competitors. I guess it’s pretty similar to Apple acquiring the patents and then suing competitors.. but without all
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Interesting, we’re just about to put cloudflare workers in prod and find their approach much more flexible vs lambda@edge being possibly triggered four times at edge part of a request life cycle. But this could significantly reduce cost if
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by nhoughto 6y ago
It’s a nice idea, can’t imagine they can match the UX polish lyft and Uber deliver, which is what users expect now. What other examples are there of do-it-for-the-cause tech plays working out? Interestingly i imagine a not insignificant amo
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by nhoughto 6y ago
I was thinking, no way isn’t there a 10k container limit? Nope 300k appr ! https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-larg...
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Imagine the pressures on the temporary barrier too, and what a failure would mean. Even bigger disaster.
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Popped in to say backblaze built out a tf provider at our request and they were great about it! Got a quick early build out to test, GA build a few months later and are very responsive to feedback. Pleasure to deal with
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Yeah that’s a great read, super interesting detail. You wonder what would have happened if Apple didn’t up the limit. This post is next level though, deeep optimization. All of it is just increasing the ceiling though, there is some limit o
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Gone deep on IAM in AWS, attempted a similar thing on GCP later for another project, was very surprised how weak GCP IAM was. Top of mind things I found weak/weird: - Basically can’t do least privilege, only want a role to read message
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by nhoughto 6y ago
These are great, I found myself trying to predict the related areas, “..Slow connections..” ooh that must be conntrack! Been burnt by kube2iam too.. I guess it’s k8s failure bingo.
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by nhoughto 6y ago
most people don't even think that deeply about it, firefox and chrome are both trusted, end of thought. ease of use beats moral advantage most times (almost every time)
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by nhoughto 6y ago
If the vm is going to die, why bother killing it at all? Just “make it safe” and let gce kill it. Could you not just send a signal to the running process that it’s going to die and to hang up or save state or whatever is needed? If an Ephem
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Never seen Transit Gateway, I assume they wouldn't have this problem if it was just single VPC or done via VPC peering?
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by nhoughto 6y ago
You build an App Store if you own the platform, not just because you want to.
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Yeah the complexity is insane, millions of users is surprising tho I thought it would more be an aggregation of larger agents. I guess unicorns optimize for delivery capacity not cost
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by nhoughto 6y ago
An exchange like that by definition is quite focused on tight non functionals with slim functionals, aka it does a small number of things very well. Vs Uber which does a very wide set of things at a high level of consumer polish. In my ment
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by nhoughto 6y ago
yeah fly by night eng orgs sure, if you're DO your eng maturity (esp at this point) should be such that choices are being made knowingly, eyes open about future maintenance burden might be. If an api gateway is a foundational component
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by nhoughto 6y ago
The decision to roll their own in golang entirely and then reimplement rails auth in golang, vs reimplement auth in lua and lean on nginx for everything else could be examined more, feels a bit like they wanted to do it in golang so nginx+l
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by nhoughto 6y ago
Had 2015, have 2020 (sold a 2019) thought you can’t beat a 2015 but I like the 2020 better actually! 2015 feels spongey in comparison.

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