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steelaz··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
This incident made me look at the SLAs we have with GitHub, since our company is on the Enterprise plan. Interestingly, it seems that only failed GHA invocations are counted towards an SLA breach. We informed engineering to stop using GHA while the incident was ongoing, but it seems what we should have done was to hammer them without remorse to get the whole incident period (10+ hours) counted towards an SLA breach. What a scummy SLA design.
steelaz··on Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers
Threw me off at first as well. I was thinking of tasks per month. But this seems to be just pay as you go top-ups. Makes sense from a freelancer perspective. If I have work, I top-up my account. If there is none, I don't feel pressure like from all the other monthly subscriptions.
steelaz··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
A map of Ironman events - https://www.tricutlets.com
steelaz··on Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility
To be fair to AWS, they announced the deprecation of MySQL 5.7 in January 2021, and many emails warned of this change throughout 2024.
steelaz··on SMS traffic pumping fraud
Couldn't agree more. Twilio has been profiting from these scammers for years. We had several calls with our account manager and "fraud expert", and the answer was always the same - migrate to Twilio Authy. The problem is that with Twilio Authy you are basically paying the same amount, it's just that the cut or "protection fee" is not going directly to scammers, but to Twilio.

The last time we talked to them, they bragged about how good their algorithm to detect fraud is and that we should take advantage of it by onboarding to Authy. I asked them why they just don't offer it to all customers, since their platform is enabling scammers. And the manager said, I'm paraphrasing here, "well, we are for profit company".

steelaz··on SMS traffic pumping fraud
Happened to us as well a while back. We tracked originating IPs to the same telco that was sending SMS to their own numbers through our platform. I couldn't believe it.
steelaz··on GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations
https://www.githubstatus.com/history seems to show incidents in the last 3 months:

* March - 20 incidents

* April - 12 incidents

* May - 4 incidents (so far)

steelaz··on Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
"IAM Roles Anywhere" was announced just a couple of weeks ago. It might be applicable to your case.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/aws-ident...

steelaz··on Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
We got rid of all IAM users used by applications and moved to role-based access. Nowhere in the application do you need to enter AWS credentials. AWS SDK will attempt to discover short-lived credentials for you and will assume the role specified at the infrastructure layer, e.g. in a task definition.
steelaz··on What Drop-In API Observability Looks Like, Pre-Launch and Post-Launch
Yes, but even in your example, that's 20% of resources going to the sidecar. Not to mention sizing correctly multiple containers in a single task gets complicated.
steelaz··on What Drop-In API Observability Looks Like, Pre-Launch and Post-Launch
This is cool product, but but I don't undersatand this statement:

"Importantly, Akita did not impact processing loss or extra costs inside AWS, a main concern at our company stage."

Author specifically talks about AWS Fargate and links to Akita docs where it says in AWS Fargate setup, Akita agent should run as a side car in each container you deploy. How can that not bring significant amount of extra compute cost?

steelaz··on How to Run Wordpress on AWS
We run very similar scaffolding to host different workloads, except we run it on ECS, so you could complicate reference diagram even further.

In reality, when we had to add Wordpress to our workloads, there was nothing special we had to do except for introducing EFS. All our workloads before that didn't require keeping state on a file level.

And just like that we had a scalable/HA Wordpress setup with pretty decent performance.

steelaz··on Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
AWS has Aurora Serverless (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/) for that purpose with MySQL and Postgres compatible engines. But I haven't heard anyone using it for side projects yet.
steelaz··on China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
If true, what does that mean to AWS regions in China?
steelaz··on Idempotent consumer pattern – A piece of the eventual consistency puzzle
I found these two articles on idempotency very well written:

https://brandur.org/http-transactions https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys

steelaz··on Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
I think the only option here would be to change our name servers at registrar level to point to AWS and recreate all DNS records there, but then you have to deal with name server propagation.
steelaz··on Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
Great, now we can't even disable HTTP proxy to allow traffic directly to AWS :/
steelaz··on Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare
Disabling HTTP proxy and leaving "DNS only" option in CloudFlare DNS settings solved the problem for us.
steelaz··on Paris city centre goes car-free for a day
Image of my helmet after the crash [1]. Hospital cleared me the same day, with couple stitches. Surgeon said if not for helmet I would be gone.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/QBg0b0V.jpg

steelaz··on New EBS volume type: General Purpose (SSD)
To add to the question, what happens with CloudFormation setup, where template doesn't specify EBS volume type. Will new instances use gp2 as default?
steelaz··on Optimizely Raises $57 Million
You can have Experiments running on client side (JS) without redirect to different versions of the page, but setup process is... strange to say the least - https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/experiment...

Still, after setting it up it worked just fine for us.

steelaz··on Rick Perry: The Pros Of Tesla Selling Direct To Customers Outweigh The Cons
Is it still a bribe if benefit is for the state and not an individual?
steelaz··on Tmux 1.9 released
How?
steelaz··on Put.io
A lot of people mention ability to almost instantly stream the movie you want, but you can already do that using torrents. It's called sequential downloading. After buffering a few % of the whole torrent, you can start watching it with VLC (not sure if other players support it).
steelaz··on NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease
According to wikipedia, Tony Stark made his first appearance in comic books in 1963, 8 years before Elon Musk was born.
steelaz··on PhpMyAdmin Turns 15
If it's not your first time touching database, I would recommend Adminer (http://www.adminer.org/). No installation, single PHP file.
steelaz··on Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth
What about countries that get very little sunshine through winter season, scandinavian countries for example?
steelaz··on This $200 3D printed bot can crack your phone's PIN in 20 hours
It seems after loosing your phone you have a few hours to disable access to your email account.
steelaz··on Introducing the new compose in Gmail
Clicking on recipients line reveals CC, Bcc and From.
steelaz··on Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It
Most websites that are adding social login buttons also keep their own registration/authentication setup. I think by adding social login buttons you also increase attack surface on your website, no matter how good third party security is.
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