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Re:GitHub is once again down on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:27PM (#47510400)
Moved to self hosted crowci instead of actions.
Trust me as a committer it smokes aerospike and dragonflydb.

Dragonflydb also break Redis license big time.

Re:Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime on Thursday July 21, 2022 @04:34AM (#32177030)
No you just need regional PD
Re:Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:35PM (#32156007)
Belgium and Finland have better capacity than London/Zurich.
Re:Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:15PM (#32155769)
Probably better to point out to move to Finland (europe-north1) as it's only 18 degrees.
Re:Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:44PM (#32155299)
Summary: Cooling related failure in one of our buildings that hosts zone europe-west2-a for region europe-west2. The other zones are not impacted
You could live in Germany and get a Swiss G permit for cross border working.
Re:Hetzner Cloud – Data loss incident on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:17PM (#31016520)
Base images should be repeatable anyway using packer etc.
It's not about being webscale it's about being professional.
Exactly won't be long before his Stripe environment variables are leaked through the debug error message.
Also running on single VM in a GCP zone is a disaster waiting to happen.
Re:Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:58AM (#29807143)
Using https://hashids.org is sensible for mapping to external ID.
Re:Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @11:55AM (#28369602)
Just use multipass https://multipass.run and folder mount.
Re:MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:04PM (#28130518)
Did you not evaluate linstor?
Re:GraalVM at Facebook on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:49AM (#27784928)
Rust rewrites are already in progress.
Re:Bash_unit – bash unit testing framework on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:48AM (#26315249)
Re:Choosing Java instead of C++ for low-latency systems on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:47AM (#26225813)
A lot has changed since lmax first version. For this nowadays it would have been written in Rust.
Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:54PM (#25140772)
Of course it's not a single server.
Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:38PM (#25064342)
It's been done since 2014 when K8s came out. Move on please. Still I guess it's better than AKS.
Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:29PM (#25063783)
Why are people still posting these Pi homelabs they have been done to death.

I run microk8s on KVM running in Mesos with openvswitch and Mikrotik CRS/CCRs.

Re:Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s on Friday November 06, 2020 @08:43AM (#25007534)
Truenas plus HA microk8s inside KVM VMs running in Mesos for myself.
Most websites can't/shouldn't store the card number, they embed Stripe JavaScript that sends card number to Stripe and get a token id to use on the backend later on. Can't store CCV or number without passing PCI compliance.
Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:43PM (#22670160)
I don't understand why Facebook doesn't offer there developer machine provisioning to the outside world. They have the talent to build VPCs on top of SDN.
Re:Equinix is acquiring Packet on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @03:04PM (#22048693)
Google Cloud allows bring your own anycast ranges mapped to global load balancers.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019) on Thursday August 01, 2019 @02:55PM (#20587095)
10+ years with Java plus Google Cloud since 2011.

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