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by ublaze 6y ago
It was really sad to see Motif shut down. That service was awesome. It's made me wary of trying new services for this, since their shutdown led to a bunch of shuttling around of portfolios from different, much worse services (Folio, fi
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by ublaze 6y ago
I'm curious what visa you'd be using to work at Repl.it (if you were going to move to the USA). I'm wondering if our startup should be using Manara.
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by ublaze 6y ago
Not to throw shade on Sequoia, but the statement "We recently experienced a cybersecurity incident" reminds me of Euphemisms by George Carlin ( https://youtu.be/vuEQixrBKCc )
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AWS Lumberyard has a special clause for a zombie apocalypse(twitter.com)
1 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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by ublaze 6y ago
What are you using for your landing page?
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by ublaze 6y ago
What do people think of using something like Vanta (vanta.com) for achieving SOC?
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Lessons Learned in Incident Management(dropbox.tech)
1 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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by ublaze 6y ago
I started using Telegram a couple of years ago to prevent my "online status" on Whatsapp being visible to everyone. Just start using both, and convince a few close family members (spouse/parents) to start using the app. Peopl
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by ublaze 6y ago
Each shift is a week long. We're fortunate that our team has a European counterpart, so we don't have to respond at night. We do 9:30 am -> 9:30 pm, and there's 5 members in our rotation.
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by ublaze 6y ago
We have a pretty tight oncall (5 min response time). I think the steps you can take are: 1. Make it clear to your manager this is unacceptable, and you will end up looking for alternate teams/jobs if this goes on 2. Make the same thing
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GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer(softwareatscale.dev)
86 points by ublaze 6y ago|61 comments
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by ublaze 6y ago
I made a bot that bet on horse races. The strategies were succesful but ultimately I spent more than it earned on AWS fees. I might turn it on again next year.
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GUIDs Are Not Enough(softwareatscale.dev)
4 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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Go for Internal Services(softwareatscale.dev)
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Bharat Mediratta – The Story of Google Web Server (and More)(softwareatscale.dev)
2 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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Software at Scale 003 – Bharat Mediratta: Ex-CTO, Dropbox(reliability.substack.com)
3 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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Alki Cold Metadata Storage at Dropbox(dropbox.tech)
14 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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by ublaze 6y ago
Is there a way I can submit an article that might be worth incorporating in your newsletter?
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Mitigate Connection Leaks in Production via Proxies(reliability.substack.com)
1 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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by ublaze 6y ago
I wonder what we get if we feed enough essays like these into GPT-3. Enough self help books to make a living, I suppose.
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Prevent Connection Leaks in Production via Proxies(reliability.substack.com)
1 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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Go for Internal Services(reliability.substack.com)
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Mitigate Connection Leaks in Production via Proxies(reliability.substack.com)
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by ublaze 6y ago
Semi related: what kind of process do you have that makes you feel confident pushing 40x a day? Do you run some kind of automatic analysis that helps you automate the push completely? What if you know that HEAD has a regression that shouldn
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by ublaze 6y ago
That's a neat trick and even simpler than what I wrote about.
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by ublaze 6y ago
imports can't be safely automatically stripped in Python (or even 100% safely re-ordered) since they could have side effects. We run a linter that confirms with the user before stripping them, which works out well in practice.
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by ublaze 6y ago
I've also seen some tricks like stripping docstrings from the release since those strings (hopefully) aren't used in production.
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Run Python Applications Efficiently with malloc_trim(reliability.substack.com)
76 points by ublaze 6y ago|30 comments
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Go for Internal Services(reliability.substack.com)
11 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments
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Go for Internal Services(reliability.substack.com)
2 points by ublaze 6y ago|0 comments

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