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Re:We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:40AM (#36667156)
I've tried to use virtio-pmem + DAX for the page cache to not be duplicated between the guest and the host. In practice the RAM overhead of virtio-pmem is unacceptable and it doesn't support discard operations at all. So yes a better solution would be needed.
Re:We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:35AM (#36667086)
I think their usecase makes a lot of sense as their workloads consume a predefined amount of ram. As a customer you rent a VM with a specified amount of memory so fly.io does not care about reclaiming it from a running VM.
Not really, if you develop inside containers in k8s then you will have a hard time: - Installing something into the container - Run docker/podman/k8s etc...
Re:Ask HN: What do you self-host? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:02AM (#34708931)
For me it's generally k8s. I'm currently migrating most of my stuff to a new setup :) I want to give headscale a shot. I've used my k8s to run Gitlab CI jobs and some of my apps/toy projects.
Re:ChatGPT is not a reliable teacher on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:58AM (#34708856)
I think the real value of ChatGPT is rewriting existing text, essentially turning crappy writing into whatever you want.
Re:Change name of startup for international market? on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:48AM (#34653449)
Depends on your target audience, if your target is fluent in one specific language then using that language is a good idea.
Re:Ask HN: Which tools increased your productivity the most? on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:46AM (#34653437)
Isn't it problematic to work on it via ssh on high latency connections?
Re:Ask HN: Which tools increased your productivity the most? on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:41AM (#34653418)
Toggl. Generally having a feedback loop on what you spend your time is the perfect tool for self improvement.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage dev servers? on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:31PM (#34644580)
Can't you use NixOS for this stuff? I think it's the main selling point of NixOS that every developer has the same environment. You may also deploy those nix environments via terraform.