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by seldo 14y ago
And if things are really broken, green with a little "i" icon next to it.
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by seldo 14y ago
While Amazon do indeed say that multi-AZ is the way to go, their last 3 major incidents (including last year's cloudpocalypse) have all been full-region incidents. IMHO, their biggest design problem is that they build their systems on top o
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by seldo 14y ago
I dunno about you, but I could use a TL;DR for this: 1. They fucked up an internal DNS change and didn't notice 2. Internal systems on EBS hosts piled up with messages trying to get to the non-existent domain 3. Eventually the messages used
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by seldo 14y ago
As Ewantoo mentioned, ITR is pretty unreliable. We have found it works as a relative measure -- when their packet loss rises, we do indeed see consumer traffic fall, though usually not by the amount their graphs would indicate.
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by seldo 14y ago
The problem with ELBs is that they are themselves EC2 instances and use many of the global services for detecting load, scaling up, etc.. Like all of AWS's value-added services, they are therefore more likely to fail during an outage even
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by seldo 14y ago
Those who know me will laugh to see me continuing to beat this dead horse, but this is a really great example of why ORM+scaffolding is an anti-pattern, by which I mean it seems like a good idea at first, but the costs outweigh the benefits
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by seldo 14y ago
Don't be mean.
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Foundry Group companies holding joint recruiting event in San Francisco(feld.com)
2 points by seldo 14y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 14y ago
BREAKING: hacker nerd who has had nothing to do with Apple for 3 decades takes positions markedly different from Apple orthodoxy. Woz always takes very predictably pro-hacker positions; I'm not clear why we regard it as news when he does.
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by seldo 14y ago
awe.sm - San Francisco, CA - H1B okay We're looking for a developer experience lead; a longer job description is here: http://jobs.awe.sm/apply/iXa9QF/Developer-Experience-Lead.ht... In a nutshell, we are a platform that lets apps capture
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by seldo 14y ago
It's definitely not one load balancer, but nor is it 70krps distributed across 2000 servers. I also think having only one per datacenter would be a bit risky -- I'd have at least 2. It's very frustrating that the article doesn't make clear
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by seldo 14y ago
They can't possibly mean 2000 of the beefy servers described as being the load-balancers, or it wouldn't be impressive at all. But it's very frustrating that the article gives the specs of the load balancers without saying how many of them
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by seldo 14y ago
To be fair, all the checks are running in JavaScript on your browser -- your passphrase never leaves your computer. Feel free to packet-sniff to verify :-)
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by seldo 14y ago
How come it doesn't recognize punctuated words like "don't"?
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by seldo 14y ago
Second this. The temptation to rewrite from scratch is to be avoided; the code is going to be a mass of edge-cases, and you can't spot them all at once. Rewriting will take just as long as refactoring and introduce new bugs instead of killi
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Endeavour will be flying over SF at 9.30am today(sfist.com)
2 points by seldo 14y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 14y ago
Ah, gotcha. But still Google's map data, not some new source, yes?
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by seldo 14y ago
Forgive me for not checking this myself as I'm on a mobile device, but isn't this just a wrapper to Google's map API?
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by seldo 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B okay. 50% of traffic is now driven by social media, and referrer information is increasingly useless with mobile clients and HTTPS. Traditional web analytics doesn't work for social traffic. So awe.sm is bu
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by seldo 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B okay. With 50% of traffic is now driven by social media, and referrer information increasingly useless with mobile clients and HTTPS, traditional web analytics are no longer working. awe.sm is building full
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by seldo 14y ago
In this case Bezos is donating to a group that is trying to popularize a particular law, which will soon be voted on by the population of Washington state at large -- so he's trying to buy the opinion of the people. It is also relatively co
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Dear Internet, from Flickr(flickr.com)
36 points by seldo 14y ago|1 comments
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by seldo 14y ago
I believe MySQL's working directory is on EBS, so yes, even temporary tables would be on EBS -- don't quote me on that, though. Re: outages, we use multiple replicated servers in different availability zones -- an outage is usually (though
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by seldo 14y ago
Speaking theoretically, Dynamo is some really clever tech built by some very smart people -- it's clear that Amazon are using something very similar internally, so it must work in practice. Beyond that I've no direct experience with it or i
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by seldo 14y ago
The short answer is that we believe running your own instances gives better performance and reliability than RDS. However, the cost is complexity: I'm a relatively experienced DBA, and we've since hired a second person with deep MySQL exper
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by seldo 14y ago
AWS has more than one DB option. http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ SimpleDB is a non-relational store that automatically indexes everything, but can only store up to 10GB. It's very flexible but limited, good for prototyping. http://aws.am
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You're more than the Fucking Janitor: thoughts on startup leadership(jonathanhstrauss.com)
9 points by seldo 14y ago|2 comments
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by seldo 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B okay. With 50% of traffic now driven by social media, and referrer information increasingly useless with mobile clients and HTTPS, traditional web analytics are no longer working. awe.sm is building full-fe
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by seldo 14y ago
It's a conditional conditional comment. I feel ill.
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by seldo 14y ago
It does seem a strange decision. They even address it in their post: "jQuery was conceived specifically to address the differences in browsers, so we’re not going to abandon the essence of our philosophy and simply disregard the millions [s

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