steelaz

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by steelaz 2mo ago
This incident made me look at the SLAs we have with GitHub, since our company is on the Enterprise plan. Interestingly, it seems that only failed GHA invocations are counted towards an SLA breach. We informed engineering to stop using GHA w
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by steelaz 2y ago
Threw me off at first as well. I was thinking of tasks per month. But this seems to be just pay as you go top-ups. Makes sense from a freelancer perspective. If I have work, I top-up my account. If there is none, I don't feel pressure
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by steelaz 2y ago
A map of Ironman events - https://www.tricutlets.com
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by steelaz 2y ago
To be fair to AWS, they announced the deprecation of MySQL 5.7 in January 2021, and many emails warned of this change throughout 2024.
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by steelaz 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. Twilio has been profiting from these scammers for years. We had several calls with our account manager and "fraud expert", and the answer was always the same - migrate to Twilio Authy. The problem is that
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by steelaz 3y ago
Happened to us as well a while back. We tracked originating IPs to the same telco that was sending SMS to their own numbers through our platform. I couldn't believe it.
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by steelaz 3y ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/history seems to show incidents in the last 3 months: * March - 20 incidents * April - 12 incidents * May - 4 incidents (so far)
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by steelaz 4y ago
"IAM Roles Anywhere" was announced just a couple of weeks ago. It might be applicable to your case. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/aws-ident...
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by steelaz 4y ago
We got rid of all IAM users used by applications and moved to role-based access. Nowhere in the application do you need to enter AWS credentials. AWS SDK will attempt to discover short-lived credentials for you and will assume the role spec
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by steelaz 4y ago
Yes, but even in your example, that's 20% of resources going to the sidecar. Not to mention sizing correctly multiple containers in a single task gets complicated.
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by steelaz 4y ago
This is cool product, but but I don't undersatand this statement: "Importantly, Akita did not impact processing loss or extra costs inside AWS, a main concern at our company stage." Author specifically talks about AWS Farga
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by steelaz 6y ago
We run very similar scaffolding to host different workloads, except we run it on ECS, so you could complicate reference diagram even further. In reality, when we had to add Wordpress to our workloads, there was nothing special we had to do
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by steelaz 7y ago
AWS has Aurora Serverless ( https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/ ) for that purpose with MySQL and Postgres compatible engines. But I haven't heard anyone using it for side projects yet.
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by steelaz 7y ago
If true, what does that mean to AWS regions in China?
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by steelaz 7y ago
I found these two articles on idempotency very well written: https://brandur.org/http-transactions https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys
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by steelaz 7y ago
I think the only option here would be to change our name servers at registrar level to point to AWS and recreate all DNS records there, but then you have to deal with name server propagation.
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by steelaz 7y ago
Great, now we can't even disable HTTP proxy to allow traffic directly to AWS :/
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by steelaz 7y ago
Disabling HTTP proxy and leaving "DNS only" option in CloudFlare DNS settings solved the problem for us.
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by steelaz 11y ago
Image of my helmet after the crash [1]. Hospital cleared me the same day, with couple stitches. Surgeon said if not for helmet I would be gone. [1] http://i.imgur.com/QBg0b0V.jpg
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by steelaz 12y ago
To add to the question, what happens with CloudFormation setup, where template doesn't specify EBS volume type. Will new instances use gp2 as default?
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by steelaz 12y ago
You can have Experiments running on client side (JS) without redirect to different versions of the page, but setup process is... strange to say the least - https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/experime
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by steelaz 13y ago
Is it still a bribe if benefit is for the state and not an individual?
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by steelaz 13y ago
How?
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by steelaz 13y ago
A lot of people mention ability to almost instantly stream the movie you want, but you can already do that using torrents. It's called sequential downloading. After buffering a few % of the whole torrent, you can start watching it with
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by steelaz 13y ago
According to wikipedia, Tony Stark made his first appearance in comic books in 1963, 8 years before Elon Musk was born.
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by steelaz 13y ago
If it's not your first time touching database, I would recommend Adminer ( http://www.adminer.org/ ). No installation, single PHP file.
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by steelaz 13y ago
What about countries that get very little sunshine through winter season, scandinavian countries for example?
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by steelaz 13y ago
It seems after loosing your phone you have a few hours to disable access to your email account.
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by steelaz 14y ago
Clicking on recipients line reveals CC, Bcc and From.
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by steelaz 14y ago
Most websites that are adding social login buttons also keep their own registration/authentication setup. I think by adding social login buttons you also increase attack surface on your website, no matter how good third party security is.

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