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andrewsomething

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About andrewsomething

API Engineering @ DigitalOcean

I'm andrewsomething many places on the internet including StackExchange and GitHub. Some places I'm known as simply asb like in Debian and on DigitalOcean.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/andrewsomething; my proof: https://keybase.io/andrewsomething/sigs/AjYri8fzpiLhAYbawDajj-eloo9fQ24T2HHoMPLWEmA ]

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    They've done a lot, but apparently it hasn't been particularly successful. Their new "Documentation" platform didn't really ever gain traction: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/quest…

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    > we're able to constantly test master You seemed to have missed this.

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    Comment #12115198

    A good non-technical explainer: https://medium.com/@nzdominic/what-is-httpoxy-65a33a8a1f4d#....

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    Comment #11716649

    If you're looking for a way to check out Horizon and don't already have RethinkDB up and running locally, we've put a One-Click app together over on DigitalOcean: https://www.digit…

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    Comment #11543817

    16.04 is available on DO now!

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    Comment #11530348

    Hi! If you have never applied a promo code to your DigitalOcean account in the past, this code will still work for you. It's really just meant to give new users a chance to try out…

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    Comment #11032141

    Sorry to hear that. That does sound incredibly frustrating. Send me an email at asb@digitalocean.com We can discuss how DO can support your hackerspace, and I can take a deeper loo…

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    Comment #11032108

    Sure thing. Expect an email in the morning.

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    Comment #11032104

    Hey! Guess I miss-typed a bit, and it's too late to fix. We have two separate teams, a Networking team and a SWE-Networking team. It seems we don't have a proper "network engineer"…

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    Comment #11031998

    Great response! I can totally understand the feeling. We do work with a number of other incubators. DO itself is an alumni of TechStars. We have some stuff in the works with 500 St…

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    Comment #11031797

    Storage is also an area we're working on heavily right now, and we should have some good news soon. We definitely recognize that there's a lot of demand for more storage without th…

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    Comment #11031746

    We're always looking for ways to help startups get up and running on our platform. If you're not a YC company, reach out to our customer success team. They can help you get started…

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    Comment #11031708

    Thanks! Storage and networking are both areas we're investing a lot of work into right now. Blob storage isn't the first on the roadmap on the storage side, but I'll definitely pas…

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    Comment #11031639

    We have a lot of interesting stuff coming up later this year around networking. Some of it will be behind the scenes, but it is going to open up a lot of new possibilities for user…

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    Comment #11031596

    Just to confirm, we use KVM across our fleet at DO.