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Also, have you considered using i3 instances for their superior price per throughput/IOP? Obviously, you can't rely on EBS snapshot based backup/restore workflows on those instance…

Are Citus Cloud customers generally IOPS constrained rather than throughput constrained? You're also constrained by the EBS-optimized interconnect, right? http://docs.aws.amazon.co…

Thanks! I look forward to reading about implementation details. It does seem like documentation of Citus Cloud HA and disaster recovery behavior is a bit light, compared to e.g. - …

Does Citus (Cloud?) have features that offer better high availability and failover functionality than what RDS provides? Managed Patroni and packaged workflows for zero-downtime fa…

Thanks, this makes sense!

The software has to be distributed somehow, right? Probably over https? What makes curl more susceptible to MITM than apt-get/pip/gem/etc? I don't particularly like curl | sh eithe…

What's the difference between downloading and executing a binary, installing a package (apt-get, pip, gem, etc), and curl | sh which makes the later so bad?

If the script source is on github and isn't run under sudo, is there a meaningful difference between curl | sh and apt-get install from a PPA, gem/pip install, etc?

Will General Purpose (SSD) be an option for RDS?

If we assume stability, in what circumstances would PIOPS or Magnetic volumes be preferable to General Purpose? For example, workloads that use an average of < ~.4 IOP per GB per s…

The previous generation had a small instance (m1.small). There is no comparable offering in the current generation (at least, not yet). The smallest m3 instance is the m3.medium. Y…

From Jeff Barr's blog post ( http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ssd-backed-elastic-block... ): * A bucket is associated with each General Purpose (SSD) volume, and can hold up to …

Previously a 1TB, 4K PIOPS volume was $525/mo. With a 35% discount on PIOPS this now runs $385/mo, but you can also get 1TB, 3K PIOPS General Purpose volume for $100/mo. Pretty nic…

It looks like Amazon has released a third EBS volume type, and renamed "Standard" volumes to "Magnetic". General Purpose is currently the default type when launching "Create Volume…

I agree with the gist of the post, but there are some ways in which you can tip the scales in your favor: - Get an offer where you get your options up front and the company reserve…

Have you used any other cloud monitoring/metric/etc providers? If so, how do they compare to DataDog?

Yang's notes are awesome! I considered their strength a positive signal when he recruited me to Infer, a startup which he left MIT ABD to cofound ( https://www.infer.com/about.html…

It seems like there's vague consensus on first engineer equity. Are there any common rule-of-thumbs for Nth engineer (or Nth employee) equity?

Sadly, no. I almost missed the SHDH that we hosted a few weeks ago.

Palantir Tech is hiring for just about every position in the company (we're growing fast). The most YC-relevant positions are probably software engineers -- most of what we do is i…