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by somic 14y ago
As usual, their summaries leave me with more questions than answers. A maintenance process whose purpose in life is to delete data from ELB backend database (if it were not the case, you'd see "maint process didn't work right") in such a we
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Concise Introduction to Infrastructure as Code(somic.org)
1 points by somic 14y ago|0 comments
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by somic 14y ago
Until this announcement, trading (buying and selling) of any EC2 entity was theoretically impossible. Many companies claim to be working on things like marketplaces etc, but unless you can sell (buying is always trivial) and further unless
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by somic 14y ago
I don't think RI is a bond. Bond is a debt instrument and you don't loan anything to AWS when you purchase an RI. RI is a hedging instrument instead - you think that if you end up running an instance non-stop or near-non-stop, you are hedgi
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Infrastructure As Code - Tiki-Taka of TechOps(somic.org)
1 points by somic 14y ago|0 comments
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Applying 5 Whys To Amazon EC2 Outage(somic.org)
52 points by somic 14y ago|14 comments
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One of the Ways How You Could Plan for Failure(somic.org)
1 points by somic 15y ago|0 comments
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by somic 15y ago
The post was not directed at AWS. A "normal accident" (one that can't be foreseen, usually due to confluence of factors and bad luck) happened and they are dealing with it. My post was directed at folks who said "web sites that went down as
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Coffee and Design for Failure(somic.org)
11 points by somic 15y ago|8 comments
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Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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How I Organize Posts in Jekyll(somic.org)
2 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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Libyan Disconnect(renesys.com)
7 points by somic 16y ago|1 comments
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by somic 16y ago
Nothing against SpotCloud team, but here is my blog post about why I think the idea will not work any time soon: http://somic.org/2011/01/19/my-doubts-about-idea-behind-spot...
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Cloud As Application Data Exchange Point(somic.org)
1 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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by somic 16y ago
The complexity of a system probably in use by Netflix comes from the number of instances and - most importantly - probably the number of accounts that they have. I strongly doubt all those instances they have are running on a single AWS acc
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by somic 16y ago
This talk by @adrianco may address the points you were looking for - http://www.blip.tv/file/4252897 To sum up, Netflix's strategy is to go with the best and biggest in each category, and AWS is obviously the biggest as of now.
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by somic 16y ago
This is indeed an interesting post but it doesn't answer the question why they chose Amazon. It focuses on why they chose not to expand within their own datacenter.
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Unexpected Similarities in EC2 Spot Price History Between Regions(somic.org)
1 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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Devops != Sysadmin(somic.org)
2 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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The Biggest Challenge for Infrastructure as Code(somic.org)
1 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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Parallelize Your EC2 API Calls with Python, Boto and Threading(github.com)
1 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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Are You a Responsible Owner of Your Availability?(somic.org)
3 points by somic 16y ago|1 comments
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Developing API Server – Practical Rules of Thumb(somic.org)
3 points by somic 16y ago|0 comments
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Probing Ports in Remote Security Groups in Amazon EC2(somic.org)
1 points by somic 17y ago|0 comments