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Comment · 5 years ago
>> As of April 29, 2021 Amazon S3 is discontinuing the S3 BitTorrent feature and it will no longer be available to enable\. AWS will support customers currently using the S3 BitTorrent feature for 12 months\. After April 29, 2022, BitTorrent clients will no longer connect to Amazon S3\.
Comment · 6 years ago
I presume this has to do with support for ARM with the database software.

PostgreSQL appears to have had ARM support for sometime. Mysql only added it with 8.0. As far as the other database options are concerned, ARM isn't even supported yet.

Comment · 6 years ago
If you don't do that, you get the python 2 to 3 transition. Which is still going on.

PHP did drop some stuff between 5 and 7, but all of it had been marked deprecated for some time prior (often years).

Comment · 6 years ago
I do appreciate being framework agnostic. I think more common components like this would benefit from being built that way.
Comment · 6 years ago
Often there are choices made to support a larger range of devices that require comprises on graphic quality. It doesn't make a lot of sense to build a game only 5% of your customers can afford to run.

Next-gen consoles will have to become more ubiquitous before the previous gen consoles are left out of game releases.

Comment · 6 years ago
Anytime you need to stream data to or from a client, like audio/video or data. Single page apps have a much better experience.

From an architecture standpoint, it does also allow a much simpler separation of concerns.

That said, it does it get used more often that it should and can take more time to build than a multi-page app.

Comment · 6 years ago
Nightly builds have some fixes, but it does seem to be mostly abandoned.
Comment · 6 years ago
For those interested in static tying for SPA's and Web applications it seems to have won.

That doesn't mean everyone needs to use it.

Comment · 6 years ago
With PHP (What slack was using at one point for some of the services. I think everything uses Hack now which may still maintain a similar model). Switching directories can be mostly atomic.

PHP-FPM with opcaching doesn't need to access files once all the opcodes are cached (turn off file modification checks in production). When you move the directory, you will restart the service.

Unless a request hits a file that is rarely used and not cached, you should be not receive any errors moving the directories.

Comment · 7 years ago
utf8mb4 is the default in mysql 8.
Comment · 8 years ago
Minneapols/St. Paul

US Internet - 1 Gbit for $70/mo or 10 Gbit for $298.00/mo. Coverage is limited to south Minneapolis and a little bit of Edina.

Northstar Fiber - $70/mo. Covers only apartment and condo buildings

Centrylink - $120/mo. Has service around the entire metro, but only in random pockets.

Comment · 9 years ago
WOW is instanced, but the instances are all hosted by Blizzard. Instances are basically a replication of the world state, and managed automatically depending on load. If you join a group, you will automatically switch to the instance those players are in.

In Destiny, some of the instances are hosted directly on the client. Depending where you are and what you are doing.

Comment · 9 years ago
They are pushing forward with this by purchasing a controlling stake in BAMTech, which is the streaming tech company behind HBO Now, MLB and others.
Comment · 9 years ago
In my experience dealing with this, it depends on who initiates the refund.

If the consumer initiates the chargeback, it will be handled in the consumer's currency. Which will result in a fun reconciliation problem for the business.

If the company initiates it will be done in the currency it was originally charged in. Which will give the consumer more or less money depending on exchange rates.

Comment · 9 years ago
Its not uncommon to in sass stacks to have multiple data stores, each specialized for different use cases. I do see it appealing to have one system that can support each type of use case and able to tune that as needed.

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