thefarseeker

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by thefarseeker 7y ago
I'm Taryn's coworker I was involved in that part of the process very closely. That statement is not entirely accurate. The SSDs certainly did die, but not _because_ of the 2019 upgrade, it just happened at the same time as the 201
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
Not sure if trolling or... but fwiw at Stack Overflow's SRE team we use Go a _lot_. We just open-sourced our latest tool written in Go, DNSControl ( https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/ ), and we have d
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
That was my takeaway too. If you ever had to change a spelling error in the front-end of a devopsy-style tool, then chances are you wrote some javascript, and bam: top of the list.
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
I'm in the camp of "I do all my serious work on a PC, but I take a MacBook to conferences because it's light and has good battery life".
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
So DNSMadeEasy made it all the way through the barrage of tests. I even wrote a library for their API so that we could integrate it into our DNS software ( https://github.com/mhenderson-so/godnsmadeeasy ), but at the end
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
Author here. CloudFlare's DNS was measurably, and consistently, faster than almost every provider we tested. So I can concur with you in that regards. It was ultimately faster than Route 53 and Google Cloud (the path we ended up going)
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
Author here. I agree. There are built-in mechanisms for doing this - AXFR and IXFR. However, these mechanisms were not really designed with this sort of scale in mind. You have to keep an up to date whitelist of all the servers that can tal
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
Author here. Google and AWS are anycasted services. We were not interested in running our own anycasted DNS due to the management overhead of doing so, and because the cost of anycasting our own services would be orders of magnitude more ex
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by thefarseeker 10y ago
Author here. One thing I didn't cover in the post was about how to have Google and AWS honour their SLA's is that you have to use _all 4_ of the nameservers they provide. Because we're not doing that (only using half), we hav