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by ryanfitz 11y ago
I would look into AWS Lambda. Lambda host backend functions written in javascript, python or java. You can then use the AWS javascript sdk in your frontend code to invoke these lambda functions. This will be very low cost and cuts out a lot
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
I believe its not an 80% project fail rate, but rather 80-85% of the programmers working this way quit.
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
We use Teletraan heavily. Currently we have about 500 deploys per day, including the auto deploys. Slightly off topic, I'm a big fan of continuous deployments, but 500 deployments a day seems excessive. Assuming an 8 hour work day, t
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
Github was hosted at rackspace, here is there blogpost about it https://github.com/blog/493-github-is-moving-to-rackspace From their blog posted last month: As we started transitioning hosts and services to our own da
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
I recently read a blog post from Github about them operating their own datacenter http://githubengineering.com/githubs-metal-cloud/ Im not positive, but it sounds like a fairly recent switch from a cloud provider to th
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
You were probably already "gone" once HR contacted you in June. HR's job is to protect the company, at no point were they concerned with improving your work relationship with the other employee. However, they were concerned w
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
I do a good bit of weight lifting, typically 4 or 5 times a week. I find it a great way to disconnect and focus on something very simple / straightforward for an hour. Its also a great way to relieve stress.
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
I think you're over thinking things. Tech hiring is so random that you could have the most impressive list of projects on github, but if you get asked a single data structure question that you stumble on they might pass. Similarly, you
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
I bet if she scanned the work from office people she would also find people who just don't work.
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
Location: New York, NY Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, node.js, iOS, Swift, Objective-C, RESTful apis, angularjs, ansible, docker, extensive AWS experiences Resume: https://s3.amazonaws.com/fitz
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by ryanfitz 11y ago
I've been using DynamoDB since it was released. In over 3 and 1/2 years of use, this is the first time I've experienced DynamoDB being down.
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
Other than ec2, what AWS services were you using and how did you migrate those? At minimum, I'd guess you were using elb for load balancing, sqs for queues and elastic cache for redis.
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
When I setup an AWS account for pet projects the very first thing I do is create a billing alarm that alerts me the second my bill goes above $0. This way if something is accidentally running without my knowledge, ill get an alert (email &#
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
Amazon also places limits on all of its services. I would think one of the reasons for these default limits is to help with cases of abuse. You can learn more about them at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest&#x2F
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
Didn't mean to imply no need for Hologram or not to keep dev as close as possible to production. However, I do think you should be doing this before looking into a solution like hologram. I've seen many startups that run all their
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
For working with AWS apis, securing access keys, and granting least privilege, the first step to take is to make completely separate AWS accounts per environment. Make a Bigco-Prod, Bigco-Test, Bigco-Dev AWS accounts. Developers only access
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From MVC to MVVM in Swift(rasic.info)
1 points by ryanfitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
I've only briefly read over the documentation, but this service seems to not follow deployment best practices that aws and others such as netflix have been talking about for years. Specifically the pattern of pre-baking an ami with you
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
I have a very similar setup as the one mentioned in the article where we create a full baked ami, then create a new autoscaling group which attaches itself with a load balancer. The reason you want a fully created ami is to greatly cut down
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
I've been using DynamoDB since it was released. I wrote a nodejs driver[1] and a nodejs data mapper for it[2], so I have a decent bit of experience with it. Browsing the DocumentDB docs the two services seem to be very different. Dynam
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
I recently created a login flow for a RESTful API. The solution I went with was instead of thinking of it as a high level activity such as login, what I was really doing was creating auth tokens to then be used in the Authorization header i
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by ryanfitz 12y ago
I bake ami using both packer and ansible and then do blue/green deployments using asgard from netflix. Asgard streamlines the whole process of creating a new autoscaling group, ramp up new instances and then cut of live traffic to the
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by ryanfitz 13y ago
About 50% were through my personal network, the rest came from various online sources. Angellist worked really well for me, I highly recommend trying them if you're looking for early stage startups. Linkedin was overloaded with recruit
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by ryanfitz 13y ago
I can only speak for NYC, but its very hot. A couple of months ago my startup failed and I was looking for a job. I was only interested in early stage startups and wanted to work on every part of the tech stack (frontend, backend, devops...
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by ryanfitz 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC / REMOTE Fullstack developer with 10 years of experience. Worked with many startups, having launched products both on the web and mobile (ios). Specialties: Highly scalable and reliable applications (powered by AWS),
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Show HN: Vogels, a DynamoDB data mapper for node.js(github.com)
2 points by ryanfitz 13y ago|0 comments
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by ryanfitz 14y ago
Thats great to hear the ami bakery is finally getting open sourced. I wrote my own ami bakery and it has completely changed the way we do releases at my startup. I'm Looking forward to hacking on this for the contest.
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by ryanfitz 14y ago
Recently, I switched to pre-baking AMIs and then launching those images with auto scaling groups. This has simplified and sped up our deploys substantially (and reduced our costs), we can go from code commit to deployed on production in abo
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Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It(blog.mailchimp.com)
213 points by ryanfitz 14y ago|109 comments
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by ryanfitz 14y ago
Look into intermittent fasting diets. They go by various names leangains, renegade, warrior diet, but all follow the same principles of 12 - 20hours of fasting and then a small eating window at night to get in all your nutrition. I've been

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