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by nzoschke 10y ago
I'm working on an OSS project, Convox, that makes a production AWS / VPC / ECS / Docker system trivial. http://github.com/convox/rack It's similar to elastic beanstalk in that it gives you a gr
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by nzoschke 10y ago
For debugging, use the CloudWatch Logs FilterLogEvents API http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIRe... It makes it trivial to tail, filter and range all the logs in a log group. That plus some
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Herokus performance dynos might fit the bill. They are really fast to spin up. Joyent's Triton is pretty interesting for running one off docker containers though last time I tried it took a variable number of seconds to start one.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
For docs, here is a 350 page developer guide: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-dg.pdf The "Programming Model (Python)" section addresses the OPs complaints about documentation.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I know this phrase from the electronic music artist Fatboy Slim's "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat" (Warning, explicit lyrics) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBoRkg5-Ieg It's a fun dance song, but the literal to
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Agree. I'm building software in Go and using the AWS DynamoDB service. Lots of performance, minimal operations. Easy to manage tons of installs of this software. It's not impossible to scale RoR and Postgres but there are architec
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Scaling a multi-tenant service is an incredibly hard problem. Resource contention and noisy neighbors require incredibly sophisticated systems to work around. Automating many smaller, isolated systems is much easier. This is another trend t
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I see this as an upcoming trend in all SaaS. Across the industry, the cost of resources is headed towards zero. Blame it on Amazon and Google who are making online compute, memory and storage ridiculously inexpensive if you know how to use
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by nzoschke 10y ago
It is extremely common to date in the workplace. People express interest and people accept or refuse it all the time. When there is kindness and respect involved there is no problem. We don't here about any of these events. It's s
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Lawyer is good advice. If it's not acceptable in the company then you should tell him to leave. If you don't you poison your culture. The employee now knows that she will still need to "deal with" harassment at this orga
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by nzoschke 10y ago
convox services add [sns|sqs|s3] Is a thing. Automatic provisioning services should be easy. Your rack and all your apps and services are CloudFormation stacks. We favor CloudFormation over terraform for the same reason, it's a managed
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I can tell CF is really great these days and making companies really successful. My impression is that it is a killer enterprise platform but really heavy for a lot of use cases. Do you see small teams adopting it and setting it up and main
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by nzoschke 10y ago
One of the core values of convox engineering is that services are better than software. We do not run dbs as containers other than for dev or testing. 'convox services add postgres' and 'convox services add redis' provis
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Empire is great. That team really knows what they are doing too. CloudFoundry and Deis are other open source PaaS projects. Swarm, Mesos and Kubernetes are other open source schedulers on top of which you can build a deployment system.
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I recently wrote up a lot about this: https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/ TL:dr it works very well. It's very flexible. But Amazon is still very hard for a lot of reasons. One piece of data to share is th
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by nzoschke 10y ago
The business model is around a closed management console service: console.convox.com. We sell features for teams like workflows and auditing as a monthly subscription. We also sell some support plans all the way up to some hefty professiona
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by nzoschke 10y ago
The biggest difference is that Convox is Convox... AWS is awesome but their values might not exactly align with your organization. There are general advantages to letting the Convox team and community guide you through your cloud journey. W
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I'd say Elastic Beanstalk is the most direct "competition" because it his the same points: * Simple * Configures AWS resources uniformly run your app * Uses Docker Some advantages to using Convox instead of Elastic Beanstalk:
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Makes sense. Convox uses containers and images everywhere behind the scenes. But containers are a means not an end. In general people want automated and reliable deployments.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Workflow / app / developer focused. With convox you deal with `apps`, `certs`, `builds` and `logs`. All the low level details are hidden. I think most people dont want to or shouldn't worry about "containers".
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Docker. Docker is working incredibly well in production and in development, particularly if you use only a subset of its features. We're relying on Docker as much as possible for building and deploying your apps.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
A datacenter rack is indeed the etymology of the name. Naming is hard. "Convox" is the company and platform. Rack is a project code name but it is a noun you come across when using the platform too. For example the 'convox ra
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by nzoschke 10y ago
One of the maintainers of Convox/rack here... A few important differences between Convox and other options in the space. AWS only. We use lots of AWS services to piggy back on all the reliability AWS has baked in. For example we use Dy
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Have taxis gotten better at mobile dispatch in Austin?
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The big advantages I see: AWS ecosystem. Everyone is already running stuff here, or wants to. Particularly data. If I have important stuff in RDS or Redshift I want to run my apps in a VPC next to that. Managed service. I don't want to
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by nzoschke 10y ago
For Kubernetes vs Mesos vs Swarm vs other container schedulers you should pick the one that has the maturity, reliability and operational overhead that your team is comfortable taking on. An important dimension is the data store. These all
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This is extremely cool. I'm starting to see a serious new trend, where automating around IaaS can completely eliminate the need for SaaS. Why pay for a subscription comment service when it can be implemented as a script in the cloud th
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Very interesting. How do I know what I value as an employer? Edit to my own question.... The 7 genome dimensions looks really reasonable. But hypothetically thinking I still want it all!
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by nzoschke 10y ago
San Francisco, Atlanta 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 devops tools and platform. Us cofounders are ex Hero
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Claude Shannon is my favorite scientist too. He made break throughs in the most literal sense. Everything was different after The Mathematical Theory of Communication. I feel lucky and proud to have studied his work, through the lens of sig

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