wsh91

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by wsh91 10y ago
If you like what PillPack is doing and you take meds, consider switching to them. :) I've had nothing but great service and, as someone on about eight pills a day, it's made part of my life much easier.
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by wsh91 11y ago
That's entirely understandable--and thank you so much for raising it with us. I'd be curious to know what the issue ID is; my JIRA-fu is failing for what you specified. That said, again, thanks for giving us a shot. :)
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by wsh91 11y ago
What issue did you have with Bitbucket, if you don't mind my asking? :)
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by wsh91 11y ago
Can you share some more details about what you're trying to do with us? There's a latency floor when using the API Gateway of about 200 ms, which is unacceptable for a lot of APIs, but other than that we largely haven't been
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by wsh91 11y ago
As someone who's using Lambda in production today (successfully, at relatively high volume), I'd like to suggest that what most would-be Lambda alternatives miss is the infrastructure piece. Talk of lock-in notwithstanding, runn
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by wsh91 11y ago
All of Paul Monette's writings are worth reading. As a young gay person, after reading Borrowed Time in particular, I am now painfully aware of how lucky I am to have been born when I was. Meeting people who have lived with HIV for a
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by wsh91 11y ago
We're having a good time with Cassandra on AWS ingesting more than 200 GiB per day uncompressed. I don't know how you're running your IOPS numbers, but consider allocating large GP2 EBS volumes rather than PIOPS--you'll
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by wsh91 11y ago
There's a per-invocation cost that, at ridiculous volumes, becomes non-trivial ($0.20 per million). We get very high throughput (my back of the envelope math says about 3 writes per millisecond per Lambda, that's to a Cassandra cl
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by wsh91 11y ago
> they are ploys to manipulate viewers into buying things that they did not need until they watched that ad. I have to take issue with this, sorry. You may not be fully cognizant of your needs at the time you see an ad, and what if an ad
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by wsh91 11y ago
It happens once, on initialization. :) The first execution takes anywhere from 50-70 seconds, for sure, but reusing the connection afterwards means subsequent ones don't have to deal with it (100-200 ms a pop). (Does that make sense?)
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by wsh91 11y ago
I'm deploying a new segmentation engine that runs on top of Lambda (input from Kinesis, output to SQS and Cassandra). There are definitely a few gotchas and rough edges but after the first invocation things are super fast. It's ni
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by wsh91 11y ago
I had the same thought [0] when Matt Ranney mentioned that at QCon SF this past November. Especially since this post calls out a Bigtable-like data model, I'm somewhat perplexed. [0] https://twitter.com/_wsh/status
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by wsh91 11y ago
It would be, if it were necessary, but it's not. (Static initializers or default constructors in Java, for example.)
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by wsh91 11y ago
This isn't true. I run a Lambda right now that queries a Cassandra connection pool at high volume. In Java, at least, you set up your resources in a static initializer block, as this alludes to. http://docs.aws.amazon.com&#x
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by wsh91 11y ago
Of course, there's other stuff that you should do, too, like get into the habit of checking Trusted Advisor. :) But nice writeup!
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by wsh91 11y ago
His work is also at LACMA. Treasures, all.
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by wsh91 11y ago
Truth! Also, for its support of alternative databases like Mongo and Cassandra.
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by wsh91 11y ago
I love the USPS, but it's not the pensions: http://taxfoundation.org/article/troubles-postal-service
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by wsh91 11y ago
Cassandra in particular doesn't compete with RDS as much as DynamoDB and, respectfully, setting up failover and monitoring and autosnapshotting isn't actually that difficult. I'm a big fan of outsourcing that stuff--the new s
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by wsh91 11y ago
Operational costs are in the eye of the beholder. We evaluated DynamoDB for a new use case but we're going with Cassandra because the storage costs alone more than made up for ops overhead. At least IMO, Cassandra's support for mu
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by wsh91 11y ago
+1. AWS has done an amazing job with OpsWorks. It's free Chef 12. What's not to love? (The only drawback I've noticed so far is some standard Chef stuff--vault in particular--not working. Other than that, very pleased.)
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by wsh91 11y ago
If you already have a support plan, it's free. So yes, I have. Nothing useful so far, but I plan to keep checking it periodically in case I'm off my game.
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by wsh91 11y ago
Check out fugue: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/fugue -- a proper monadic Option and more. :) (Full disclosure: I'm an Atlassian and I know/<3 the people who write it, but I also use it a fuckton in my ow
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by wsh91 11y ago
I wasn't trying to suggest he was inflammatory! I think you'll find the paper as a whole is of that tone. :)
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by wsh91 11y ago
An interesting topic, indeed. Check out this gem from Knuth, "The Dangers of Computer Science Theory": https://books.google.com/books?id=QUgmsMm5LcAC&lpg=PA189&ots... (Sadly, I can't find a free PDF.
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by wsh91 11y ago
Couldn't you use the history function to restore them? https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/11
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by wsh91 11y ago
Yes, in a way: JIRA Software includes JIRA Agile's functionality and some other goodies. It runs on top of JIRA Core, which is now available as a standalone offering for non-software teams in an organization that don't want the ex
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by wsh91 11y ago
If I'm on my phone, absolutely. I'd rather dial a number and go through a quick prompt than try to log in with my insanely log password to a mobile site.
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by wsh91 11y ago
This is someone providing a library--and many IVRs have useful purposes, including when a call center is offline. I'd rather have automated access to my Amtrak account or pharmacy than none.
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by wsh91 11y ago
Hey there! First off, beautifully written. Thank you for a lot of food for thought. Second--I can't help but think of the notion of mechanical sympathy.[1] Very useful. Finally, I want to put on [2] but my wit is eluding me. [1] http:

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