ti_ranger

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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> Maybe AWS should put their dashboards on GCP Then the status page would be almost entirely useless ...
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> Yes but only if you initiate a claim and follow their steps. Check out these onerous terms: There's most likely a reason for this. Like, maybe in the past AWS customers have tried claiming for SLA credits for incidents that didn&
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> It is kind of perplexing that AWS dogfoods its own status page. > You'd think they would have learned from that. They did. The page has been updated numerous times since the start of this incident.
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon. You imply that Amazon/AWS doesn't empl
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> For my own startup, I built a small cluster of 17 servers for just beneath $55K, and that had a month-to-month expense of $600 placed in a co-lo. In comparison, the same setup at AWS would be $96K per month. Why would you build exactly
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> When determining what to use for development of my SaaS, I did a comparison of what you actually get from providers. The full article is at https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance- ... Your resu
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> Is this because ISP's can see DNS traffic? as it's in the clear over UDP... Not necessarily. It could very easily be done via IP address matching (think BGP communities that advertise specific subnets between one part of a ne
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
That's impossible. In my country, our anti-ISP media claims that we have the most expensive internet in the world, but 10/5Mbps FTTH (in most cases with free upgrades to 20/2Mbps for the duration of COVID-19 WFH guidance mand
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
In my opinion, there is really only one valid complaint in the article: > We need more choices for our ISPs If you fix this, e.g. by requiring all last-mile owners to offer the last-mile access at or below their (audited, sufficiently-pr
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
Actually, maybe it's more the fact that at a prominent tech company: * zsh is the default shell on a large proportion of servers that have read-only /home, so you can't easily change to your preferred shell * a training guide
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
Sorry, but I've read too many posts that say "bash sucks, it doesn't do <thing that bash has done for years before zsh did it> like zsh does".
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> Also what can bash do that zsh can’t? I have noticed that a lot of the features listed in https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Major-Dif... aren't present in zsh, but I am not sure of
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
This is one of my primary dislikes of zsh ...
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by ti_ranger 6y ago
> - Oh-my-zsh has a lot of plugins for auto-completion As does bash-completion, which is available in many (but not all :-/) Linux distros and via Homebrew on MacOS and [pre-dates]( https://github.com/scop/bash-c
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> For simple graph diagrams it's easy enough to open up a separate graphviz .dot file, write up a graph specification, run it through dot or neato, and include the .png in your markdown file. And then automate this with a Makefile.
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> Some examples of this would be Oracle Identity Manager (which is absolutely awful but is still actually the only IdM solution really capable of scaling with massive enterprise companies) The "massive enterprise company" I wor
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> Also added option to export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant "paravirtialized" So they don't seem to be very serious about multi-tenancy? (Spectre and Meltdown are more or less considered the nails in t
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> it apparently began the internal renewal process at the exact instant the cert expired (rather than 30 days in advance as is common with ACME-based renewal). Was this some time ago? The FAQ for ACM ( https://aws.amazon.com&#x
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> A t3.large only has a "baseline performance" of 30% > Instead, I'd compare e2-std-2 to m5.large like you started to do so. Yes, a "baseline performance" of 100% would more or less be an M-family instance, bu
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> This is already possible on ESXi with Linux guests for years now, so it’s certainly a solved problem in some capacity. And has been possible on KVM (e.g. VirtManager, RHV/RHEV/Ovirt) for years too. Xen 3 also supported online
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> Still no live VM migrations? Based on what evidence? Statements from Google that AWS doesn't do live migration?
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> We take on the statistical multiplexing over the datacenter and move VMs around You're implying here that EC2 doesn't do this. On what basis?
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
I've spend 1 minute skimming some of the docs, but it's unclear whether these tools can do a better job than the docker-like tooling. The vmadm "build an image from scratch with a json file" doesn't help in building
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
Actually, the post was written by someone located outside the U.S. (a place not using any US-specific time-zone), and posted to the status page by someone else located outside the U.S.
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> We see numerous problems with AWS services including but not limited to being unable to create new EC2 instances in any AZ. How were you launching? Using EC2 directly (e.g. `aws ec2` cli or RunInstances API call - https://do
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> I just don't like how much power the project holds over the entire linux ecosystem ("oh hey here's systemd-logind don't mind us taking over all-things-login"-type scenarios) That's totally not the case, al
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> Many things about Linux would be easier if we standardized on only one implementation of each thing rather than multiple competing implementations (e.g. only one desktop environment, only one text editor). But we would also lose everyt
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
What is the situation for "reproduce a currently-installed system from a list of packages (including version/release if relevant) and a tarball/git checkout/package-deployment/puppet run etc. of configs"? As fa
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> The systemd debacle is what led me down a rabbit hole toward the BSD's. As far as I can tell (not actually using Debian or Ubuntu myself), there was only a debacle in Debian and Ubuntu, because they took too long to decide, and en
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by ti_ranger 7y ago
> What people use in those sitations is Anycast. This requires that you blow a publicly-advertisable prefix for every unique combination of services you would want to fail-over. E.g., if you wanted to be able to have independent fail-ove

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