nethergoat

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Building Docker-Capable Machine Images(blog.mikebabineau.com)
2 points by nethergoat 12y ago|0 comments
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by nethergoat 15y ago
Update -- we just announced our $15mm series A from Google Ventures and Khosla: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/rumble-to-build-and-publish... http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/01/former-ceo-of-bioware-and-...
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by nethergoat 15y ago
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores) Engineers, artists, designers, more - http://www.rumblegames.com/careers/ Rumble was founded in the summer of 2011 by an all-star team of game industry veterans from Zynga, Activision, BioWare, Blizza
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by nethergoat 15y ago
Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) - Engineers and more EA2D is hiring! We're a new, autonomous studio within EA building cross-platform social games for gamers. We've just launched our first game, Dragon Age Legends: http://apps.facebook.
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by nethergoat 16y ago
It does what I need for now, but I certainly wouldn't turn down a pull request! I'm happy to answer questions or help if someone wants to contribute.
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by nethergoat 16y ago
I wrote a Python lib for this: https://github.com/EA2D/pingdom-python It just supports checks for now, but the framework is there for other resources to be quickly added.
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Basically, you just need to pass a Chef bootstrap script in through the instance's user-data. Knife, a Chef management and interaction tool, provides several bootstrap scripts you could use as a starting point: https://github.com/opscode/c
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Designing for fault tolerance and scaling out instead of individual node durability and scaling up is, in most cases, a sounder approach. Since the vast majority of applications map well to this case, it makes sense for Amazon to focus on
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Nope, CloudFormation is for infrastructure provisioning. Configuration management is still valuable post-boot. I've been using CloudFormation in conjunction with Chef - they're complementary tools, really.
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Yup, just one building over
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by nethergoat 16y ago
EA2D - Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) http://www.ea2d.com We're a small, autonomous studio within EA building social games for gamers. Our first monetized title, Dragon Age Legends, is about to enter closed beta and has been generating
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Note that it's not 1000 servers every week, it's up to 1000 servers in a given week. This was likely done to support the launch of a new game, and may factor in server turnover (they're on EC2). That being said, launching 1000 nodes for no
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by nethergoat 16y ago
I definitely wouldn't consider EA2D a startup, but fortunately the OP left it open ("startup/company"). That being said, I do think we (EA2D) have a lot in common with later-stage startups. Three big factors are our autonomy (near-complete
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by nethergoat 16y ago
This is precisely the approach they take. Section 3.4 ("The Model") begins, "The heart of the model is to treat incoming events as a Poisson process..."
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Business: Social games for gamers ( http://www.ea2d.com ) Languages: Java backend, AS3 frontend, Python + Ruby misc Note that we're very new (and hiring!), so much of this is still being built out. Software lifecycle: git for SCM (GitHub as
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Java/Flash/Automation Engineers (and more) - Redwood City (SF Bay Area), CA, USA EA2D ( http://ea2d.com ) We're a new division of EA focused on bringing big-name titles to the browser. Think Halo on Facebook, but with EA titles. We work i
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Redwood Shores, CA / San Francisco, CA (relocation available) EA2D is a new studio of EA created to bring big-title games to the web. Our first game is still months from launch, so much of the work is greenfield projects. We have ~25 peop
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Much of the problem is a result of the publishing model - deadlines are inherently more stressful when they're inflexible and you're expected to deliver a 100% finalized product. My studio (EA2D, a new division of EA) is developing web-base
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by nethergoat 16y ago
I wish I had the same foresight you did - my one regret about signing up for HN is not using my real name as my username. It would be great if pg added the ability to change one's username, but given the HN community's usual sentiment on fe
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Automating AMI creation across all four Amazon regions so it can be part of continuous integration. Goal is to integrate continuous deployment with EC2 auto scaling groups.
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Good start - I wasn't aware of the Litmus environment. The Animoto example is great, I love telling that story to people just starting to look into cloud computing. To add to the large-environment roll call, here are the persistent server
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Great, drop a line to greg@bizo.com - he can get you started and answer any questions you have
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by nethergoat 16y ago
(Disclaimer: I work for Bizo) Bizo allows you to target on specific business demographics (Company Size, Job Function, etc.), and to do so cheaply (starts at $5/day). One advantage Bizo has over Facebook, StumbleUpon, etc. is that the ads
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Are all 50k messages still in your inbox, or have you archived most of them?
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by nethergoat 16y ago
At Bizo ( http://dev.bizo.com ), we manage scheduled tasks via Hudson. It works great for us. It's centralized, has a web interface, and is already familiar to everyone on the team (we already used Hudson for CI). It has a ton of plugins,
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by nethergoat 16y ago
When the news broke, our traffic doubled almost instantly. Fortunately, our auto-scaling groups just fired up a bunch of new servers to compensate and our response time never took a hit. Chalk one up for EC2.
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by nethergoat 16y ago
Good question. Really, it depends on the TTL... but that's not very helpful. I checked the stats for one of our embedded apps, and I'm seeing a ratio of ~11 pageviews to 1 DNS query. That's with a 7.5 minute TTL. Clearly, your mileage may
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Going global with EC2 and GSLB(dev.bizo.com)
8 points by nethergoat 16y ago|3 comments
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by nethergoat 16y ago
There is physical separation between availability zones, though I don't think it's been made clear what that separation entails on a brick-and-mortar level. Here's Amazon's description: "Availability Zones are distinct locations within a R
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New AWS region now live: Asia Pacific (Singapore)(aws.typepad.com)
46 points by nethergoat 16y ago|4 comments

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