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by zeeg 14y ago
Not sure I could have fit the link :) Realistically though, I could have. I didn't. It doesn't really matter why. I didn't follow what others said, so maybe it was a lot worse, but I do agree that what I said could not have escalated into w
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by zeeg 14y ago
Nope, still here. I'm just not replying to you on Twitter because lol
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Being Wrong on the Internet(justcramer.com)
47 points by zeeg 14y ago|27 comments
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by zeeg 14y ago
Remember that time you disagreed with me and had to write an entire (factually incorrect) blog post about it? I assume you like internet drama.
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by zeeg 14y ago
I don't necessarily choose it, I just don't go out of my way (like most people) to be nice. I would argue, that what makes me who I am (a driven, passionate person) also leads to traits like being honestly vocal about things. Whether the wa
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by zeeg 14y ago
Are you suggesting I was talking bad about the Ruby community? I openly dislike Ruby (as a language), but I swear this project was written in Node, which I also dislike. Oh, and I could care less which language something is written in,
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by zeeg 14y ago
(I copied this from another HN posting) I was one of the people who made a comment about this. I'm also assuming the reason I was pulled into this is because people much more important than me said similar things. I'm not going to defend th
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by zeeg 14y ago
I was one of the people who made a comment about this. I'm not going to defend that I think attempting to replace sed/grep is a bad idea (especially not in 140 characters), but I will defend people's opinions. Everyone has one, most of them
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by zeeg 14y ago
What benefits? They're completely different technologies. They share very few characteristics, and many apps which are built on SQL using the ORM would not "just work" on a NoSQL engine. You also are only talking about MongoDB. Who cares ab
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by zeeg 14y ago
I assume that anyone who agrees with this post doesn't actually do programming, and would struggle to instantiate a Redis client and then use it in the simplest manner. You cant have a RELATIONAL mapper without a RELATIONAL database, and yo
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by zeeg 14y ago
Eventually you need abstraction. Python is fast enough, as is Django, that the abstraction costs us less than the value it provides us. That said, we do manage our partitions (currently) using an ORM layer (at the application level). We do
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by zeeg 14y ago
All I can really say (not being on the Google side of things) is: iframes
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by zeeg 14y ago
We have never ever used the Django admin, and I would choose Django any day of the week for a project that is web on the web and using a database. (In fact almost every single project I've ever built has used Django, and there's never been
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by zeeg 14y ago
Disqus wouldn't fit into 1TB of memory as a denormalized data set. It doesnt even fit (indexed, at least) into 1TB of memory as a normalized data set. At the scale we're at, you're required to make tradeoffs and come up with less than stand
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by zeeg 14y ago
As these slides are very old, here's some updates: * We use Flask and nginx in various areas now (the main app is still Django). Our realtime app, for example, is powered off of uwsgi and Flask. * There are nearly 1b monthly uniques across
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PHP Error Reporting with Sentry(blog.getsentry.com)
3 points by zeeg 14y ago|0 comments
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by zeeg 14y ago
Sentry is also open source, but for very different reasons than what you describe. I treat it like part of the business value, but that also means that many people can simply run their own, which means potential value lost (I wouldnt argue
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by zeeg 14y ago
Why should anyone create software just so you can have it for free? You're not entitled to open source software, or the goodwill of others. If they decided that they didn't want to continue running their product, they can choose to shut
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by zeeg 14y ago
The problem is DNS resolution isnt cached and potentially has to do a lookup everytime it does a connection. When I was doing that every request (potentially several times), it became expensive. Sounds like I understand it? That DNS mapped
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by zeeg 14y ago
I talked to them (the people I knew) some, but it was mostly characteristics of the app. So various events were like this: * Perf problem w/ the code (e.g. didnt handle this kind of spike) * Perf problem with service (e.g. had $200 db inste
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by zeeg 14y ago
It would take me more than one blog post to describe the architecture that powers Sentry, the various areas that have and can have bottlenecks (some more obvious than others). More importantly, this a few months ago I made the switch, and I
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by zeeg 14y ago
I wasnt aware about that credit, that's actually really nice! I used to have a really good deal with SL about 2-3 years ago, and when I was looking around for Sentry they were my first stop. Unfortunately the prices had gone up a lot while
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by zeeg 14y ago
You're saying before Heroku (or the cloud) everyone paid an operations guy to do anything? Nope. I don't need to suffer the same acts of terror operations people have gone through to be able to avoid, prevent, or recover from them. I'm payi
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by zeeg 14y ago
SL has become very expensive in the last couple of years (we host primarily there at Disqus). For Sentry I'm using Incero, but will likely be switching to Hivelocity (or something similar), as I currently don't have internal network and tha
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by zeeg 14y ago
Actually I think I/O was my primary bottleneck. Once I addressed that I started hitting CPU/memory constraints on Dynos. The database definitely wasnt unreasonable at $400, but for a bootstrapped project (especially something thats a si
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by zeeg 14y ago
I didn't note in this post (but in others), but before I switched, my Heroku bill was almost $700 (and I couldnt get it to perform well), the current bill is far less even with growth.
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by zeeg 14y ago
It takes just as much time for DNS to propagate as it does for me to deploy a config change. It literally doesn't matter at this stage.
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The Switch from Heroku to Hardware(justcramer.com)
100 points by zeeg 14y ago|51 comments
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by zeeg 14y ago
Is your graph showing concurrent (as in active connection) users?
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by zeeg 14y ago
>>> 20000000/24/60/60.0 ~231.46666666666667 requests a second?

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