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by ksmith14 2y ago
I was actually using Pushover before I switched to OpsGenie. I typically have my phone set to do not disturb overnight and Pushover didn't have a "critical alerts" option to punch through - OpsGenie did. I may revisit it sinc
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by ksmith14 2y ago
I’ve been using OpsGenie’s free tier for a number of years as part of a home automation/monitoring project. Guess it’s time to shop for alternatives.
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by ksmith14 2y ago
Google staffs SRE teams as either 8 in one location/TZ or two geographically distributed teams of 6 -- often some pairwise combination of U.S., Europe, and Australia to accommodate reasonable on-call shifts. The on-call compensation va
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by ksmith14 3y ago
I have a house with 3 levels and when I moved in, 2 of those levels had analog thermostats. I'd be watching TV in the basement with the heat set to 68, go upstairs to bed, and realize I'd left the heat up so I'd trudge back d
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by ksmith14 4y ago
Having lived at worked in Poughkeepsie at IBM for several years found it strange to see it on HN as well. I've since moved to Massachusetts but something my wife and I really miss about the Hudson Valley are all of the historic sites a
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by ksmith14 5y ago
When car shopping a free months ago I learned that Kia wasn’t offering its UvoLink service in Massachusetts and I put it together pretty quickly. I was surprised though to discover the its sibling brand, Hyundai, _does_ offer its telematics
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by ksmith14 5y ago
It's good you learned that lesson about having someone else announce the server, but isn't always that simple. With things like Apache Aurora it would often announce jobs as soon as the process started. With something like Finagle
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by ksmith14 6y ago
This brief excerpt really does not do the Manager Tools' feedback model justice. All of the background has been stripped from it in order to fit in a pithy blog post and without that context it does sound jarring or shallow. Over the
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by ksmith14 6y ago
I worked for VMware from 2007-2014 on things other than the core virtualization products. I think you’re overestimating the situation. There is a group that did have a fair number of CS PhDs to develop and maintain the core piece — the virt
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by ksmith14 7y ago
From the blog post announcing the FitbitOS 4.1 SDK it sounds like custom always-on clocks are in the works: https://dev.fitbit.com/blog/2019-12-19-announcing-fitbit-os-... (Disclosure: I work at Fitbit but not on any o
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by ksmith14 8y ago
The Google SREs mentioned this in their book; the Chubby locking service had uptime that was so high that folks started to neglect making their own services resilient to Chubby failures: https://landing.google.com/sre/b
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by ksmith14 8y ago
This is exactly where I've found it can be helpful as well. At a prior job we created extremely large, complicated CloudFormation templates in JSON that could have been made much simpler with Jsonnet and the ability to do comprehension
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by ksmith14 11y ago
As a VMware employee from 2007 to (January) 2014 the only time I recall any fear from leadership or product teams about HyperV was in 2008 or so when it was about to come out and then for a little while after it first came out. We knew we h