alongub

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by alongub 5mo ago
The main difference is granularity. Terraform runs a plan and applies it as a batch. If something fails, you re-run apply and it retries from the last saved state... but that state is per-resource, not per-API-call. Alien tracks state at th
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by alongub 5mo ago
Thanks so much! If you have any other ideas, I'd really appreciate it if you could shoot them my way (alon AT alien dot dev)
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by alongub 5mo ago
Fair point
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by alongub 5mo ago
Alien is basically a huge state machine where every API call that mutates the environment is a discrete step, and the full state is durably persisted after each one. If something fails mid-update, it resumes from exactly where it stopped. Y
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by alongub 5mo ago
> Would you support simpler deployment targets, like on premises VMs etc? https://github.com/alienplatform/alien/blob/main/crates/alie... :)
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by alongub 5mo ago
This is true even with fully-managed SaaS though. There are always users who don't want the new UI, the changed workflow, the moved button. But the update mechanism isn't really the problem IMO, feature flags and gradual rollouts
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by alongub 5mo ago
At least they didn't ask you to TeamViewer into a Windows Server 2012 box and open Event Viewer..
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by alongub 5mo ago
Both are real risks. But supply chain attacks exist whether you self-host or not... you're still running the vendor's code either way. The question is whether you also want that code to stay up to date and properly managed, or dri
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by alongub 5mo ago
> Although unfortunately, we can't maintain _any_ connection back to our servers. Pull or push, doesn't matter. We're working on something for this! Stay tuned.
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by alongub 5mo ago
In practice, unmanaged self-hosting is often less secure, because you end up with outdated versions, unpatched vulnerabilities, and no one responsible for keeping things healthy. More and more enterprise CISOs are starting to understand t
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by alongub 5mo ago
Right, and that's when you do control the environment. Now imagine debugging that when it's your customer's infra, you have no access, and you're relying on them to copy-paste logs on a Zoom call.
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by alongub 5mo ago
It's not RCE. The commands are predefined RPCs written into the deployed code. Customers can review and approve them. Trust between the vendor and the customer is still required and Alien doesn't make it unnecessary.
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by alongub 5mo ago
It's heavily inspired by Databricks' deployment model. And you're right that it's not "execute arbitrary commands". Commands are predefined functions in the deployed code that the developer defines upfront and
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Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)
106 points by alongub 5mo ago|49 comments
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Show HN: Deploy to your customers' AWS/GCP/Azure accounts
2 points by alongub 5mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Run AI tool calls in your user's environment and access local data(alien.dev)
2 points by alongub 5mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Alien – Ship to your customer's cloud(github.com)
3 points by alongub 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alongub 8mo ago
AgentMail looks amazing!
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by alongub 1y ago
Exactly
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by alongub 1y ago
Foyer is great!
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Faster Rust Builds on Mac(nnethercote.github.io)
1 points by alongub 1y ago|0 comments
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by alongub 3y ago
Wow, this looks fantastic!
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by alongub 3y ago
There's a really neat pattern for building stateful apps on Postgres that can handle millions of entities concurrently. Traditionally you'd need Kafka / RabbitMQ / other external components. But FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED ba
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Aporia Raises $25M(venturebeat.com)
2 points by alongub 5y ago|0 comments
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by alongub 5y ago
For sure, this is definitely planned!
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by alongub 5y ago
I wrote a tool that helps estimate K8s costs by simulating K8s clusters. You write your pods in a simple DSL and it runs kube-scheduler without actual nodes behind the scenes. It's still really basic but I'd love to hear your fe
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by alongub 5y ago
Not exactly a channel, but a few weeks ago I did a live coding session on how to build an ML platform from scratch (the stuff you need to get ML models to production): https://youtu.be/s8Jj9gzQ3xA
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Introducing MLOps.toys - Machine Learning & DevOps related projects(aporia.com)
4 points by alongub 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Basic ML Platform based on Pulumi, DVC, MLFlow and more(github.com)
3 points by alongub 5y ago|0 comments
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by alongub 10y ago
I didn't look into the product itself, but the idea is absolutely genius. You should build an 'app store' for bots, just like https://wordpress.org/plugins/ .

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