ciaranlee

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by ciaranlee 4y ago
Damn. I hope they keep it on life support rather than shut it down. It's a really delightful piece of software that I use every day
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by ciaranlee 6y ago
Yes. Probably depends on the exact noise. I've used them to good effect on planes and when sleeping beside a snoring person.
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by ciaranlee 8y ago
That is a very concise summary! I still think the examples and detail are useful to explain how we do that at Intercom, rather than simply issuing a statement :)
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by ciaranlee 8y ago
I’m humbled that you read our post! We love your work, and heavily use Redis at Intercom. Thank you :) The DynamoDB move is certainly a tradeoff, but for us it really makes sense. Moving to it will allow us to: - scale out this storage laye
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by ciaranlee 8y ago
Operating such services in a fairly static production environment is indeed simple, though in many cases I suspect it’s wasted effort that could be better spent elsewhere. In our (Intercom) case these tasks are not simple. We are lucky to h
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by ciaranlee 8y ago
It’s certainly nowhere near as full featured. But in our case it is entirely appropriate. Over time we simplified our use of MongoDB to the stage where it’s effectively a k/v store. Swapping that simple pattern over to DynamoDB was eas
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by ciaranlee 13y ago
We (Intercom) are hiring ops engineers in San Francisco and Dublin: https://www.intercom.io/jobs/ops We've lots of interesting things to work on, including: * Spliting our monolithic rails app in to discrete servi