enigmabomb
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When I'm not working you can find me playing with model helicopters, writing, or seeing what's going on around the corner.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Does it work for drones
Comment · 6 years ago
I logged into just to say this is spot on.
The complexity added by all the services for deploy, bug tracing, and dear god, security auditing, made for a living hellscape that crippled our ability to ship software for some time. Not to mention the bifurcation of resources to keep the monolith happening for customers using it while the microservice mess is being created.
There is almost a zealot-like-brainwashing that has happened to folks. I made case after case to our engineering team "This doesn't solve our business use cases. We're prematurely scaling. We're unable to move code into production efficiently. This is very hard to understand for outsiders joining our team." --- All fell on deaf ears since I "didn't get it." When I put a hard stop on adding any more microservices without a use scale for why we need that scale, I was called "toxic."
In the end we fired the whole team since they wouldn't buy into destroying their microservice dream world for something practical and put everything back in the monolith except for one service.
Our amazon bill is 1/8th what it was. Security auditing/upkeep is 1/100th what it once was. Deploys are done without fanfare more than 1x/week. Our average response time is down from 500ms to less than 100ms since we aren't hop-scotching services all over God's green earth.
Note: This isn't a tiny project. 200k users, 700-1000 requests/minute during peak times, lots of data moving through this.
Comment · 11 years ago
We're working on solving this at http://kittyhawk.io by creating a culture of safety. I'm also working on some interesting educational materials.
Comment · 11 years ago
It feels to me like you're getting a bad deal here. You responsibly disclose stuff and you get ... T-Shirts?
I hope they fit.
Comment · 12 years ago
I spent 6 months building http://KillSwit.ch and really enjoyed the process, but I don't have time for it anymore because of QuiQui.me
It's written in Laravel 4.1 and uses Amazon Web Services. I'll sell the domain, all the code, and all the marketing assets.
Comment · 12 years ago
Cheers Scott, I consult in this space also, though recently I've been trying to productize my way out of it. I built http://killswit.ch to help folks like us who are one person agencies and have to deal with sending traffic to sites they don't control. It sucks when your KPI's suffer because of someone else. Let me know if you want to give it a whirl.
Comment · 12 years ago
I sent you a contact form email. =)
Comment · 12 years ago
Growth hacking is largely gimmick driven. It's about quick wins. Here's an article I wrote about why gimmicks have to work with the product: http://joshuaziering.com/on-marketing-gimmicks/
Comment · 13 years ago
PSA: This guy's nightclub makes a really mean meatball sandwich.
Make sure that recipe is backed up.
Comment · 13 years ago
Hey Scott,
The adrank could be affected by things like this but here's what I would ask you to consider: Google is very sly about measuring on page performance metrics. If you have downtime, how many visitors do you think are going to return to the Search Engine Results Page? Google knows this and could use it as a an indicator of a poor performing ad. My service is different from manual pausing for this reason. Here's a good article on the type of work they're doing to create adrank: http://vuurr.com/impact-of-google-adwords-quality-score-on-c...
Specifically, I've not had a "penalty" for pausing ads myself but the ads were typically performing well. I pause the bad ones pretty quickly.
Cheers,
Josh
Comment · 13 years ago
When I was doing agency work the thing that disappointed me the most was that we had LARGE clients with BIG budgets who would have SERIOUS downtime for no particular reason. It was so frustrating. This service comes from that frustration.
Comment · 13 years ago
Let me know if you have any questions. [email protected]