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Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

#31

Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy. Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a different containment approach. But Python is a complex language to support - you need to support WSGI, to support dynamic loading (for C extensions), a reasonably performant file system (Python calls `stat` about a billion times before actual…

What?

Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

#32

Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy. Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a different containment approach. But Python is a complex language to support - you need to support WSGI, to support dynamic loading (for C extensions), a reasonably performant file system (Python calls `stat` about a billion times before actual…

Why though?

Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

#38
post #14

great news! the business is delighted by the scalability and resilience demonstrated by this proof-of-concept and alignment with cloud-native strategy. the business has decided to use this as the platform to deliver the new "hello $customer_firstname $customer_lastname" product to production. since we'll be executing brainfuck programs containing customer PII, the design may need a few standard technical enhancements…

Somebody pay this person more money to not quit.

Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

#39

Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy. Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a different containment approach. But Python is a complex language to support - you need to support WSGI, to support dynamic loading (for C extensions), a reasonably performant file system (Python calls `stat` about a billion times before actual…

Aw darn! Around that time, I was at Google, and there was a thread on eng-misc (or possibly eng-misc-mtv; it's been lost to the sands of time) with people contributing programs that would flip a virtual coin 50 times and output the sequence of heads and tails. I contributed one in BF because I had some spare time waiting for a deploy job, and I've been joking since that I've "written BF code professionally".

And now you tell me that that could have been for real. :-(

Re: Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

#40
post #6

So he is running clusters of brainf#ck machines in the cloud? I think this can be legitimately called a Clusterf#ck.

If this isn't a thing already it should be.

HR will make them rename it to something like HiveMind XD

Google has a testing library called Karma that used to be called Testacular...

https://github.com/vojtajina/testacular

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