dougmoscrop

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by dougmoscrop 3y ago
Avoiding scaling the stateful part is also a path to hammer-nail syndrome - you start using less and less of the database system because you keep pulling things out since that's the only place you've established the ability to add
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by dougmoscrop 4y ago
I can't decide if I would enjoy reading real examples of these cycles. Just knowing how precarious the supply of natural rubber is, and how inadequate artifical solutions are (including prospective ones from continental), makes me une
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by dougmoscrop 4y ago
I live in Canada, things don't quite work like the US in terms of ownership incentives, but generally nobody is renting a house here for less than what it costs to finance and maintain it, so rather than "renting with extra step&q
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by dougmoscrop 4y ago
Can you imagine if even a fraction of the effort poured in to k8s tooling had gone in to the Erlang/OTP ecosystem instead?
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by dougmoscrop 5y ago
Agreed, we have our work cut out for us but the team is fantastic and I can't wait to share more of our vision with the world!
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by dougmoscrop 5y ago
Honestly, looking at Oracle Cloud, I think the best thing they could do is spin off and just completely remove any trace of the name Oracle. You have some absolutely fantastic products that are being criminally neglected because people won
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by dougmoscrop 6y ago
Totally agree. Lambda needs to 1/10 their costs or start billing for real CPU time and get rid of invocation overheads to really compete at these scales. Now I have dozens of serverless projects for smaller use things because there is
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by dougmoscrop 6y ago
Most if not all AWS services are really just HTTP APIs. A Lambda invocation is really just a POST to a public AWS endpoint. You can absolutely come up with login flows that obtain a set of temporary STS credentials that are only allowed t
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by dougmoscrop 6y ago
I responded lower, but dude! 2000 requests a second is hardly anything at all, unless the application server is doing some seriously heavy lifting in which case the architecture is wrong. You should redo the calculations with 1gb of memory
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by dougmoscrop 6y ago
The calculations are still a little more complicated. I think serverless is the future, but I also think we need to continue to put pressure on AWS to lower costs Lambda and servers are not equal, you can't just calculate the number of