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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
YMMV.

Personally, you would have to pry my Bitnami images out of my cold dead hands.. there is just no way my team of 2 can do anywhere near as good.

Comment · 5 years ago
It's a crypto wallet with a javascript API, so web apps can do crypto things.
Comment · 5 years ago
A game that exists in two blockchains would offer a way to bridge assets between them, or succeeded by one that does.

In fact the opposite is starting to be true: assets from game A being usable in game B.

Comment · 5 years ago
They chose their own tokens but those tokens are valued in ETH at the end of the day.
Comment · 5 years ago
Exactly this, Plaid "kindly requests" you violate the ToS you have with the bank and hand over the keys to your finances.

I have never noped out of anything so hard.

Comment · 5 years ago
Every single iOS user I know uses Chrome as their browser specifically because Safari is a broken mess in which nothing ever works.
Comment · 5 years ago
If this article was trying to get me to try ClojureScript, it had the exact opposite effect. Beautiful syntax to define a class had me at first, but then fell on its face when I saw that first "if" and compltely lost me with the gymnastics required to.. wait for it.. make one thing happen after another?

I just dont understand.

Comment · 5 years ago
Your experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with.

I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitter accounts are carefully curated by topic and their timelines are generally excellent.

Comment · 5 years ago
When your database is too big to backup that's a lot like a bank being too big to fail. Unwise long term strategy.
Comment · 5 years ago
Was spending $20k/mo with IBM at the peak in 2019, have since migrated to AWS and left IBM completely.

Thoughts:

- Support, including paid enterprise support, was hilariously bad. It would take 3 days of escalations to the account manager to get even get someone to look at a ticket, weeks to resolve anything.

- Billing is a broken mess. There is no common uuid between the billing and storage systems. It's literally not possible to link a billing line to a storage resource. Nobody at IBM I discussed this with felt it was a problem, but my stack dynamically provisions disks so this was actually a huge issue for me.

- Managed IoT services would change under us with no notice, new quotas kicking in that took us completely offline. Nobody bothered to reach out before flipping the quotas on.

I could continue but I think you get the picture.. dont take their $1k/mo poison pill, you dont want to go prod with these incapable morons.

Comment · 5 years ago
Just make sure you have a plan to move from the tX instances into something non-burstable as soon as load gets to 30% or do.. when those machines run out of burst, the pain is instant and severe.
Comment · 5 years ago
We just finished rewriting a 3 year old Rails app in Node+Knex, performance with 10k concurrent sessions is roughly 4x and p95 is 10x better.

Keep this in mind whenever someone decides Rails is fine for a quick prototype and then leaves you to deal with production.

I am of the unpopular opinion that Rails "many opinions" are confusing as hell to someone who doesnt breathe Rails due to the sea of implicitness: Symbols just appear you are supposed to know where from, debug requires context dumps, gems are an unholy mess of registering hooks and overloading core apis. Combined with "slow as a dog", I really dont see what there is to love here.

Comment · 5 years ago
For small numbers of large queries, Athena has been an incredible technology stack .. I pay pennies a month to run my analytics jobs on it (aggregates across a few hundred million rows, joins with tens of millions of rows into hundreds of thousands of rows).

I start my data as .csv.gz but the first step is a CTAS to extract columns and convert to compressed parquet. This step basically costs the most but gives a 10x data size reduction to downstream steps.

Athena does not work at all if you perform large numbers of small indexed read queries, definitely use a traditional database for that.

Comment · 5 years ago
Could someone explains in layman's terms what's going on here?

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