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by sandfox 13y ago
The banks have nothing to do with the cost of commercial rent around old street roundabout and the shoreditch triangle. It's expensive because all the silly startups now think they need to be here to sound credible / look cool &#x
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by sandfox 13y ago
Writing code/recipes/etc for chef/ansible/puppet is no different to writing code for an application. Just because you think you have dictated (in code) that things should be a certain way does not mean that what will be
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by sandfox 13y ago
nagios is awful :-), active checks are ultimately a dead end. Heartbeat style stuff is where it's at. You should definately check out sensu and riemann, (or hevean forbid if you really like node.js everything Godot) http://s
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by sandfox 13y ago
"mission critical"...
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by sandfox 13y ago
because PHP is "slow" and c is "fast", just about anything thats written in PHP such as FastCGI parser would be daftly slow compared to a counterpart written in c or c++. Most people will not be prepared to sacrifice per
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by sandfox 13y ago
You could (and many) do the same thing with git.
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by sandfox 13y ago
Hadoop cluster of of GPU + SSD'd up machines is not going to be cheap.... (but would be fun)
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by sandfox 13y ago
Why is your logging library handling log rotation? Also, not everyone logs to disk straight from process or at all.
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by sandfox 13y ago
I know microbenchmarks are generally daft and horribly misapplied, but it might be worth showing/measuring the difference between using built-in procedural methods and your OO ones on some some example use cases to stop people speculat
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by sandfox 13y ago
They can (and often are), but some of the drones are capable of completely computer controlled take off and landing. I remember seeing somewhere that the human drone pilots caused more crashes when landing than the computer controlled ones.
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by sandfox 13y ago
Why shouldn't a 'devops' company complain about dependency? It's their domain completely. Treating anything as a "fact of life" is not going to make the problem go away... And what about anyone out there trying
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by sandfox 13y ago
Just because you have tools ease dealing with dependencies, it does not mean that those dependencies and the cost of dealing with them has gone away. Easier to not have the problem instead of solving it...
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by sandfox 13y ago
only 30 mins of data retention... even AWS gives you 2 weeks at 5min resolution for free (albeit only stuff the hypervisor can measure because they don't run an agent, so no RAM etc).
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by sandfox 13y ago
It should probably be noted that: a) you don't have use node's built in HTTP server (yeah, I know, nearly everyone will), you are more thn free to write your own or use one from it's module repository (npm) b) The entire HTTP
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by sandfox 13y ago
well, they do give a million free push messages a month to start with which slightly skews it. "1 Million FREE Push messages/month. $0.001 per additional Push message"[1] [1] https://go.urbanairship.com/accoun
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by sandfox 13y ago
I wonder how long till AWS provides some form of realtime websocket/whatever connection service. (I admit it will be some time before things are stable enough to make it sensible for AWS to get involved). This marks as interesting expa
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by sandfox 13y ago
And this is why he has done this and you haven't :-p Though seriously, when was HN ever about health and safety?
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by sandfox 13y ago
Errmmmm don't think anyone is offended by the word blitz, or ever has been. It's a pretty common term over here (UK) to describe a period of intense activity of any kind. Everyone from soldiers to school teachers use it. e.g we need to blit
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New realtime socket server - Prism(groups.google.com)
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by sandfox 13y ago
Why not just plant lots of explosive devices WITH a trigger mechanism... make the numbers game work for you :-)
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by sandfox 14y ago
Pedant time! ssh is just one of many transports that git can use.
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by sandfox 14y ago
If anyone has ever bothered looking at any Netflix talks / slideshares [1] about APIs, they would have surely seen the various graphs detailing how their API usage started and grew. TL:DR 3rd party usage of the APIs used to be big, but then
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by sandfox 14y ago
This is fairly key. Alot of people think in a home-centric fashion when you mention remote work and mis the crux of remote work, that you are in fact working remotely with regards to the (main) office/hq/etc.
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by sandfox 14y ago
Define slow? Which particular aspect?
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by sandfox 14y ago
Google twelephone
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by sandfox 14y ago
For a potential reason why this might not make any difference to Amazons revenue/sales/whatever one should read this gem of a past by John Allspaw (Ops whiz kid for those who have no idea who he is) :: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/01/03
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by sandfox 14y ago
Yeah, if you terminate rather than stop the instance then everything that was created as part of the instance will be destroyed by default although you can choose to not kill attached EBS drives. Any EBS drives that were attached after inst
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by sandfox 14y ago
depends, TL;DR, local disk drives (Ephemeral) do not persist anything that wasn't part of the base image if you power down the machine (doesn't include restarts - data is persisted in this situation). network based drives (EBS) persist all
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by sandfox 14y ago
Or generally possible directly with web requests. Pretty much everything is torn down at the end of each request. (Yeah PHP-FPM slightly muddies the waters)
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by sandfox 14y ago
It turns out that I don't know my left from my right.

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