frehpt

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   by frehpt 13y ago

   It's only drastically slower because the micro instance gets very heavily throttled when you put it under sustained load. If you use it for what it's designed for the performance is much better as you don't get throttled with light usage. T
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   by frehpt 13y ago

   I don't see how that proves anything. They're using an old first generation instance type and benchmarking it alongside a much more powerful i7 processor. If you want a faster instance get a second generation instance or a larger one.
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   by frehpt 13y ago

   I think you're missing the point of the micro instance. It can give you decent performance in short bursts, which is suitable for many light usage cases e.g. a low traffic blog. If you are going to load it via a benchmark you get very heavi
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   by frehpt 13y ago

   Incorrect, Amazon.com runs on AWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588012
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   by frehpt 13y ago

   Is that the sound of the power supply going on your Pentium 3... ...or your internet connection You never patch or reboot your magic box either?
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   by frehpt 13y ago

   Exactly...
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   by frehpt 13y ago

   > Go does't have 1/100000 the amount of libraries and support that Ruby or C does. That's what they used to say about Java...
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   by frehpt 13y ago

   Option A: -Write your application in Go Option B: -Write application in Ruby -Profile Ruby application to identify code to be rewritten in C -Learn C if you don't already know it -Rewrite various parts of your application i