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by pquerna 15y ago
Author here: Yes, the README is aspirational, its a checklist for myself. I put the STATUS line there for everyone else, but it appears no one actually reads it. (Heck, not one other person on HN actually tried it out, because it sure as
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by pquerna 15y ago
I mentioned ASN.1 DER, but I honestly didn't think I should go into a history of XDR or other encodings. I guess I can't skip any history in a blog post....
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by pquerna 15y ago
And during an acquisition GPL'ed software dependencies is at the very least a yellow flag to be fully investigated....
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by pquerna 15y ago
San Francisco, CA – interns, remote, h1b, whatever….. Rackspace http://www.rackertalent.com/san-francisco Here at Rackspace in San Francisco we are hiring across the board. We are looking for Python/Django Engineers, Front-End Javascript
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by pquerna 15y ago
I wrote this up awhile ago for how to do this in pure httpd configuration: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2009/08/24/downtime-...
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by pquerna 15y ago
They are using TLS to assume that the client authenticates the server is who it says it is -- if you can man in the middle TLS, there are lots of other possible exploits besides this signature one.
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by pquerna 15y ago
Having yet another HTTP Authentication and Signature scheme really isn't adding value to the world. It's too bad this couldn't model the Keystone token authentication API that OpenStack is doing: http://keystone.openstack.org/ Or say, hec
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How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation(perfcap.blogspot.com)
5 points by pquerna 15y ago|0 comments
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by pquerna 15y ago
Maybe. Protobuffers or Thrift can definitely be smaller in byte size, which does matter somewhat, but JSON right now is just more easily accessible. I think in a few years, assuming JSON logging really takes off, you'll see people using the
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Log for Machines(journal.paul.querna.org)
55 points by pquerna 15y ago|28 comments
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by pquerna 15y ago
Go's core packages are good. Go's not-in-core packages are a mixed bag. Lots of "one off" experiment projects. Which is fine, thats where it is in its life. Node.js was in the same place packages wise 18 months ago. Additionally, at the t
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by pquerna 15y ago
The state of the spreadsheet wasn't constant. We played with the weights. What I posted was just where it was left after a meeting 9 months ago. Yes, we definitely weight against our feelings of how we failed to employee Twisted Python. Th
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by pquerna 15y ago
No, we were not able to find everything we needed out of the box. We had to write many things. There is a list of our dependencies at the bottom of this post: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/17/technolog... Having said th
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by pquerna 15y ago
(author here) Big Brother is pretty cool. I remember using it long ago too :) I certainly respect the simplicity of BigBrother, but the scopes of the products are completely different. Rackspace Cloud Monitoring is a SaaS built with the ab
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The switch: Python to Node.js(journal.paul.querna.org)
207 points by pquerna 15y ago|134 comments
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Technology behind Rackspace Cloud Monitoring(journal.paul.querna.org)
59 points by pquerna 15y ago|3 comments
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by pquerna 15y ago
At a guess, things like nation wide authentication servers? (I don't know how devices are authenticated in LTE though)
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by pquerna 15y ago
Yes, they are binding to a C client, include the existing node-zookeeper: https://github.com/yfinkelstein/node-zookeeper The C client isn't what I would call great, and the API surface is fairly complicated for languages to bind to -- you
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by pquerna 15y ago
We have a difficult time saying NO. Right now, Adobe has not even submitted a proposal to the incubator -- just blog posts about how they intend to submit it. I eagerly await their submission of a Flex proposal. Part of the proposal, and c
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by pquerna 15y ago
HN is truncating them display wise, if you click on them they work :-/ (can't edit anymore to make em URL shortened)
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by pquerna 15y ago
Rackspace Hosting, San Francisco Rackspace is looking for various roles right now in our new location in SOMA (previously we were in the pre-acquisition Cloudkick Office): * Node.js: For some really sweet distributed systems, looking for go
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by pquerna 15y ago
You assume that he likes what he created. In this rant he didn't say Node.js was the solution, or better than any of these crappy abstractions. Don't assume that. He might not say he doesn't like node.js, but it doesn't mean he is happy wi
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by pquerna 15y ago
(disclaimer, I work at Rackspace via the Cloudkick acquisition) re: 2) There is a product called RackConnect, which can bridge the public cloud which has API based provisioning, and physical servers: http://www.rackspace.com/hosting_soluti
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by pquerna 15y ago
You should read this thread, about an incident last fall: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875718 She named names, and was given so much grief because of that.
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by pquerna 15y ago
I would prefer that node was part of a non-profit foundation of some kind rather than Joyent, but that is largely under the bridge at this point. It was discussed heavily when this change was made in november 2010: http://markmail.org/mes
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by pquerna 15y ago
Runit runs just fine on top of FreeBSD and OSX (and Should work on OpenSolaris / OpenIndinana, though i don't have personal experience). Nothing in cast itself is really linux specific, it should all work on any Unixy-enough OS, and we have
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by pquerna 15y ago
Yes, Under the law, H1B workers must be paid the higher of the prevailing wage or the actual wage. This gets messy because for H1Bs it is difficult to move between jobs, so it is harder for them to get raises, etc, but thats another whole s
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by pquerna 15y ago
That is the point though, the #1 Fallacies of Distributed Computing: The network is reliable. There is no such thing as a well designed and maintained LAN. All networks are unreliable.
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by pquerna 15y ago
There are more general issues at AWS this morning, but the continuing issues all center around EBS. I think this is just reinforcing to me to never use a networked filesystem. It is the wrong abstraction for storing data across multiple ph
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by pquerna 16y ago
Ah, good point, Node already does this, but I'll append the post to mention it.

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