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fidget··on DigitalOcean lost our server
As if this can't happen on physical machines also.
fidget··on Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc
Oh, I'm aware I can read it. I'm just not convinced about sharing it on such a broad public forum.
fidget··on Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc
> LWN subscriber-only content

kinda shitty

fidget··on Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Send People to Mars by 2025
Given how, you know, polio is still a thing, it seems to be the whole distribution area that we're struggling the most with, and less the raw scientific aspects.
fidget··on High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks at NYSE Floor
Seems fairly obvious that market making would become almost full automated eventually
fidget··on Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants
Didn't realise this was an editorial
fidget··on Litvinenko Inquiry Publishes Report
The Litvinenko death occurred prior to the Russian Georgian war, prior to Obama's grand reset, prior to the failure of that reset, prior to the Crimean crisis, in essence, prior to the current political situation. And there has never been any real doubt that it was orchestrated by the KGB, with (at the very least) the knowledge of Putin.
fidget··on Outlier Detection in SQL
It's redshift, based on the contents of previous blogs.
fidget··on Dear GitHub
Github kills Bitbucket with this one feature: uptime
fidget··on Why Kubernetes isn't using Docker's libnetwork
Nice to finally see it in writing: "Throughout this investigation Docker has made it clear that they’re not very open to ideas that deviate from their current course or that delegate control"
fidget··on Lab explosions and accidents

    Takeaways:
    Don't store strong chemicals in your bedroom
Some of these seem the wrong side of irresponsible
fidget··on 'New' Python modules of 2015
For those of us more dictionary oriented, there is https://pypi.python.org/pypi/voluptuous (which is OK for the most part, as long as you are only trying to do validation, and nothing too crazy)
fidget··on Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux
Sure. I'm still paying it once per box lifetime, which really isn't too bad. And given I'm orchestrating stuff etc etc, I can use fairly large boxes and get quite a lot of work out of one lifetime.
fidget··on Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux
Except, well, I don't care. All my images derive from ubuntu, so I pay the download cost once, due to docker having this whole delta thing going on, and storage cost really isn't a problem. Developers know how to apt-get usually, so that's less support cost on me. In fact, most of them run ubuntu themselves, which is a massive help with dev to prod parity. Oh and of course, there are more packages and a whole lot more forums/community etc etc.
fidget··on What the web platform can learn from Node.js: The Darwinism of small modules
A lot of the GP's concerns are around libraries breaking compatability, and upgrading deps being hard, but Go doesn't exactly have all the answers in that regard.
fidget··on Avast’s man in the middle
It wouldn't be particuarly hard for avast to operate this system without having the key for the CA leaving your machine.
fidget··on EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Which would be `$0.067 * 32 * 24 * 30 = $1543.68` on demand
fidget··on Pledge() – a new mitigation mechanism in OpenBSD
Probably worth noting that seccomp bpf programs are pretty far from turing complete.

Though they are a bit complex.

fidget··on Busybox removes support for systemd
Seems a bit childish
fidget··on Pivotal Greenplum Database has been open sourced
We had a cluster last week spend 7 hours in a DB health 'unknown' state. Response from AWS? Spin up a new cluster from snapshot.
fidget··on HAproxy in the era of Microservices
I use it post reload to persist the state of health checks, which I thought was pretty cool. However, I don't believe you can add a (new) server to a backend via the stats socket.
fidget··on HAproxy in the era of Microservices
Unfortunately consul integration isn't useful for us.
fidget··on HAproxy in the era of Microservices
That's egress traffic :) And yeah, https://github.com/QubitProducts/bamboo/issues/143#issuecomm... is currently my best idea (with some additional nfq stuff). Doesn't help when requests span the entirety of the reload though.
fidget··on HAproxy in the era of Microservices
I'm moving away from HAProxy. The lack of zero downtime config reloads is consistently causing problems, especially in a high reload environment (i.e. using bamboo [0]). One team deploys an application that goes into a restart loop, changing our routing table constantly? Well there goes our 99th percentile out the window.

That said, would prefer not to be using nginx, so if anyone has any recommendations for high quality zero-downtime-reloadable HTTP proxies, I'd be very interested.

[0]: https://github.com/QubitProducts/bamboo

fidget··on Scholars measure the economic impact of VC-funded companies
I wonder what those numbers would look like if you included private companies
fidget··on Running a modern infrastructure stack
Christ the amount of native advertising in these threads is getting annoying
fidget··on Twitter announces layoffs
It's also not uncommon to tell your employees they don't need to come in to work during that last month.
fidget··on Tame() – bad kitty, no socket for you
The ones _it_ has requested.
fidget··on Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler
No solution for persistent/statefull applications, which is a real disapointment, seeing as this is where I see orchestration systems currently breaking new ground and coming up with interesting solutions. The contraint systems also doesn't look too impressive; can I do the equiq of Marathon's GROUP_BY contraint (i.e. AZ GROUP_BY 2 -> ensure I have instances running on >=2 machines w/ different AZ values)?

Also no maintenance primitives, but that's just me being in love with Mesos.

fidget··on Datagram Garden IPv6 status report
Is there any reason that IPv6 in the UK seems Manchester based, while IPv4 is London based?
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