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kondro

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About kondro

Software developer interested in everything!

See my blog at http://www.wayne-robinson.com

Twitter: @kondro

Xeroizer - ruby library for Xero accounting system http://waynerobinson.github.com/xeroizer

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    Comment #46226845

    Oil-based ballpoint inks tend to last a really long time, especially if sealed.

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    Comment #46181190

    People that care about the time it takes to boil water just have an instant hot water boiler on (or under) their bench.

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    Comment #46125186

    On price, you could definitely do better than $8/million steps, $0.25/GB written and $0.15/GB-month for state storage, but if you were designing something generic on S3/DynamoDB (s…

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    Comment #46125080

    This basically is just a an application with steps that are checkpointed when they progress in a shared database (that's abstracted away from you). It's considerably simpler, less …

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    Comment #46104849

    Still $0.20/million requests, but all Lambda functions run on provisioned EC2 instances (taking into account savings plans & reservations) with a 15% premium. You can dial up/down …

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    Comment #46057911

    You might need to increase your connection timeout to at least 172800 seconds.

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    Comment #46000034

    Running your own AuthN/AuthZ with an off-the-shelf OSS is very straight-forward (as a SaaS product at least) and isn't any more burdensome from a security perspective than what you…

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    Comment #45975357

    One feature failing like this should probably log the error and fail closed. It shouldn't take down everything else in your big proxy that sits in front of your entire business.

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    Comment #45960152

    While there appears to be some us-east-1 SPoF for Route 53 updates (as shown recently), the actual health checks themselves occur in up to 8 different regions [1] with an 18%[2] ag…

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    Comment #45819756

    Thunderbolt 5 supports up to 120Gbps one-way.

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    Comment #45665209

    Sorry, 158: https://baxtel.com/data-center/aws-us-east-n-virginia

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    Comment #45663175

    us-east-1 is unimaginably large. The last public info I saw said it had 159 datacenters. I wouldn't be surprised if many millions of accounts are primarily located there. While thi…

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    Comment #45663145

    Enterprise support agreements are organization-wide. Although, you can gamify Business support (which is priced as a percentage of your bill) to not include things like your CloudT…

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    Comment #45651939

    I was using browser-based auth via Google.

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    Comment #45649321

    100ms isn’t going to make a difference to email-based OTP. Also, who’s using email-based OTP?

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    Comment #45647042

    Route53 was still resolving DNS entries just fine. But it looked like someone/something removed the entries for DynamoDB.

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    Comment #45646698

    The most recent public count of datacenters for AWS in us-east-1 is 159. I suspect that’s even an unwieldy number for NSA to spy on.

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    Comment #45646579

    Sure it was, you just needed to login to the console via a different regional endpoint. No problems accessing systems from ap-southeast-2 for us during this entire event, just coul…

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    Comment #45646537

    One of those still isn’t us-east-1 though and email isn’t latency-bound.

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    Comment #45642039

    I can authenticate my devices just fine.

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    Comment #45641610

    That just says the homepage and knowledge base are down and that admin access specifically isn’t effected.

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    Comment #45641259

    This link works fine from Australia for me.

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    Comment #45598419

    That doesn’t make much sense to me, there are literally billions of phones that people are using all the time. Apple has over 2.3 billion active devices of which a small percentage…