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by tgeek 7y ago
Hi there, Hey there, I lead Developer Advocacy at AWS for Serverless ( https://twitter.com/chrismunns ). I'll give you that this 80% number seems pretty out there. I don't know how that is measured or what it would
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by tgeek 7y ago
Hey there, I lead Developer Advocacy at AWS for Serverless ( https://twitter.com/chrismunns ) and have been involved in this space since pretty much the start. Thought I'd toss my hat in the ring there as there seem to b
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by tgeek 10y ago
"AWS costs almost twice more than analogous DO servers, but AWS has way more features." When you us AWS you are paying for more than just a cheap VPS, which essentially is all DO is. It's comparing fast food to a fancy steak
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by tgeek 11y ago
I find the better pattern here is to limit and discourage SSH and then monitor and log the hell out of it. There are numerous tools out there that can centralize any actions being taken on a host and sending it to a log that can be centrali
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by tgeek 11y ago
AZ's are typically 5-15miles apart. Needs to be a pretty large hurricane that far in land to take out all the various datacenters. Also, just to clarify, you can do multi-region RDS read-replicas for MySQL: https://docs.aws.
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by tgeek 11y ago
I've always wondered why this type of information hasn't been attached to a driver's license much like organ donorship is in many states. Seems like a prime system to keep such a thing organized and available.
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by tgeek 11y ago
More likely this. AWS has at numerous talks mentioned a slightly franken-xen fork of Xen.
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How to Optimize Your Workflow for iOS Development(hakkalabs.co)
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by tgeek 12y ago
"The price premium of using AWS is high enough that it's trivial to afford leasing tons of excess capacity to handle failures and still save tons of money." "AWS certainly is convenient, but it's also so expensive I
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by tgeek 12y ago
I sincerely hope you are joking here.
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by tgeek 12y ago
np! at the end of the day we all hate on call. cheers.
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by tgeek 12y ago
You say LUN, are these SAN devices, or is it direct attached storage? Was the replication, load balancing, and snapshotting all something that you set up and manage yourselves? --edit-- Ahh you've been editing your comments so the thre
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by tgeek 12y ago
Calling Postgres the leading open source DB is probably a bit more than a stretch these days, but yes its quite popular with startups(though one would argue nosql DBs are #1 in the eyes of most startups sadly). Unfortunately one of the plac
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by tgeek 12y ago
Can you completely snapshot those volumes at any time, recreate them and attach them to new servers? Could you take these snapshots and easily copy them around the world?(again assuming you could snapshot). Are those SSD's automaticall
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by tgeek 12y ago
there are languages inside of Amazon that are first class citizens (java & ruby mostly, node.js more now). Go is too new, moving too fast, and hasn't seen the same kind of adoption yet to warrant an SDK.(despite what the folks here
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by tgeek 12y ago
AWS has Amazon Linux: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/ Since its the default OS for Linux on AWS, it probably has a pretty large install base. More than most would probably assume.
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by tgeek 12y ago
AWS doesn't oversubscribe at all. This is a pretty baseless rumor.
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by tgeek 12y ago
US-East isn't a single building. Per AWS its over 10 datacenters that make up US-East(from a post they had in 2012). You aren't in the same building as their availability zones, you are probably talking about their Direct Connect
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by tgeek 13y ago
10Gen is based in NYC, so yeah they get around.
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by tgeek 13y ago
This isn't ARP per se as one would traditionally expect it. This is the networking in VPC handling the movement of the ENI.
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by tgeek 13y ago
"That being said, opsworks is still based on chef, which is still cumbersome." re:chef I don't think this is necessarily a fair assessment and true for all. There are a ton of community cookbooks out there, and a very large c
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by tgeek 13y ago
"Except every other provider enables swap by default." This is false and 100% incorrect. Most AMI's on AWS don't enable SWAP by default whether supplied by a 3rd party or AWS themselves. Its not a forced thing either way
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by tgeek 13y ago
I lived in a building where the landlord stopped renting out apartments normally and started instead putting them on Airbnb. He charged ~30% for doing it via Airbnb than the normal rents would have been. Then they raised rents more on apart
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by tgeek 13y ago
everyone saying they can't hit certain sites(images on Wordpress/amazon/etc) is actually seeing the affect of their ISP's networks and the CDNs those sites use. Lotta Level3 issues right now. CDNs are often peered as clo
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by tgeek 13y ago
There seems to be a lot of wasted breath in these comments about IPv6. Given that its unlikely that your provider even supports IPv6 on their networks, and that globally the traffic via IPv6 is nearly non-existent, I wouldn't spend too
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by tgeek 13y ago
I built 2 CloudFormation templates to allow you to easily spin up a ton of these things across multiple availability zones. It uses the Amazon Linux AMI that exists in each region instead of the ones listed, and builds up the dependencies a
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by tgeek 14y ago
Given that TOS's are often written by Lawyers it seems that their reading like a legal document has a high probability.
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by tgeek 14y ago
Fmr employee as well. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you've never been involved in running/managing a huge online community(ies) with in person social interactions as the primary goal. I might be wrong, so apologies ahead of time
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by tgeek 14y ago
People can't reach out to you unless you are part of a group or via a direct "friend" relationship. Sounds like you joined a group that has someone spamming the rest of the members. Meetup themselves won't spam you like that unless you ask
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by tgeek 14y ago
Fmr Meetup employee, for about 2.5 years, several years ago now. On the tech side, but the company is/was small enough that everyone got some voice about how things worked, which was fantastic.(note i say a voice, but not necessarily a vote

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