infomaniac

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by infomaniac 6mo ago
Let's hope the investors have a break (through)
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by infomaniac 8mo ago
It shows. They use all those spare brain tokens testing the product behaves correctly, right? Right?!
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by infomaniac 9mo ago
Fantastic software that I've used for over a decade. Interacted with Karl a few years ago about Adobe's AMF format; very generous with his time. I was surprised to learn that it's over 20 years old! https://en.wiki
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by infomaniac 2y ago
> Amazon does not use relational databases This is false, at least in my very thin exposure to the company: I interviewed for a team last year which was maintaining EC2 SSH keys using MySQL.
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by infomaniac 2y ago
Can you elaborate on how you're storing this data?
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by infomaniac 2y ago
Worked for an eCom store for 3 years, was on-call 24/7 for most of it due to understaffing. In this context, every second of downtime was actual money being lost. CEO drilled in the gravity of each outage. Took me a good few months aft
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We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go(coder.com)
226 points by infomaniac 2y ago|129 comments
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Loki 3.0 release: Bloom filters, native OpenTelemetry support, and more(grafana.com)
3 points by infomaniac 2y ago|0 comments
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by infomaniac 2y ago
Galaxy brain business model: shame the app developers and offer a tool to help them fix their mistakes.
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by infomaniac 3y ago
Perhaps it's less about billing and more about disincentivizing excessive use? Even if the service is free, it's not infinite and is ultimately a shared resource that should not be monopolized.
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by infomaniac 3y ago
memcached has recently gained the ability to spill to disk: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Extstore we recently implemented this to grow our caches to >50TB
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by infomaniac 3y ago
Nothing interesting to add, just an anecdote. As someone based in a semi-rural part of South Africa, this dual cable break was a huge PITA for a few days. Latencies went through the roof; remote work was made very difficult.
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by infomaniac 3y ago
Joburg native here, moved away about 12 years ago. I still have people there, and every time I go visit its in an even worse state of disrepair; quite upsetting.
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by infomaniac 4y ago
I found it very useful, thanks!
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by infomaniac 4y ago
This is addressed in one of the linked tweets.
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by infomaniac 4y ago
Very accurate! Just 10 points off my chess.com rating. Although, there was an unfortunate bug... I couldn't promote a pawn, and that severely impacted the endgame. I'm on mobile Brave, and attempting to promote presumably tried to
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by infomaniac 4y ago
It replaces no other projects. Continuous profiling solves a different problem to Mimir, Cortex, and Tempo. Mimir and Cortex are for metrics, Tempo is for distributed tracing, Phlare is for collecting profiling samples over time. Profiling
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How to autoscale Grafana Loki queries using KEDA(grafana.com)
40 points by infomaniac 4y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Strace to JSON parser(github.com)
1 points by infomaniac 8y ago|0 comments
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South Africa introduces first e-police station(techcentral.co.za)
2 points by infomaniac 12y ago|1 comments
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Exploring the new string-manipulation features of MariaDB 10(techblog.zando.co.za)
1 points by infomaniac 12y ago|0 comments
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Interactively debug Node.js CLI tools with PHPStorm(techblog.zando.co.za)
2 points by infomaniac 12y ago|1 comments
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Scarcity is no excuse for being a dick(infomaniac.co.za)
1 points by infomaniac 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Announcing Infomaniac-AMF(infomaniac.co.za)
1 points by infomaniac 12y ago|0 comments