Cloud

Disclaimer I am not a significant member of the Redis community. I have not used Redis on a regular basis. I’ve discussed Redis more in interviews than during regular work. My few work encounters with Redis have been using Elasticache. These facts would discourage me and should discourage you from having me as your next redis admin. Despite all of that — I have been part of the free software and open source communities for many years. With all of the tumult around licensing with prominent open source companies in recent years I am well positioned to talk about companies and their relationships to their communities. ...

Overview Slack and other services include a Scheduled Send feature which allows you to send a message at some point in the future, without further effort on your part. Initially Slack limited this feature to channels, but recently it was also expanded to work in threads. So now seems like a good time to consider why you might want to take advantage of this feature. Generally we’re happy to send our Slack messages in real time and we hope for an answer within moments. The asynchronous nature of Slack lends itself to sending messages regardless of what time of day it may be for any of the parties involved. But there are occasions when asynchronous has downsides and for those times, Scheduled Send is your friend. ...

Eventually this blog post is going to work around to being a review of “Microservices Pros and Cons” by Curtis Poe. It is going to meander a bit before it gets to the review, but I haven’t found a way to leave out this “preamble”. In some sense it is beside the point, but in other senses it is the whole point. YMMV. Presumption of bias I would guess that most innocent bystanders reading a title like “Pros and Cons” would assume that the author intended to present a balanced view of the topic at hand. Having been in the computer business for the last thirty years I presume every author has some ax to grind. ...

@+Cloudflare: Thanks for keeping up the good fight. Links Cloudflare’s Transparency Report for Second Half 2016 and an Additional Disclosure for 2013 Shared with: Public, Cloudflare

Amazon today announced a new product called simply Product that will provide a consistent API for them to create new products at the whim of product managers without requiring any technical assistance or consistency with the laws of physics. With just a few clicks the dollars start pouring in. The fees for this can only be discussed under nondisclosure after you give them copies of recent banks statements, but don’t let that bother you. It didn’t concern the computer press which faithfully reprinted their press release for Product as a real article lauding Amazon as the geniuses behind the cloud. [click] ...

AWS continues to lead the industry in demonstrating that selling snake oil with conferences and tech lofts is the way to make big bucks. Links Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS Shared with: Public

Hey +Akamai Technologies: no comment leaves everyone to jump to their own conclusions. My conclusion is that you have lost your integrity. Since I value my integrity and my vendor’s reliability in trying times I won’t be recommending your services to anyone any longer. Links Akamai kicked journalist Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after he was hit by a ‘record’ cyberattack briankrebs on Twitter: “Before everyone beats up on Akamai/Prolexic too much, they were providing me service pro bono. So, as I said, I don’t fault them at all.” Shared with: Public, Akamai Technologies ...

distributed.net has been down for a week. :-( I hope they can put the pieces back together soon. Links distributed.net : staff blogs – 2015 – July – 10 Shared with: Public

These guys moved to real hardware, it cost them half as much as AWS, and it was better in almost every way. Why is the cloud so popular? Is it time for Netflix to publish another AWS love story? Links How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware - High Scalability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9212467 Shared with: Public Comments Christopher Hicks - 2015-03-16T18:55:38Z good comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9212467 Peter Hamilton - 2015-03-17T02:33:36Z ...

OGR-28 is plugging along. Links : staff blogs – 2015 – February – 27 Shared with: Public