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by nzoschke 10y ago
Agreed. The timeline for Vesper is debatable but running a custom sync service is a dead end. Only major cloud providers, Apple, Dropbox, Google, Amazon can be relied on to run a utility service on a long timeline. The service needs to be e
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Here's some nuance to consider... If configured properly everything in an ECS stack is a service offered by AWS: AMI maintenance is a service provided by the ECS team The ASG service automates cluster side CloudWatch Logs service inges
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Strongly agree "serverless" is not well defined in general. > Reducing maintenance by not running your own platform This is my favorite technique too but it's nothing new. Heroku, App Engine and Lambda satisfy this for cus
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This is a great writeup and really demonstrates how "the cloud is the computer". As many comments point out there are other ways to do this. But doing it entirely with AWS primitives of Lambda, S3 and automatic triggers is somethi
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Perhaps we can use CloudFront to do hostname routing.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I'd love to know too. If I had to guess it's something new. They also have the newish API gateway service fronting Lambda. It wouldn't make much sense giving users their own EC2/HAProxy thing for these more dynamic load
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Take a look at Convox for setting up AWS then getting out of the way. It's open source and free aside from the base AWS costs. Disclaimer: I work at Convox.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions about how ALB could fit into our cloud architectures. Aside from growing pains for any AWS service -- figuring out how to use it and seeing how reliability it is in practice -- this seems like the
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AWS ALB Review – The Container and Microservice Load Balancer(convox.com)
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Take a look at Convox as a fast way to bootstrap managing instances, ECS, and load balancers via CloudFormation. We have ALB working already. https://github.com/convox/rack/pull/1045 Disclaimer: I work on Con
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Thanks for sharing the info. We're using CloudFormation and ECS heavily for Convox, and just can't get off a CloudFormation custom handler (Lambda func) for managing ECS task definitions and services for small reasons like this.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
The 'convox start' dev environment enables Rails dev on Docker for Mac with a custom file sync strategy. This is another case of simple solutions win... You can effectively rsync code changes without all the low level file system
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Agreed that this is a good thing. Strict dogma is bad and unsustainable. The core team has backed off from "the code is the construct" philosophy, both implicitly by executing this fork, and explicitly in other publications. It&#x
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I'd love to know the source too. But this matches what I am seeing right now as well as predicting for the future. SaaS is a powerful distribution model but IaaS has gotten so good that it's in many ways easier to run many small t
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Thanks for the tip, rollup looks really powerful. This and related comments remind me that the latest ECMA stuff offers a brighter future. The challenge is getting there... Can/will jQuery work with rollup and all the other new module
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I see his point and I think another dimension of the tooling is a root cause too... > Recently I needed a library to build query strings, just a small one so that I wouldn’t have to include jQuery just for that. After a couple of hours o
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Because in software we build platforms that let the new developers stand on the shoulders of giants. With Rails you can learn and build a web app in weeks. With AWS you can learn cloud architecture in months. Spend two years focusing on the
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Thanks for the shoutout to Convox! I'm on the core team. I understand these challenges. I wrote about a lot of them here: https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/ But we have been having tons of success on ECS
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Very nice! This looks very close to the ideal CI infrastructure. I'm used to waiting on queues and long VM or container boots and configuration on other services. We can almost certainly count on Lambda getting longer execution times a
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This. Alexa and Spotify have great integration. It's depressing to think that Spotify on Apple may never offer this.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I do see room for improvement in efficiency. Kickstarter and PayPal surely have large teams working on arbitration, review and fraud that could be delegated back to the involved parties vote with some rules. And law suits can be very ineffi
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by nzoschke 10y ago
It's not like honoring contracts is unsolved. Bookies have been doing it forever with questionable effectiveness. PayPal offers arbitration on stranger to stranger sales. Again with questionable fairness in tough cases. Kickstarter et
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by nzoschke 10y ago
As a software engineer everything here rings true to me. Use as simple of tools as possible when programming and offer many ways for mere humans to change code and review correctness and review, approve and roll back critical transactions.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Anecdotally I was in Austin for the first time a few weeks ago and it was just fine without Uber. I did all of the following: Take a yellow cab from the airport, Walk, get a ride from my AirBNB host, hail a taxi, borrow a bike, get a ride f
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This is great. Thanks for sharing. I have the same exact needs for my APIs so I might borrow this! This technique and the OP show the power of "programming errors" in Go.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I agree with this sentiment. AWS can be an overwhelming challenge for small teams. Convox (YCS15) is addressing this head on and helping lots of small teams immediately get the best out of AWS. It's open source, built by a core team an
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I think/hope that remote friendly engineering companies will help with this. I'm working at a fully-distributed startup, and while it's all male currently, 50% of the team are dads with young kids and don't have to make
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This looks great. I'm particularly excited about the CloudFormation support. If you're managing stuff on AWS without CloudFormation you're missin out on one of the most powerful features of the platform. CF can be pretty hard
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I'm always in awe and grateful for the teams like CoreOS that tackle these tough problems. But when it comes to container storage I'm confused. The 12 factor app methodologies work very well for every service I have written and su
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by nzoschke 10y ago
San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami and Sheffield UK. Distributed team so REMOTE encouraged. Convox (YC S15) is hiring support and system engineers to help us build out simple and reliable open source dev ops tools and platform. The cofounders ar

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