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If I could have my time again I'd focus on enablement of the broader engineering group through an incident management process, readiness exercises, some aggregate incident analyses for the org to learn from and leaning into observability. Infrastructure is kind of a solved problem for common use cases today, just requires the expertise. With our ducks in a row I'd next have look to a GRC function for the compliance b…
Would be interested to know what your hosting bill was like? We recently moved everything in-house and started hosting our own servers. Having physical access to the machine (and the network HW) pretty much eliminated all of our dev ops (1). We expected the HW to fail often and such, but in 2 years the only maintenance we had to do was add more disks to the RAID array and resize the partition a few times. Even though…
This is a great point. Hyper focus on optimizing micro-containers is costly and sucks up a lot of time. You can still deploy like this in the cloud though. On AWS make a three-year reservation of a c6a.32xlarge to get 128 vCPU for $16k annually. Hetzner is cheaper, 80 vCPU for about €2,506 annually.
Well I do not feel any of the 3 advice he gives, good advice. First the longer you stay in heroku ,the most complex is it to exit it the time you really need it and the less flexible you are in the time being. Second, wish he had pay for a pit team sooner, but could this money better used investing in marketing or sales like he probably did ? The guy has obviously succeeded as a business owner, would it still be the…
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Or you could use sqlite until you need postgres. I have to admit I reach for postgres immediately when in many cases sqlite would have served me just as well.
SQLite seems to be gaining popularity with even larger projects which is surprising to me. As I see it, the big value prop of SQLite is that it runs in-process which, for a webapp, is almost nil? Other than that, it's not like queries are any simpler and the "simple" type system is, in my opinion, not a feature. I get that some might disagree with that. Is there some other reason why you would prefer it?
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vercel is great
How’s rails deployment experience with Vercel?
Since that's generic enough to also see vercel as a heroku alternative, be it for node and not rails
> But the worst Digital Ocean incident we ever had was when they turned all our droplets off all at once. The credit card entered into the account had expired, there was no backup card, and the contact email on the account went to a shared inbox that was not monitored. So for probably a month we were getting and ignoring billing alerts, until we really paid attention when everything was offline and not responding to…
Not exactly. Some countries have laws in place that prevent a provider from removing service due to non-payment to a business. Instead they must follow a process, including physical paper notices, before removing service. DO should have done something like that as well, just cutting off service because you sent some emails is kinda shitty.
What is this? Germany?
Would be interested to know what your hosting bill was like? We recently moved everything in-house and started hosting our own servers. Having physical access to the machine (and the network HW) pretty much eliminated all of our dev ops (1). We expected the HW to fail often and such, but in 2 years the only maintenance we had to do was add more disks to the RAID array and resize the partition a few times. Even though…
It's around 150k USD/month at the moment. Would love to learn more about your setup. Email me if you're interested in chatting. Email in my profile.
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Or you could use sqlite until you need postgres. I have to admit I reach for postgres immediately when in many cases sqlite would have served me just as well.
SQLite seems to be gaining popularity with even larger projects which is surprising to me. As I see it, the big value prop of SQLite is that it runs in-process which, for a webapp, is almost nil? Other than that, it's not like queries are any simpler and the "simple" type system is, in my opinion, not a feature. I get that some might disagree with that. Is there some other reason why you would prefer it?
Only one file to backup or deploy is the biggest advantage of sqlite IMO.
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SQLite seems to be gaining popularity with even larger projects which is surprising to me. As I see it, the big value prop of SQLite is that it runs in-process which, for a webapp, is almost nil? Other than that, it's not like queries are any simpler and the "simple" type system is, in my opinion, not a feature. I get that some might disagree with that. Is there some other reason why you would prefer it?
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I'm looking at the ansible playbooks to setup my favourite beefy baremetal Hetzner server (128GB ram, Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core, 450Gb fast NVME SSD, 3.5TB x2 NVME SSDs, 155€/month): - Install Debian 11 while booted in rescue mode. - Setup the root file system encryption using cryptsetup and dropbear (to enter the key during the boot through SSH). Involves chroot and some fun commands. - Setup ZFS encrypted mirror filesy…
Why are you running cluster orchestration software on a single machine?