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by zedpm 9y ago
I find pants from manufacturers like KÜHL [0] are great for this. They're sturdy, look nice, and have panels that allow for a lot of flexibility. [0] http://www.kuhl.com/kuhl/mens/pants/radikl/
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by zedpm 9y ago
> The hit I see is by providers of 'serverless' computing, since they charge per request and have their margins reduced. AWS, Azure, and GCP all bill serverless with a combination of per-request fees and compute (GB-seconds), s
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by zedpm 9y ago
This isn't too surprising; device firmware is harder to get right than, say, a web app. In addition, when your actual hardware is running Amazon-specific firmware, you're staying on AWS for the long haul. Also, since I don't
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by zedpm 9y ago
Check your math. 1vCPU at $0.0506 per hour + 1 GB RAM at $0.0127 per hour gives $.0633 per hour. At 750 hours per month, that's $47.48 per month. A T2.micro is $8.70 per month, but not even close to a whole vCPU, so it's not a dir
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by zedpm 9y ago
Yes, I use it in just that way. I recommend installing awslogs[0] on your workstation. Then, to tail a log group, you'd run awslogs get <group_name> -w The latency is pretty low and this generally works well. You can appl
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by zedpm 9y ago
If you happen to visit Badlands National Park, or western South Dakota in general, make time to visit the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site mentioned in the article. I toured Delta-01 last summer, and it was fascinating. The tour gui
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by zedpm 9y ago
That was my first thought as well; GE is the easiest way I know of to introduce domain-specific knowledge into the genotype > phenotype translation.
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by zedpm 9y ago
You mean the ecs-cli bit? Yes, but I don't mean to imply that there isn't a bit of setup before you do it. Still, it's a pretty short path to set up initially, and then updates are dead simple. Check out the tutorial [0] if y
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by zedpm 9y ago
Learning from topical anecdotes. Whenever some new complex deployment tool is posted, the comments are full of people posting things like "We solve this problem at my company with Ansible and systemd" and "If you're on A
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by zedpm 9y ago
I'm not sure about it being "so hard", but it's extra stuff to deploy, maintain, monitor, and pay for. Very small teams benefit from keeping things small and simple. Again, if you actually need Kafka, then it's wort
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by zedpm 9y ago
It turns out that's what it will be [0], as dash retains the ability to easily copy the whole identifier in most terminals. [0]: https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/1189d90d749c84e98424...
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by zedpm 9y ago
One that immediately comes to mind is cases where Kafka is overkill. Kafka is a great tool, but there's a lot of overhead in setting up and maintaining it (e.g. Zookeeper), so if your throughput needs are low, it's a poor fit. Spi
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by zedpm 9y ago
Good point, poor choice of words on my part.
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by zedpm 9y ago
That's sure nice, but I'm waiting for AWS to switch to automatic sustained use discounts [0] like GCP offers. [0]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discount...
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by zedpm 9y ago
I meant that a bucket exists in only one region and that you have to replicate to a different bucket if you want to do anything to improve S3 availability.
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by zedpm 9y ago
Not exactly. S3 doesn't have AZs at all, it's only split on regions. Further, a bucket can exist in only one region. You can set up cross-region replication, but you of course need to flip the bucket coordinates in all your applic
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by zedpm 9y ago
Kudos for Amazon sorting out their status page. The last time this happened, the status page didn't show anything until hours after the outage began. I just noticed this one maybe 15 minutes ago, and 5-10 minutes later they acknowledge
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by zedpm 9y ago
Antirez said he plans on merging disque into a Redis module, now that such a thing exists. I'm pretty excited, and would love to migrate off of RabbitMQ to Disque or whatever the module version is named, as we're already successfu
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by zedpm 9y ago
My first question when I saw this was "How to you handle network partitions?", since RabbitMQ's partition handling is, uh, suboptimal. I read bullet points until I found this: > With our RabbitMQ servers, you wont have to
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by zedpm 9y ago
RabbitMQ is not strictly an AP system. Its clustering functionality supports several different modes for handling partitions (all of which allow for data loss) and is CP. Federation, which you should use if your network between nodes isn&#x
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by zedpm 9y ago
One less service to manage, plus RabbitMQ's options for dealing with network partitions are all terrible. If you want to run a RabbitMQ cluster, you don't have any option that avoids data loss.
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by zedpm 9y ago
Antirez has talked about moving Disque to a Redis module, which should solve that problem neatly. I'd love to drop our RabbitMQ dependency and move queueing into Redis.
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by zedpm 9y ago
Slowly, very slowly, DO is creeping towards having enough features to peel users off of AWS and GCP. Block storage, load balancers, and now blob storage...if you don't need managed queues or databases, you can probably save some seriou
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by zedpm 9y ago
I see a lot of "me too" responses to this, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what systemd brings to the table. I understand the Ansible part, but what does systemd do that's notable? My understanding is that it&
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by zedpm 10y ago
Nay: 46 D, 2 I actually.
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by zedpm 10y ago
I'd just install Postgres or MySQL or whatever locally on my free instance. It comes with 30GB of disk, which should be plenty if you're just playing/prototyping. Alternately, for the first year you also get $300 credit which
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by zedpm 10y ago
Wow, this is a big deal. This is enough to run personal or PoC projects just on the Always Free Tier, but the fact that you can stack the $300 credit on top of the free tier is crazy: > You are eligible for Always Free usage amounts duri
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Python Fire: automatic CLI(developers.googleblog.com)
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by zedpm 10y ago
I did some digging and experimentation, and so far it looks like you could keep a backup bucket in another region and use bidirectional replication [0] to keep the two buckets in sync. If something like this happened again, you could point
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by zedpm 10y ago
Can anyone comment on mitigating issues like this with S3 Cross-region replication? I'm reading up on it now while one of my services is dead in the water.

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