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iampims

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About iampims

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    Comment #47412823

    I’ve started pair programming with Claude and it’s been pretty fun. We make a plan together, I type the code and Claude reviews it. Then we switch.

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    Comment #44214841

    You should write something about this…

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    Comment #44107133

    Great idea, poor naming. If you’re aiming for a standard of sorts, tying it to a specific software by reusing its name feels counter productive. “Ducklake DuckDB extension” really …

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    Comment #44072780

    but that'd be real money, not the Monopoly money they used to buy Ive/Windsurf...

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    Comment #44072756

    Not sure I would qualify sharding a DB that get 1M qps as straight forward. I agree with you that it seems that an org would be a natural sharding key, but we know that at this sca…

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    Comment #43297612

    I just wish Meta would open source Scuba.

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    Comment #42336065

    lossy and simpler. IME, I've found sampling simpler to reason about, and with the sampling rate part of the message, deriving metrics from logs works pretty well. The example in th…

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    Comment #42335840

    Or sampling :)

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    Comment #41949035

    Some serious engineering here. Kudos!

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    Comment #41727106

    At a certain scale, exact computations (p50 for instance) become impractical. I’ve had great luck switching to approximate calculations with guaranteed error bounds. An approachabl…

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    Comment #41636913

    It'll work. Clickhouse has even experimental support for storing prometheus metrics natively. A big missing piece is alerting.

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    Comment #41445734

    Heroku is still around… …otherwise you can try Render, Fly.io, Google Cloud Run, Railway, etc.

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    Comment #41341512

    Nice work. The "about" link at the bottom of the home page links to https://hot.page/manifesto which is 404 Not Found.

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    Comment #40945062

    You mean this? A Docker registry backed by Workers and R2. https://github.com/cloudflare/serverless-registry

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    Comment #40875716

    If the LB is for HTTP traffic, check out Cloudflare’s offering.

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    Comment #40701906

    Rook would suit your problem space very well.

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    Comment #40318838

    July 1st can’t come soon enough.

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    Comment #40258064

    The best thing about PHP: shared nothing architecture. The worst thing about PHP: shared nothing architecture. It works extremely well until it doesn’t really scale anymore.

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    Comment #40209927

    AWS rakes in multi billion dollars in profit every year. They can definitely eat the costs of unauthorized requests to s3 buckets.

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    Comment #39975617

    It’s no different than running EKS in Multi-AZ configuration, except for the cross-az egress fees…

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    Comment #39892948

    Check out these models: https://replicate.com/collections/image-restoration Most of them can be run locally, but I’d recommend testing them with replicate before investing in under…

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    Comment #39323365

    They can’t because value is not exported. They must use the NewUsername function, which forces the validation. In my opinion, this pattern breaks when the validation must return an…

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    Comment #39079834

    fwiw Apple entered and then exited the server space a while ago.

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    Comment #38730030

    Roads safe for cycling is half the battle. The other half is around zoning and mixing residential with businesses.

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    Comment #38458692

    Most interesting article I've read this week. Excellent write-up.