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pwelchon Reliability: It’s not great

Ah my question was answered more or less. They're an edge case which makes sense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048318

pwelchon Reliability: It’s not great

Growing pains are never fun. It doesn't mention (at least that I read) if they're using HashiCorp Open Source or Enterprise. Open Source is great and I owe my career to it but they might be hitting the scale when the Enterprise features and support start to be worth the price.

I've only used Fly.io for a personal app but I think it's a great option so I hope they keep growing.

pwelchon mruby 3.2.0

The configuration management tool mitamae is another mruby project: https://github.com/itamae-kitchen/mitamae

pwelchon I wrote a short story about von Neumann probes

100% This series is so fun to read.

pwelchon YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers

Yara is an awesome tool

pwelchon Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

Agreed, any application regardless of language or framework can age poorly. I've seen some pretty solid "long running" Rails applications that were just maintained well.

pwelchon Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

Not sure what microservice architecture has to do with it. You can have microservices that are Rails apps. :)

pwelchon Keybase and Stellar Partner on XLM Airdrop Worth $118M

Their private encrypted git repos and file storage is pretty solid.

pwelchon Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

100%

pwelchon Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

Microsoft OneNote for some stuff.

Mostly Quiver (or Boostnote) with the files backed up to a remote git repo. Added benefit of being a format that is not locked in and can be parsed out later if required.

pwelchon Interrobang

I’ve done the same thing! It’s awesome.

pwelchon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

I have the same question but just to know what a "Blockchain Engineer" does.

pwelchon Using a logbook to improve your programming

I’ve been exploring keeping a logbook for awhile. Some apps I recommend: Quiver, Boostnote, and jrnl.sh

All of them have open data formats so you’re not locked in and can save everything in git which are requirements for me.

pwelchon Simple note taking from the command line

Yes! Jrnl is awesome and I've been using it for awhile now. Highly recommend it.

pwelchon Google must turn over foreign-stored emails pursuant to a warrant, court rules

Are there any good options for cloud services outside of the US?

pwelchon Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

That's interesting. I've used both and would rather use JIRA over FogBugz any day.

pwelchon Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

Yeah thought of that. Made sure it was on the latest version and rebooted. Still didn't work.

pwelchon Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

No device management policy. :/

pwelchon Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

I found a weird issue on a friends phone when I suggested they download it for iOS. It says "This item is no longer available". They were able to download other apps from the store. When emailing Signal support they said nothing was wrong on their end.

Still havent figured out why my friend cant download Signal from Apple App Store.

pwelchon Pebble's next step

This is sad to hear. It was a really cool product.

pwelchon Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS

We've actually had good luck with AWS Support and have a dedicated representative that is always there to push urgent issues through support.

pwelchon Ruby 3x3: Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the Future of Ruby Performance

Ha, I wish I could up vote you twice.

pwelchon .NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10

I agree but I'm mildly surprised when an upgrading OSX or Linux instead of a fresh install always works fine.

pwelchon Ask HN: What do you use for Log Management?

Used Papertrail at a previous company and it was great.

Using Graylog at my current job and it's working well so far.

pwelchon Decommissioning Otto

Yes!

TerraForm has been huge for us. Packer has been great. We plan on rolling out Vault fully and consul to our entire infrastructure.

The tools I listed above are essential along with Chef, ansible, and git are essential for our tools stack.

pwelchon Managing Apt Repos in S3 Using Lambda

This is an awesome write up.

pwelchon Ask HN: Best monitoring system?

Agree with this.

If you have money and no time: DataDog

If you don't mind putting in a little time: Sensu

Sensu is straightforward to deploy if you use Chef/Ansible/Puppet. It also supports running Nagios plugins which is pretty useful.

pwelchon A simple, fully featured command line note taking tool written in Rust

And Jrnl which is one I use on a daily basis. http://jrnl.sh

pwelchon Why You Should Try tmux Instead of screen

There's also tmate which makes it easy to share a tmux session over ssh.

Not sure if there is something similar for screen.