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We frequently turn down ~30% of canary instances(reliability.substack.com)
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Why we frequently turn down ~30% of canary instances(reliability.substack.com)
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by ublaze 6y ago
gRPC is one of the best decisions we've made at our company. Here's the longer blog post - https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/courier-dropbox-migratio... , but some things: 1. Performance 2. It's hard to
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by ublaze 6y ago
This is a pretty innovative idea. Wonder if the underlying tech can be used to get rid of selenium tests.
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The case against Low Priority Alerts(utsavshah.com)
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The Case Against Low Priority Alerts(utsavshah.com)
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by ublaze 6y ago
Hi Peter, Does the prevailing wage rule apply only to base salary or to total compensation? Do you think the new rules will be sued and blocked?
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by ublaze 6y ago
How did you build your landing page? It's pretty slick.
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by ublaze 6y ago
Offering this service can probably be spun into its own SAAS company.
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by ublaze 6y ago
Cloud load balancers can be sneakily expensive. Few months ago, we spent a few weeks replacing an ELB with naive client side load balancing via round robin, which saves us > 200k/year. ELBs charge per byte transmitted, which seems r
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by ublaze 6y ago
One of our internal experimentation systems handles this by capping rollouts to 95%. So the author is forced to clean up their code if they want a full rollout.
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Bootstrapping the Coinbase Monorepo(blog.coinbase.com)
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by ublaze 6y ago
Thanks for your work and your team's work on Git!
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by ublaze 6y ago
Precisely.
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by ublaze 6y ago
At least two years ago, Google seemed to be driving an effort to move away from Piper and to Mercurial - not just a frontend ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.version-... ). They would need to bu
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by ublaze 6y ago
Which operating system are you using? That's impressive. More importantly, our hook doesn't support the new query version so we might want to switch.
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by ublaze 6y ago
Sure. core.fsmonitor is set to our custom fsmonitor (this causes issues with submodules, at least on 2.24) core.untrackedCache true We use index version 4 And a slight hack: our wrapper sets GIT_FORCE_UNTRACKED_CACHE = 1. This forces `git s
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by ublaze 6y ago
We shipped a wrapper that tweaks git configs and logs metrics, and a custom fsmonitor hook that was slightly faster than the stock one. We also ensured watchman was installed on developers laptops. And we made a few changes to Git to fix
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by ublaze 6y ago
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/10/29/global-kernel-locks... is an interesting write up about the problem.
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by ublaze 6y ago
Author of the post here. I think Git upstream is trying to simplify configuration. They have a config option called `features.manyFiles` which enables most of the features we enabled for our developers ( https://git-scm.com/d
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Ask HN: Is it worth creating yet another programming course?
2 points by ublaze 6y ago|2 comments
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Dropbox is working on its own password manager(androidpolice.com)
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by ublaze 6y ago
I've wondered if this can be built with a limited budget, in terms of cloud costs. At least it feels like you'd need a lot of hosts to satisfactorily index the web, and store the results so that you can return results instantaneou
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by ublaze 6y ago
Thanks. Updated links here https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/continuous-integration-a... https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/athena-our-automated-bui...
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by ublaze 6y ago
Dropbox | San Francisco | https://www.dropbox.com I'm an engineer on the Developer Tools team at Dropbox. We're looking for senior engineers who're excited to make other developers more productive by building grea
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Engineering a disruption tolerant supply chain(dropbox.tech)
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Facebook to Invest $5.7B in Ambani’s Jio Platforms(bloomberg.com)
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by ublaze 7y ago
Super cool! That looks professional. I have a landing page up for people interested in the idea and want updates - https://simpleblog.io/
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by ublaze 7y ago
I'm learning how to do web development again. I've only been working on infrastructure tools/services at my job, and I'm re-learning concepts like how to authenticate users, and my first time seriously using React, Djang
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by ublaze 7y ago
How do they enforce these things? I'm sure if you do something silly like show up in the company's payroll you'll suffer consequences but this rule is pretty nuanced.

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