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by sciurus 5y ago
Their solution was to introduce entropy into the beginning of the object names, which used to be AWS's recommendation for how to ensure objects are placed in different partitions. AWS claims this is no longer necessary, although how th
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by sciurus 5y ago
It's an interesting question if the percentage of users with telemetry disabled has increased a meaningful amount over time. Mozilla has actually done some work to measure users with telemetry disabled; see the "telemetry coverage
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by sciurus 5y ago
Those are all valid points, but Mozilla's own telemetry shows their userbase shrinking. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
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by sciurus 5y ago
Your timeline is off, FWIW. Brendan Eich resigned in 2104 and was replaced by Chris Beard as CEO from 2014 through 2019. Mitchell Baker became CEO in 2020.
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The Delivery Hero Reliability Manifesto(tech.deliveryhero.com)
2 points by sciurus 5y ago|0 comments
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Belonging to Amazon’s Principal Engineering Community(medium.com)
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by sciurus 5y ago
As someone who used to work for a bioinformatics lab, I'm confused by this tweet. The storage now being limited is for Gsuite- Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc. These aren't the products you'
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by sciurus 5y ago
For a purely mechanical change like this, someone could run black against the same revision of Django and verify the changes they see locally match the changes in this PR.
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by sciurus 5y ago
For anyone looking for more explanation of this feature: https://michaelheap.com/git-ignore-rev/
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AWS AZs: Not all are Equal (2021)(wolfman.dev)
24 points by sciurus 5y ago|5 comments
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Taking This Serially(computer.rip)
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The Rise of ClickOps(lastweekinaws.com)
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by sciurus 5y ago
I haven't used it, but on the surface AWS seems to be finally targeting Heroky's simplicity directly with App Runner. https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/
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by sciurus 5y ago
> My argument is that Firefox should have functionality equivalent to uBlock Origin by default It largely does. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
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by sciurus 5y ago
They recently announced readable standby instances. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/readable-standby-insta...
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by sciurus 5y ago
Three people sharing a personal account, with one of them frequently traveling internationally, is such an unusual usage pattern that I'd be really disappointed with a service provider if they _didn't_ flag it for extra verificati
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by sciurus 5y ago
I think extensible open-source load testing tools like https://k6.io and https://locust.io are already replacing JMeter.
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by sciurus 5y ago
Approaches vary company-to-company, but https://response.pagerduty.com/ is a good resource for understanding how it often looks.
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by sciurus 5y ago
As someone else said, your math is off. Your point is still reasonable, though. The uptime.is website is a handy resource for these calculations. For example, http://uptime.is/99.9 says "SLA level of 99.9 % uptime&#x2F
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by sciurus 5y ago
This is remarkably different from how a previous employer of mine treated HN. When we were on the front page, the most frequent internal response was to quote from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1
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by sciurus 5y ago
My wife and I have the Dropbox app installed on our phones, which automatically uploads all photos to that service (Remote Copy 1). I have the Dropbox app installed on a desktop computer which is always running and syncing (Local Copy 1). O
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by sciurus 5y ago
Hugs to all the Firefox developers and SREs who investigated this. Bring on the front lines for such a crucial and complex piece of software and associated infrastructure is tough.
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by sciurus 5y ago
My employer-provided computer runs multiple agents. They're only used for security auditing as far as I can tell. One of them is reporting all the processes I'm running. Certain keywords will trigger IT to reach out to investigate
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by sciurus 5y ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/google-stadias-salva...
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by sciurus 5y ago
FWIW on multiple browsers on several different computers I've never had Google docs take anywhere close to 15 seconds to load.
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by sciurus 5y ago
> There are some engineers that are so good at solving problems that they can be dropped into any crisis situation and help fix it... Those are your PEs. I agree that "the solver" is one flavor of the role, but I think there ar
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by sciurus 5y ago
You might find https://staffeng.com/guides/what-do-staff-engineers-actually... interesting.
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Stand-Up Meetings Are Dead (and What to Do Instead)(honeycomb.io)
3 points by sciurus 5y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 5y ago
This is cool. I also like https://www.solarham.net/
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by sciurus 5y ago
See for instance the client request rejection probability equation at https://sre.google/sre-book/handling-overload/

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