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by ruben81adelaide 4y ago
The things started to go from bad to worse when work_mem parameter has not been set up correctly. Some queries that requires a large amount of memory to process started to use disk. Once the autoscaling kicked in, even if we would have real
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by ruben81adelaide 4y ago
@fxtentacle I agree with you. This actually makes a lot of sense. Probably the title reflected the anger and frustration that I was feeling after the poor support. Actually the company that is being migrated to AWS is quite large, but not l
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by ruben81adelaide 4y ago
@evil-olive Thanks for your feedback. Aurora is something that we would definitely look in the future, but with the levels of workload that we are currently experiencing postgres RDS should work for quite a long time. > CockroachDB or C
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by ruben81adelaide 4y ago
> run out of burstable IOPS but RDS is still partway through a background mirror operation. This is a very good point. Will check. > If you have RDS Enhanced Monitoring turned on do look at these metrics. We don't have it enable
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by ruben81adelaide 4y ago
> Does Cloudwatch confirm that RDS "needed" to scale? Actually you pointed out to a clue that I missed. I should have checked cloud watch! The free space graphs shows that at some point something got the 200 GB of space that we
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by ruben81adelaide 4y ago
@synicalx thanks for your feedback. I will see if there is anything visible in Cloud Watch. > - Other than the (presumably) one change made to that RDS instance at ~4.30AM, were there any other changes made to it, specifically to its sto
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by ruben81adelaide 4y ago
@tus666 thanks for the tip. "Collapsing Under it's Own Weight" is more accurate.
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AWS RDS Postmortem: Is AWS Collapsing Under its Own Weight ?
27 points by ruben81adelaide 4y ago|18 comments
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
There are 3 types of programming languages you can learn: Modular programming, Object oriented, and Functional programming Python- it has a very simple syntax and it’s easy to learn. It can be used for modular programming and object orient
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
From my working experience in Spain, "error" is a more generic term. The word "bug" is commonly used to specify an error in the software.
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
Back up with a fix: https://twitter.com/DOStatus
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
You would expect that a company as big as they are to update their status page as well...Anyhow, at least they communicate via twitter.
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
Yes, they are down again. They had some downtime a few weeks back as well in the NYC3 region.
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
Yes, I monitor about 1000 servers in Digital Ocean in New York, London and Singapore. Only New York went down for about 1 hour and a couple of hours later the global DNS system in DO went down as well for about 15 min. They initially didn&#
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
They don’t mention other benefits rather than just the pay package. And nowadays, not allowing remote work.
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
If the containers are truly inmutable, the application has been designed for horizontal scalability and the automation is right, it doesn’t make any difference to manage 5 containers or 1000 containers. The same applies for virtual machines
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
I’ve pretty much been working non-stop since I was 18. I started self-learning when I was 14 and found a job as a programmer a few years after. I’ve only taken a long break when I decided to quit my full time job to create my own company.
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
In my professional lifetime, I have developed several technologies. Most of them as a hobby, and about 90% become fully functional and production ready. Some of them got sold; some others went nowhere. Overall, those projects have not made
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
I agree, Vanguard is one of the best funds with low commissions. Nowadays there's no point putting your money in a bank account, so I looked into ways of investing the money. After carefully considering different options, I decided thi
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
Try the CCNA course of CISCO, “The Complete Network Fundamentals”. I did one of those years ago. It’s a great course to achieve a good base of networking. CCNA is just the first step to a good introduction, if you like it, you can expand yo
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by ruben81adelaide 5y ago
It depends on the company culture and its maturity towards software development. Good PM if they know the product inside out and they have a good insight on how development works provides a lot of value. However there are some companies tha