TheP1000

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by TheP1000 27d ago
Our codex on AWS Bedrock read / write cache ratio was less than 5%. Cache writes are very expensive and they were never being used. This results in codex on Bedrock causing ~10x what it should due to no caching and massive writes. The
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Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges(github.com)
148 points by TheP1000 27d ago|66 comments
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by TheP1000 11mo ago
I just implemented incident manager org wide :( I knew the service was rough, but had the right building blocks plus Cfn/CDK support and has been working well. My lack of trust in AWS is increasing, feels like a google move.
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by TheP1000 1y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/06/amazon-ap...
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by TheP1000 1y ago
API gateway timeout increase has been nice.
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by TheP1000 2y ago
Is this really xenophobia? China does not provide equal access to their markets, why should we provide it to ours? And the specifically pertains to a loophole that would be getting closed for everyone...
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by TheP1000 2y ago
For anything we inject secrets in via env vars (which really is only supported by ECS, maybe EKS?), it is easy to add a lambda to kick off a nightly ECS restart. Easier if you are already using the AWS CDK for tooling. The purist in me thin
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by TheP1000 2y ago
Agreed. I would imagine the previous approach of forced upgrades ended up burning lots of customers in worse ways than just their pocketbook.
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by TheP1000 3y ago
Is above still an issue with http2/3? edit: From the article: To workaround the limitation you have to use HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 with which the browser will only open a single connection per domain and then use multiplexing to ru
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by TheP1000 3y ago
As others have mentioned, moving to per tenant databases can really simplify things at scale and doesn't leave a massive amount of engineering complexity and debt in its wake. I feel sorry for the team managing this 5 years from now.
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by TheP1000 3y ago
Yes, GoDaddy does this.
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by TheP1000 4y ago
If you want to leverage cheap spot, use us-east-2 / Ohio region. The prices are typically half of what you see in us-east-1. Also, it really helps to analyze at the AZ level. Certain AZs lack instances or have very low spot availabilit
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by TheP1000 4y ago
The automatic region thing is problematic for many companies. I would much rather be able to explicitly choose this and know that customers data is where I told them it would be.
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by TheP1000 4y ago
GoDaddy is really a dishonest company. Please do yourself a favor and avoid them. Things I've personally experienced: * The purchase of webfaction w/ a promise to migrate sites to a new host. They promised for over a year to do th
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by TheP1000 4y ago
There are lots of good reasons in that thread why the patch was declined. The patch made things more lenient which makes things less compatible (this whole thread is about ANSI SQL standards and they do matter) and changes what was an error
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by TheP1000 4y ago
This is a very common pattern especially with the cdk. Having a locally deployed stack makes development in the cloud so much easier.
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by TheP1000 5y ago
That is incorrect. Cross az fees are steep.
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by TheP1000 5y ago
Kinesis data streams and firehouse were down. All but one out of 300 RDSs failed over. One was down for 5 hours.
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by TheP1000 6y ago
So you are aware your dislike of Blackboard for reasons above are misplaced: - TurnItIn is a 3rd party Blackboard extension and the school selected to use this. - The school was also likely self hosting an under provisioned system.