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by rcrowley 4y ago
Author of the article here: I agree. GCP projects are a better abstraction. I still think AWS is, on balance, a better cloud.
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Have lots of AWS accounts(src-bin.com)
228 points by rcrowley 4y ago|169 comments
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by rcrowley 5y ago
Nebula transits every EC2-to-EC2 packet at Slack, across lots of AWS regions and tens of thousands of hosts. It’s probably doing petabits of traffic per second. And it’s a safer, more expressive firewall than EC2 security groups. So, yes, i
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by rcrowley 12y ago
The "Don’t Measure Everything (YAGNI)" paragraph is particularly true.
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by rcrowley 14y ago
Betable's license number from the UK Gambling Commission http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk is 000-023328-R-307313-003. We're audited (by GLI, incidentally) against their codes of practice.
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by rcrowley 14y ago
We're audited multiple times a year. Our UK Gambling Commission license compels us to be audited against their codes of practice and additionally we have the correctness and security of our systems audited independently.
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by rcrowley 14y ago
The comments suggesting Wash U's CS program has (too much of) an academic slant have a point but also miss it entirely. In my experience, the academic is certainly emphasized over the pragmatic (for example, lots of talk about algorithmic
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by rcrowley 15y ago
VPC is definitely more like real hardware than EC2 but I take that as evidence VPC is premature optimization rather than support for undertaking this sort of migration.
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by rcrowley 15y ago
A+++ WOULD CONTEXT SWITCH AGAIN!
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by rcrowley 15y ago
Many of these (most notably, the constructor stuff) could be summarized as "don't use Java."
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by rcrowley 15y ago
Gotta drive dat blog traffic.
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by rcrowley 15y ago
The mere existence of Loader, Manager, Handler, Factory, and the like classes/methods indicate a lack of expressive power in Java's constructors.
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by rcrowley 15y ago
I think this is an instance of one of the hard problems in computer science: naming things. When thinking about "-er" names to avoid, think about "Executor" and its ilk. Contrast that with this example and I see "APIHelper" and "ModelFetch
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by rcrowley 15y ago
I/O is always the problem.
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by rcrowley 15y ago
EveryDNS was the best. I switched last week to Rackspace Cloud DNS which, as best I can tell, is free(ish). The DNS manager is hidden away within Hosting -> Cloud Servers -> (any random server) but accepts arbitrary records. No pr
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by rcrowley 15y ago
Is anyone else shocked to see Microsoft doing something horribly backwards-incompatible AND standards compliant all at once?
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by rcrowley 15y ago
Cool story, bro. You saw Robert Scoble!
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by rcrowley 15y ago
I'm the other founder of DevStructure. True story: I met Matt in the Slicehost IRC in 2007.
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by rcrowley 15y ago
Note well: domain specific languages are not the same thing as Ruby APIs.
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by rcrowley 15y ago
Mongo is by many measures worse than "a folder with clear text files."
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by rcrowley 15y ago
Because Python 2.4 is still AWESOME!
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by rcrowley 16y ago
Richard from DevStructure here. You're right about a lot of your criticism: the setup.sh process is not ideal. I do think it is preferable to pointing someone at packages.devstructure.com and saying, "Good luck!" We'll be changing shortly
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by rcrowley 16y ago
Because worse is better.