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It's not memory intensive at all - just CPU bound

I have a very cpu intensive application in Rust, that is able to use all cores given to it.

I am thinking about going for the Epyc 7502p with 32 cores but having a hard time knowing if the Threadripper counterpart with 32 cores would be better given its higher frequency.

Guess it is very hard to answer but which one would you go for? Will the threadripper perform much better?

I'm from Sweden and biked NY to SF a few years ago. During the two months it took I never locked my bike (didn't brought a lock at all). Just a related a anecdote ;)

Just switched to AWS from DO after 5 years. DO was working great, but needed a more managed solution (am very familiar with the sysadmin, but just wanted to reduce workload) so went with AWS Fargate and happy with it so far.

I think In 99% of the cases, the costs, work and effort by far outweighs possible benefits.

As the sole dev in my company, I have spent last few weeks to look at other solutions to DO as well. I can work it out fine as is, it's just that nowadays I am getting more and more security questionnaires sent by customers and it would be such a relief to just say that the security of the platform is managed by someone else.

Have been looking at beanstalk but no. Now its between app engine and heroku. Question on heroku: It feels a bit weird they not support hardware 2fa, doesn't it?

Do you have any other insight to give me on your transition?

I cycled from NY to SF 2015, with a detour to Chicago. I've done lots of bike touring in other parts of the world, but would say US is one of my top countries for bike touring!

I would say 99% of SUV owners do not need an SUV.

Oh, their DDoS protection was one of the reasons we were thinking about moving away from DO.

It is a public facing SaaS API which does not have much traffic in terms of requests, but would be catastrophic to be blackholed. So its that bad?

Regarding hardware failures- have never experienced any so far, but guess it's just a question of when then.

We now use a DigitalOceans managed database with 0 standby nodes, coupled with another instance running Django. It is working good.

We are however actually thinking about switching to a new dedicated server at another provider (Hetzner) where we are looking at having the Web server and the DB on the same server, however the new server will have hugely improved performance (which is sometimes needed), still at a reduced cost compared to the DigitalOcean setup.

The thing we are doubting is if having a managed db is worth it. The sell in is that everything is of course managed. But what does this mean in reality? Updating packages is easy, backups as well (to some extent), and we still do not use any standby nodes and doubt we will need any replication. So far we have never had the need to recover anything (about 5 years). Before we got the managed db we had it in the same machine (as we are now looking at going back to) and never had any issues.

Any input?

Yeah good question, maybe it feels overkill. I also found Gridsome which also looks very interesting

Thanks, had a look at Gridsome which is the vue equivalent- looks great

I tend to get jealous when I see people working with their hands, prefferably outside. Sometimes I even observe the guys cleaning the street and thinks, maybe its not that bad after all?

The times I have done such work (like construction) resulted in a much greater satisfaction and feeling in my body than after a day in front of the screen (even though I have been productive). Doing lots of running and gym but it does not generate the same feeling.

Have lately started to do something about it, maybe switch career totally.

Thanks, helps a lot. It is an unsolicited, however we pass all requirements.

Is it generally okay asking the company if there is any vendor behind the RFQ (will they really reveal this?)

I cycled through Africa, from Europe, with South Africa as destination ten years ago (took me 9 months). Fascinating continent.

Nice! Would also love if you provided a continent code (like "EU", "NA", ...)

Go out on a cycling tour, cross a continent(s) or just a small tour. You will not regret it.

Fantastic. I also believe we are slaves to the cars, in such a way that we have become blind to the fact how they destroy our societies and people.

Most people are so used to the cars that they find it hard we would be happier without them, like my dad who grown up in the 50's with the mindset that every man should have a car. Not to mention all the developing countries with a middle class who see it as a step towards happiness (can't blame them though).

The car ia a great invention, and I love to drive them. Our family does not own a car, but rather a few bikes including a cargo bike which we use to do the shopping including Ikea visits.

It makes me cry a bit of happiness every time I read about this kind of initiatives.

Reading this makes me feel there is still hope.

Cars have to some extent led us through part of the industrial revolution. However, it's my belief that cars, except from polluting the environment and destroying our cities - makes people unhappy and sad.

Visiting LA this summer, I knew I was in for a car heavy metropolis but this... I can't understand why people waste so much time of their precious life (usually alone which also greatly worsen the problem) - locked in a car.

Coming to the topic of the autonomous car revolution, which I frankly do not understand. Sometimes it feels like the ambition is to end up as the humans in WALL-E. What kind of life is that?

Ps. Coming from Europe, I crossed US by bicycle a few years ago, from NY to US. People say it's a country to be seen through a car, but I argue it's to be seen on a bike.