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by rbranson 9y ago
> Seriously, we have way too much criminalization of things that should be civil violations already. Do you think that perhaps this has to do with the much larger pool of resources put behind criminal prosecution vs civil?
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by rbranson 9y ago
Except that grep and make have continued to be augmented over time?
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by rbranson 9y ago
> "Don't ever let me disable 2FA" setting. Wouldn't this be possible to circumvent if the user is allowed to switch TOTP devices? Are you saying you'd like a way to irrevocably tie this to a single TOTP secret? A
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Tool-assisted speed run of GORILLAS.BAS(youtube.com)
3 points by rbranson 9y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 9y ago
This is an idea that I _want_ to believe, but the piece lacks substance. The author seems insistent that this is universal truth, but doesn’t provide any examples outside of Uber and (barely) Facebook. What other companies are out there tha
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The Right Way to Manage Secrets in AWS(segment.com)
25 points by rbranson 9y ago|1 comments
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by rbranson 9y ago
I'd argue that there were even larger lifestyle improvements during the industrial revolution period before 1970 and real wages also grew substantially.
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by rbranson 9y ago
99% of Netflix bytes are largely served from Netflix's own CDN + a cadre of third party CDNs. The bytes to/from AWS isn't trivial by itself but relatively negligible compared to video traffic.
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by rbranson 9y ago
(Former Facebook employee) The VAST majority of online serving code at Facebook is written in Hack (PHP) and is part of a gigantic codebase called fbwww. Backend services that do heavy lifting (mostly search, feed ranking, ad matching, TAO,
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by rbranson 9y ago
You are suffering from survivorship bias here. Most companies don't make it through such trying times, but those you cite succeeded against the odds to become these seemingly unstoppable behemoths. It is true that all these high-growth
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by rbranson 9y ago
[Author here: Hey there Theodore -- first of all thank you so much for that other comment with first-hand knowledge about Apollo => UUID. This is the kind of priceless nugget that makes HN such an interesting place.] From a systems persp
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by rbranson 9y ago
One thing to remember in all of this is that services like OneLogin are likely a huge upgrade in security for their customers. They lower the barriers for moving away from things like shared passwords and poorly functioning in-house SSO set
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by rbranson 10y ago
I think you're confusing economies of scale with network effects. For example, a hotel chain is more valuable if it has a global presence because it can leverage that to create customer loyalty. That is not a network effect. To the con
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by rbranson 10y ago
No worries! I'm not super into self-promotion, but I do think my background is relevant in this case. Either way, the decisions that go into a strategy like this involve a mountain of variables.
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by rbranson 10y ago
I've operated on-prem and colo physical data centers. I've also been part of larger companies where someone else deploys baremetal on my behalf. I've been running infrastructure on top of AWS off-and-on since 2008. I've
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by rbranson 10y ago
Some of the minimum commits aren't exactly standard. I'd talk more about them but they're covered by non-disclosure. I see what you mean by the multiplier effect increasing our bargaining position — totally makes sense.
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by rbranson 10y ago
Yikes. I've only really had true production experience with AWS. I guess all clouds aren't made the same.
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by rbranson 10y ago
That was definitely part of the effort; it just doesn't make for terribly compelling technical content. We have a healthy, active relationship with our AWS team. They worked with us to put in place minimum commits for several products,
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by rbranson 10y ago
I can't comment on Azure, but most of the complaints about networking issues in AWS went away when they redesigned their networks around an SDN model with VPC. We see consistent <1ms RTTs within region, and <300µs within availabi
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by rbranson 10y ago
This might sound a bit extreme, but contrary to most FRR pieces this is garbage advice. Startups should focus first on getting their product-market fit before trying to future-proof themselves from a future that doesn't yet exist.
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by rbranson 10y ago
This was a pretty recent change. Netflix has classically relied on third-party CDN providers. They launched the streaming service in 2007, and it took them 9 years to move 100% of their traffic to their own CDN infrastructure. That said, th
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by rbranson 10y ago
For downstream partners I mean data flows from user -> Segment -> partner. Event data is ingested through our API & SDKs, and this is fed to partner's APIs. For Cloud Sources, generally data is pulled from partners using thei
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by rbranson 10y ago
Totally. If the growth rate is reasonable (<50% y/y) and haven't really broken beyond what can be done on a single machine, using AWS or GCE or Azure is a ludicrous decision, short of a "serverless" style architecture
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by rbranson 10y ago
You are totally right. This was an oversight that we didn't catch during our review process. Thanks so much for the tip, we've updated the post.
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by rbranson 10y ago
Thanks for the warm feedback! We currently have an internal project underway to detect hot keys in our pipeline and collapse back-to-back writes before they're written out to DynamoDB. It's difficult to apply throttling on these c
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by rbranson 10y ago
It could be if our workload was relatively stable and there were spare engineering cycles to undertake a migration and all that this entailed. Neither of these is the case. Much of what allowed us to implement these savings quickly with a s
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by rbranson 10y ago
The hour estimates are off by at least an order of magnitude. Not included is the infrastructure necessary to ship something like Instagram (testing, monitoring, deployment, beta, etc), even if you leave the massive scale of Instagram out o
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by rbranson 10y ago
There is also PgQ from the https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SkyTools package, which is fantastic and mature. It's like Kafka inside your PostgreSQL. When I was at Instagram, we implemented a multi-region cache inv
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by rbranson 11y ago
if you include space, power, HVAC, and networking?
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by rbranson 11y ago
Curious why performance is a big factor for a disassembler?

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