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by sharpy 10y ago
S3 bucket names are globally scoped - ie. they are literally scarce resources.
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by sharpy 10y ago
"ACeP achieves a full color gamut, including all eight primary colors, using only colored pigments." ... I want one now :-)
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by sharpy 10y ago
I always felt that F-35B at least should have been its own design. As for A & C, there have been successful examples of naval aircraft being used by air forces too - such as F-4, and F/A-18. But trying to have a design that is also
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by sharpy 10y ago
It was probably largely written by Ada programmers transitioning to C++, along with people with prior C++ experience but with no/little experience writing mission critical software.
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by sharpy 11y ago
Read-only DB. Think of it as read-only memory mapped key/value store.
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by sharpy 11y ago
It really depends on how much they want you, and how you negotiate. I recently changed jobs. I ended up getting multiple offers, and for all but 1 of them, they were willing to wait 3 weeks for me to make a decision. I was very upfront abou
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by sharpy 11y ago
Interesting. It seems that Google IAM is very similar to AWS IAM yet very different in one aspect. In AWS, you can define exactly what subset of APIs/resources are accessible to a role, which is very flexible, but also can be very conf
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by sharpy 11y ago
Some places I interviewed did mostly whiteboarding, but had a problem that required producing working code. One place had a standard desktop setup aside for me - with the most popular IDEs pre-installed. Another had me bring my laptop.
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by sharpy 11y ago
+1 Not to mention that often it can takes weeks for new hardware order to be approved / delivered / provisioned. Cloud? Just dial it up... Well, if you are at Netflix scale, you probably couldn't just dial it up, and would ha
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by sharpy 11y ago
Right. If you look at the API, the publish API allows you to push multiple messages in a single API call, and if that is the batching - publishing multiple messages - then yes, you and others are absolutely correct that there is no cost ben
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by sharpy 11y ago
They are wrapping small events into fewer larger ones. Hence the word batching. I have 64 1k messages? Ok, I am going to put them inside a single 64k message and reduce my request count by 64x, and profit!
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by sharpy 11y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Loved it.
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by sharpy 11y ago
That's an interesting cycle. I had one of the IBM Deskstar (aka. Deathstar for the high failure rate). IBM sold the HDD business to Hitachi, who sold it to WD. And now, Deskstars are as reliable as they come.
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by sharpy 11y ago
They hired me despite my not knowing any Java. I was there for close to 5 years and did my share of interviewing and I haven't seen a single instance where lack of specific programming language skill was brought up as a reason to rejec
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by sharpy 11y ago
There are different forces at play. On one hand, one can design a service with minimum dependencies to survive other services' outages, but that means duplication of effort and increased cost, as well as slower delivery of features. Or
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by sharpy 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer working for AWS. But not on EC2. I feel the margin number conclusion is deeply flawed for variety of reasons. There are some questions the author cannot have answers for, that greatly change the marg
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by sharpy 13y ago
Doing so allows customers to easily view the total estimated spend, rather than having to go to each region and add it up.
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by sharpy 13y ago
Hi, There are a couple of things that are easy to overlook when using billing metrics. 1. All billing metrics are stored in us-east-1 even for usages in other regions. 2. If you are using consolidated billing, billing metrics will be publis