arafsheikh
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Comment · 4 years ago
It was just a guess :)
Would be interesting to see the RCA if/when it’s published.
Comment · 4 years ago
Typical case of degraded mode of operation, I presume. That’s how well engineered systems should behave when they’re about to go down.
My guess is that this particular outage was caused due to a scaling constraint somewhere in the stack.
Comment · 4 years ago
Congrats on successfully completing the internship! Looks like you made a significant contribution.
This is a well written summary as well. Reading it brought back memories from my internship at GS 3 years ago. :)
I also wrote a blog post about my experience going from an intern to FTE if you’re interested in checking it out: https://www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/transaction-banking/...
Good luck!
Comment · 5 years ago
As Matt Levine likes to say - everything is securities fraud.
> contributing to global warming is securities fraud, and sexual harassment by executives is securities fraud, and customer data breaches are securities fraud, and mistreating killer whales is securities fraud, and whatever else you’ve got.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
Comment · 5 years ago
A good number of comments here mention dealing with the GPU is going to be a major hurdle. What makes porting GPU drivers significantly more challenging than everything else?
Comment · 5 years ago
Curious to know if AWS has ever hiked the price of any of its services.
Comment · 5 years ago
Sounds like for some reason the monitor is running at 30Hz. You can confirm that using an app like EasyRes.
Comment · 5 years ago
> This is only likely to make it slightly harder to track the small fraction of users already taking strong measures to prevent being tracked.
This statement isn't correct. That small fraction of the user would've already turned off IDFA tracking. With this move Apple is merely prompting the user before turning the tracking on. I'd say FB is worried about the larger fraction of the users who aren't privacy conscious.
Comment · 5 years ago
Compute + DB should cover a lot of use cases, but it’ll be great to have support for more AWS services. DNS (Route53) issues are a pain to deal with for example.
Comment · 5 years ago
What do multiple monitors have to do with having a dev env on EC2?
But on a similar note, I use VS Code's Remote SSH plugin to connect to an EC2 on one monitor and terminal + browser on the other. It's not my primary dev env, but it's great for experiments and side projects.