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The banks have nothing to do with the cost of commercial rent around old street roundabout and the shoreditch triangle. It's expensive because all the silly startups now think they…

Writing code/recipes/etc for chef/ansible/puppet is no different to writing code for an application. Just because you think you have dictated (in code) that things should be a cert…

nagios is awful :-), active checks are ultimately a dead end. Heartbeat style stuff is where it's at. You should definately check out sensu and riemann, (or hevean forbid if you re…

"mission critical"...

because PHP is "slow" and c is "fast", just about anything thats written in PHP such as FastCGI parser would be daftly slow compared to a counterpart written in c or c++. Most peop…

You could (and many) do the same thing with git.

Hadoop cluster of of GPU + SSD'd up machines is not going to be cheap.... (but would be fun)

Why is your logging library handling log rotation? Also, not everyone logs to disk straight from process or at all.

I know microbenchmarks are generally daft and horribly misapplied, but it might be worth showing/measuring the difference between using built-in procedural methods and your OO ones…

They can (and often are), but some of the drones are capable of completely computer controlled take off and landing. I remember seeing somewhere that the human drone pilots caused …

Why shouldn't a 'devops' company complain about dependency? It's their domain completely. Treating anything as a "fact of life" is not going to make the problem go away... And what…

Just because you have tools ease dealing with dependencies, it does not mean that those dependencies and the cost of dealing with them has gone away. Easier to not have the problem…

only 30 mins of data retention... even AWS gives you 2 weeks at 5min resolution for free (albeit only stuff the hypervisor can measure because they don't run an agent, so no RAM et…

It should probably be noted that: a) you don't have use node's built in HTTP server (yeah, I know, nearly everyone will), you are more thn free to write your own or use one from it…

well, they do give a million free push messages a month to start with which slightly skews it. "1 Million FREE Push messages/month. $0.001 per additional Push message"[1] [1] https…

I wonder how long till AWS provides some form of realtime websocket/whatever connection service. (I admit it will be some time before things are stable enough to make it sensible f…

And this is why he has done this and you haven't :-p Though seriously, when was HN ever about health and safety?

Errmmmm don't think anyone is offended by the word blitz, or ever has been. It's a pretty common term over here (UK) to describe a period of intense activity of any kind. Everyone …

Why not just plant lots of explosive devices WITH a trigger mechanism... make the numbers game work for you :-)

Pedant time! ssh is just one of many transports that git can use.

If anyone has ever bothered looking at any Netflix talks / slideshares [1] about APIs, they would have surely seen the various graphs detailing how their API usage started and grew…

This is fairly key. Alot of people think in a home-centric fashion when you mention remote work and mis the crux of remote work, that you are in fact working remotely with regards …

Define slow? Which particular aspect?