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ibspoofon Toyota Prius on LA Craigslist Has a Catalytic Converter Cage Like a Prison

I installed the cat shield when it came out. Turns out there are 6 versions now, mine was version 1... Converter was stolen from my Prius in my front yard right around the cat shield.

Based on the video it did nothing to slow them down.

ibspoofon Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API

RIP https://heyjackass.com/

ibspoofon Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale

When my team agreed to use Prometheus from the client side we looked at Thanos, Cortex, and M3DB, but none of them gave us the flexibility and comfort of adoption for a small team providing a service to 10s of internal groups. We have many private internal DCs and needed metrics to be stored in the cloud, pulling data to the cloud seemed awkward and required access rights we couldn't get.

We ended up using Postgres 10 w/ TimeScaleDB and their Prometheus plugin with a simple emulated push gateway that converts a prom formatted http post to a postgres batch insert. Postgres is 3 nodes monitored with Patroni.

Working great for us and handling 1000+ metrics a second with ease and we get SQL for both real-time metrics for monitoring and analytics for business needs. We are using about 10-15% of our systems giving us room to grow.

ibspoofon Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with manoeuvre he invented

He's also kinda a crackpot: http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/09/22/the-strange-story-of-hen...