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by snewman 7y ago
I agree that "you can expect the value of stocks in general to go up over time in proportion to the growth of the global economy", but this does not contradict "There's no point in trying to game or predict [the market]&
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by snewman 7y ago
Replying to my own comment: As many have pointed out, this was not actually the postmortem, just an "update". I still find it pretty weak. There has been plenty of time to assemble basic details, such as a rough timeline. Yes they
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by snewman 7y ago
I've seen much more detail in other postmortems from major cloud providers. (AWS and Azure definitely, and I think Google as well.)
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by snewman 7y ago
This is a surprisingly vague postmortem. No timeline, no specific identification of affected regions. And no explanation of why a configuration change that was (apparently) made with a single command required so much effort to undo, or why
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by snewman 7y ago
This was the premise of "The Cool War" by Frederik Pohl. It's been a long time so I can't remember whether it was a great read, but definitely an interesting idea.
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by snewman 8y ago
Well: in many cases, compactions can make more files eligible to be garbage collected. So if you want to accelerate the freeing up of space, running a compaction may serve that goal. It will temporarily increase usage, but once the garbage
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by snewman 8y ago
Yup, many an outage has something like this at its core. At my company, to address that, we've built an internal library for enforcing rate limits and size limits that is (a) configurable on the fly and (b) generates logs, so that we c
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by snewman 8y ago
If you're seriously interested in building this and would be open to employment for that purpose – please drop me a line (contact info in my profile). This absolutely deserves to exist and it would be a natural extension of what we&#x2
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by snewman 8y ago
Scalyr CEO here. I'd love to hear more about how you're thinking about attack surfaces – drop me a line? My email address is in my profile.
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by snewman 9y ago
Scalyr | DevOps, Backend Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite by far. We are the blazing fast log management platfor
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by snewman 9y ago
As an engineer working on Docs and related products from inception through 2010: I would be astonished if this were the case. Had such behavior become known within the engineering team, there would likely have been an uprising. There was no
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by snewman 9y ago
I have no idea. :)
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by snewman 9y ago
You might be right about the OT idea, or even some code, having been borrowed from Wave. I wouldn't necessarily have known about it (or I might simply have forgotten). But I'm pretty certain that Kix as an overall project was much
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by snewman 9y ago
Good question. I don't know how much of that was done in this case. I can say that at the outset of the Kix project, they did ask me for advice about pitfalls. (I was skeptical that it could be done at all using the browser technology
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by snewman 9y ago
Bear in mind that this was almost a decade ago, and I wasn't directly involved. With that caveat: the core mechanisms for client / server coordination in Kix were a direct descendant from Trix (short for "Matrix"), which
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by snewman 9y ago
I'm pretty sure there is no lineage from Wave to Kix (which, yes, was the code name for the modern incarnation of Docs). Kix is more of a descendant of the architecture of Google Sheets. Source: I am one of the original authors of Writ
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by snewman 9y ago
Exactly, you use a fixed RNG seed so that the behavior is reproducible. For complex multithreaded code, it can become difficult to achieve consistent execution, but a fixed seed is at least a good start.
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by snewman 9y ago
> the tests never try to mix PSYNC2 with replication of Lua scripts This sort of testing gap is so hard to avoid. Any complex system has an inexhaustible number of potential feature interactions. It's very difficult at best to guess
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by snewman 9y ago
Oops -- thanks for catching this copy/paste glitch. Here are corrected links: https://www.scalyr.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-fronten... https://www.scalyr.com/jobs/software-engineer-back
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by snewman 9y ago
Scalyr | Frontend, Backend Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're building an amazing team, users r
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by snewman 9y ago
I think this is comparing Amish people with the mutation vs. Amish people without the mutation. Both groups are Amish eating Amish food in Amish communities with other Amish.
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by snewman 9y ago
Scalyr | Frontend, Backend Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're building an amazing team, users r
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by snewman 9y ago
Google Docs does use OT. Or at least it did about six years ago, and I doubt that has changed. Source: I cowrote the original implementation (which was not OT, it was a three way merge of complete HTML files), and I was around when a new t
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by snewman 9y ago
How will you know the person emailing you is actually the owner of that username?
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by snewman 9y ago
Scalyr | Frontend, Backend Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're building an amazing team, users r
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by snewman 9y ago
Scalyr | Backend, Frontend, Customer Success Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're building an ama
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by snewman 9y ago
"C", but that's meaningless because AWS scrambles the zone names for each account. (Presumably to prevent everyone from putting all their servers in "A".)
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by snewman 9y ago
There was definitely an issue. Around 25% of our servers in one availability zone of us-east-1 fell off the network for 15 minutes or so, starting around 13:47 GMT. They're back now. During this time period, we were also unable to acce
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4 points by snewman 9y ago|1 comments
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by snewman 9y ago
I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're building an amazing team, users rave about our product, and things are taking off – we're

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