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Fun article, the phenomenon is interesting to see in practice, I've seen it regularly with newer instance types as it can take time for people to add them to their configurations. …

> Well I can only guess so much of the underlying egress internet routing of AWS. > At worst, if no explicit region is specified, it will reach the global aws endpoint through inte…

Intercom is pretty similar. We use EC2 hosts and no containers (other than for development/test environments and some niche third-party software that is distributed as Docker conta…

> Under the EU Internet Forum, the Commission has launched an expert process with industry to map and preliminarily assess, by the end of 2020, possible technical solutions to dete…

On one hand, this type of service merely solves business intent with unfriendly or un-automatable interfaces. Why should this exist and be so successful? On the other, I guess it's…

It looks like some sort of dispute or contractual issue between Notion and and the .so registry, or a complete messup by the registry. From a whois of notion.so: Updated Date: 2021…

It looks like some sort of dispute or contractual issue between Notion and and the .so registry, or a complete messup by the registry. From a whois of notion.so: Updated Date: 2021…

I miss #wtf. I hope it lives on in Slack.

This is a response to this AWS Lambda launch, over a year later: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-for-aws-lambda-pred...

Segment's blog posts on cost optimisation have plenty of detail and tips on this topic: https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/ https://segment.com/blog/spotting-a…

You are forgetting to price in some minor features that Aurora provides: - Aurora's storage is spread across three availability zones. - Backups. - Automatic failover. - No need to…

It's clearly missing storing data uuencoded in Route53 TXT records.

Letsrun is unfortunately a very toxic forum, but also has loads of knowledgeable folks. It's like reading a wikipedia article with commentary from 4chan on the side.