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One main problem that we observed was that big parts of their IAM / auth setup was overloaded / down which led to all kinds of cascading problems. It sounds as if Dynamo was report…

It's a bit funny that they say "most service operations are succeeding normally now" when, in fact, you cannot yet launch or terminate new EC2 instance, which is basically the defi…

The max-unused percentage feature is well worth it to 80/20 the prune process and only prune the data which is easiest to prune away (i.e. not try to remove small files big packs b…

Isn't he dismissing culture with his rant? Culture as the currently common way to do and describe things? He seems to imply that there could be an easier, more straight-forward way…

That's implication not equation.

Actually, that the malware contained a root exploit is fixable sooner or later. The next insight will be, that even if the sandbox had worked, this type of attack still is possible…

The downside is that a bunch of processes started from one TTY doesn't get as much CPU as before. It basically shifts the scheduling granularity a level higher from processes to (i…

What's the reasoning for your reproduction of the complete text here? With all possibly valid reasoning in this particular case, there should be high barriers for just copying some…

Often, manual allocation is even slower. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2552

An interesting side note here is that the coming Unity will be based upon compiz, instead of relying on mutter. Canonical apparently hired the lead developer of compiz: http://smsp…

"and before long you have a system that demonstrates rare flashes of brilliance but in practice is so unpredictable and opaque you can't use it" _That_ actually seems to resemble h…

Yeah, it seems it does, quite impressive!

I think that's a valid point. For long years mostly the live performance of media was paid for. Then with the manifestation of media as data, the guys who had the machines to recor…

No news, but still worth pointing to... (e.g. http://blowery.org/2008/04/08/opendns-is-proxying-google/ )