tbh

Yep, agreed! Thanks for sharing that, nice point. Most of the work we do as developers isn't the sort of John Carmack's Magic Numbers sort of wizardry, so looking for more of the same sort of dev skill can be counterproductive as you've found.

Nice people are where it's at. After all, we've gotta work together, and someone will always be able to learn the tech...

Hosted Graphite - Dublin, Ireland

We're looking for an ops and python automation engineer to help us work on scaling, reliability and automating ops tasks. We work with linux, python, riak, redis, serf, puppet, git and IRC.

We're a small team of 7 that is growing quickly and funded entirely by real customers who like us because we solve a real problem.

Full job description: https://hosted-graphite.clinch.io/jobs/ops-python-automation...

The Arrested Development reference in the footer makes me wonder if the name ought to be Annyong instead.

What's the point if the user doesn't control the keys?

If the data and the keys are both with Amazon, is this anything other than a ticky box for the marketing dept?

Agreed! I'm recommending it to anyone uncomfortable with the SMS/Hangouts merge.

Seconding this, switched to TextSecure when they combined SMS and Hangouts. It is an excellent SMS app replacement. The crypto doesn't get in your way, even when almost none of your contacts also use it.

I'm finding voip.ms to be pretty good, no major issues in over a year of using them. It's a power user tool, so it's not quite as slick as Voice was.

I ported my old Voice number to voip.ms too.

I suggest that you apply to companies directly, with a cover letter tailored for each company/job, and avoid these generic CV-mangling systems.

Everyone involved in that needs to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software and get comfortable with the idea of pulling that plug. It'll help in the long run.

Thanks. Yes, for a demo or contributing doing it locally is a good idea. :) Nice set of instructions, it's a bit of a complex beast to install.

If you're installing it on a laptop just to play with it, perhaps https://www.hostedgraphite.com might be useful. The 14 day trial means you can fool around and dump it for self-hosted at the end of it. :)

(My company)

http://www.hostedgraphite.com - exactly what it sounds like.

(For those who don't know what Graphite is, it's a popular open source tool for recording and graphing metrics, typically server and app performance stuff)

Hetzner is good, the hardware is (mostly) good, the provisioning is fast, the support responses are fast but they follow scripts very closely. The biggest problem is that their network is terrible. We typically lose contact (50% packet loss, 100ms latency) with a machine for 5-10 minutes every day. Different (groups of) machines, different times of the day and night. Every time, Hetzner claim it was an "attack".

I haven't measured it, but they're probably within the 99% availability (allows for 1.68 hours/week downtime) they advertise for any one machine.

Maybe my expectations are too high. :)

Excellent guide. We (at http://www.hostedgraphite.com) will be pointing new users towards it and I'm sure many will benefit. Thanks!

Thanks for the replies! (rescrv and emin_gun_sirer)

I could have been more specific, I meant that I hope other projects do build upon your work. :)

Pleased to see repeated references to Hyperdex on HN, hoping it continues to grow and mature.

Sounds great, and I'm hoping other databases that use LevelDB can benefit from this work too.

Of course not, but regardless of who in the company said it, the official support response was as quoted. Not exactly encouraging!

Hetzner provide a lot of physical machines too, I believe this is what the other poster was talking about.

Considering https://twitter.com/omgtbh/status/337567604887658496 I can't say I'm surprised...

(tweet text reproduced here: "I asked Hetzner if they plan to support 2 factor auth & was told that they already do - they require a username and a password. Seriously.")

DNS resolution also blocks, and PHP doesn't appear to have a plugin for async DNS resolution.

Thanks Patrick!

Clickable link: https://www.hostedgraphite.com

(I'm one of the cofounders)

It's a little trickier to do that because of authentication concerns, but we're looking into it.

Both automatic correlation and alerting are absolutely on the roadmap. We're just getting started. :)

I hid the about link for now, we'll bring it back later.

Thanks for the comments, we'll work through those. Much appreciated!

Good point! That has been fixed. :)

The metric limit isn't on the front page yet, but you can see it per-plan on the plan choosing page: http://www.hostedgraphite.com/pick_plan/

There is a limit on metrics/sec, currently 50/sec, but we're trying to keep that limit high enough that people don't need to worry about it. We expect that most people won't hit the API directly and will use statsd instead.

That's right, sorry! Fixing that broken link shortly...