sintaks

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by sintaks 10y ago
Smart man. :)
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On Application Configuration(gist.github.com)
1 points by sintaks 14y ago|0 comments
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by sintaks 14y ago
I get it - but I'm arguing that the amount of egress traffic Glacier customers (in aggregate) are likely to drive is nothing in comparison to what S3 and/or EC2 already does (in aggregate). They'll likely contribute very little to a given r
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by sintaks 14y ago
That would definitely be cool. Pretty unlikely, however. When it comes to hardware, they like to keep each service's resources separate. While a given box or rack many handle many internal services, they're usually centered around a particu
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by sintaks 14y ago
Ah, right - definitely.
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by sintaks 14y ago
Not saying it couldn't be very useful for the data-heavy consumer. Just guessing this is more of an enterprise play than anything else. :)
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by sintaks 14y ago
It may not make sense today. Amazon is notorious for betting on the far future. They're also raising the bar on what archival data storage services could offer. When you ship your bits to Amazon, they're in 3+ DCs, and available programmati
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by sintaks 14y ago
I don't think they're loss-leadering on storage, but if they are, they don't think they will be for long. AWS (EC2 and S3 in particular) does very well when it comes to profit margins. I suspect they'd like to keep it that way, and that wha
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by sintaks 14y ago
Almost spot on. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416065
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by sintaks 14y ago
Close. Tiered, yes. But remember who we're talking about. First, no tape. The areal storage density of tape is lower than hard disks. Too many moving parts involved. Too hard to perform integrity checks on in a scalable, automated fashion w
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by sintaks 14y ago
See my post up top: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416065
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by sintaks 14y ago
Data cryonics indeed. One of the early names kicked around (and, indeed, its working name for over a year) was Cold Storage .
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by sintaks 14y ago
Yes. The forthcoming S3 Lifecycle Policy API additions should allow for exactly this, automatically.
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by sintaks 14y ago
Dropbox stores their stuff in S3 a little different. It's not a 1:1 correspondence between user files and objects under Dropbox's S3 account. The fact that they use S3 as their backing store means very little. It certainly sounds good to
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by sintaks 14y ago
He could just turn on object versioning.
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by sintaks 14y ago
Amazon has ridiculous internal bandwidth. The costly bit is external. The time delay is largely internal buffer time - they need to pull your data out of Glacier (a somewhat slow process) and move it to staging storage. Their staging server
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by sintaks 14y ago
Why wouldn't they stage in S3? :)
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by sintaks 14y ago
Former S3 employee here. I was on my way out of the company just after the storage engineering work was completed, before they had finalized the API design and pricing structure, so my POV may be slightly out of date, but I will say this: t
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Show HN: The Evolution of Catan World, an HTML5 reimagining of Settlers of Catan(ruthlessbyassociation.com)
3 points by sintaks 14y ago|0 comments
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by sintaks 14y ago
Curious video. While sketching out Google's Gmail UI, they place a sticky over the advertisement area that says, "Creepy ads." Yet what do I see upon logging in to Outlook.com? Crappy ads. I'll take creepy (relevant) over crappy, thanks.
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by sintaks 14y ago
Wait, so 95% of your customers experience a TTFB of less than 500 microseconds (tp95 of 450 microseconds)? I just want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. Because that's awesome.
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by sintaks 14y ago
I must say - that kind of perf is superb, though top percentile and averages aren't super representative of the average customer's experience. What are your tp50 and tp90 like? Your sub-150ms invalidation is equally if not more impressive,
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by sintaks 14y ago
Also, that "2 billion requests per day" might sound silly to someone who serves that in an hour...
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by sintaks 14y ago
Make the main asset that your 3rd-party devs load a loader, and not the lib itself. Teach the loader how to find out where the latest version is, and how to load it. Then teach it to sing, and, preferably, to dance.
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by sintaks 14y ago
"Which brings us to the most important principle on HN: civility. Since long before the web, the anonymity of online conversation has lured people into being much ruder than they'd dare to be in person. So the principle here is not to say a