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Re: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: stateful experiments on AWS Lambda

Toby DiPasquale — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 21:45:31 -0000

Great article! Love the ingenuity of attempting this on top of Lambda. One small nit: 0.00000040 * 2880 * 30 * N = 0.03456N, not 0.00115N.

Re: How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images

Toby DiPasquale — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:36:48 -0000

Excellent! Congratulations and thanks so much :)

Re: Readings in distributed systems

Toby DiPasquale — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:37:54 -0000

Link to Statis paper is a 404

Re: How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lisp

Toby DiPasquale — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:47:07 -0000

Actually, Matz has said on several occasions that he took the idea of blocks from a language called CLU http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: What Killed the Linux Desktop

Toby DiPasquale — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:06:00 -0000

So, I agree with you that these are problems, but why then was FreeBSD not more popular on the desktop since it suffered from none of these?

Re: How To Write Good Log Messages

Toby DiPasquale — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:49:36 -0000

Great stuff. One thing I would add is to make sure multiline log messages (e.g. backtraces) are easily greppable by using a scheme like DropWizard uses (http://dropwizard.codahale.... Extremely handy for pulling out backtraces when things go wonky.

Re: InnoDB tweaking on AWS RDS for write-heavy apps

Toby DiPasquale — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:57:37 -0000

Good stuff! Congrats on the successful release, too!

Re: Elad Blog: Never, Ever Compromise: Hiring For Culture Fit

Toby DiPasquale — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:00:59 -0000

So, "how to build a cult", then?

Re: How to beat the CAP theorem - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet

Toby DiPasquale — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:48:26 -0000

No, it appears that he's reinvented Event Sourcing without knowing about it.

Re: http://blog.pud.com/post/9582597828

Toby DiPasquale — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:44:31 -0000

Whatever works for you, brotha. However, surely this is not the infrastructure that adBrite runs on? The server reports itself to be Apache...

Re: My Idea of the Perfect Coffee Shop

Toby DiPasquale — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:03:34 -0000

What you're describing isn't a coffee shop. Its a Kinko's with baristas ;-)

Re: http://evilmartini.com/post/8021797094

Toby DiPasquale — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:10:20 -0000

If you'd just have typed "java -version" on the command-line, it would have popped up a dialog asking you if you wanted to reinstall Java. That's all I had to do to restore it upon upgrade to Lion.

Re: Brizzled: Trademark Scams

Toby DiPasquale — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:45:39 -0000

Wow. I did many years in anti-spam and I still can't believe shit like this works on people. *sigh*

Re: Brizzled: Rapture Math

Toby DiPasquale — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:20:35 -0000

Well said, my friend.

Re: http://cbcg.net/2007/10/27/evidence-based-scheduling.html

Toby DiPasquale — Sat, 14 May 2011 09:26:05 -0000

I don't, sorry. FogBugz has the feature built-in, however, if you are using that. If not, it shouldn't be too hard to whip something up in R if you're familiar with that and have a suitable export of your task completion stats.

Re: Starting a Company

Toby DiPasquale — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:42:21 -0000

Once you guys get the magical unicorn logo, the money will come pouring in! ;-)

Re: Cassandra: Tuning Garbage Collection

Toby DiPasquale — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:25:29 -0000

“Garbage Collection Tuning in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine”: http://developers.sun.com/l...

Re: Membase Server Beta 3 Release

Toby DiPasquale — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:37:37 -0000

Actually, Hazelcast has had a monitoring console for some time and its quite nice: http://www.hazelcast.com/do...

Re: NOSQL Summer: Eventually Consistent

Toby DiPasquale — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:26:42 -0000

Actually, R, W and N indicate the number of replicas for a given piece of data. E.g. if you replicate data to three nodes, R + W must be > 3 for strong consistency. This will not change due to network partitions or other such conditions, rather only if you modify the number of replicas for a given piece of data.

Commonly, 3 replicas is the number used in a lot of the systems that offer this for number of replicas (HDFS, Cassandra, etc). Some common configurations for R and W are: R=1,W=N (fast reads, slow writes), R=N,W=1 (slow reads, fast writes), R=(N+1/2),W=(N+1/2) (trying to balance read and write speed) and R=1,W=1 (fast but eventually consistent)

Re: Brizzled: SBT and Your Own Maven Repository

Toby DiPasquale — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:59:17 -0000

Where's the damn Like button on this thing?

Re: Logrotate For Rails

Toby DiPasquale — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:26:13 -0000

Nice! I think you mean "root" up there in the second to last sentence, though ;-)

Re: Philly ETE

Toby DiPasquale — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:39:17 -0000

Absolutely. Philly ETE is one of the best run conferences on the East Coast, and it keeps getting better every year! Thanks for speaking!

Re: Web Sockets in Tornado - Bret Taylor's blog

Toby DiPasquale — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:34:35 -0000

As far as the load balancer issue is concerned, the safest thing to do to avoid that is application-level keepalive messages. Sending these every so often would prevent overzealous proxies from snapping WebSocket connections. See here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: O Sverige! - Joanna in the snow

Toby DiPasquale — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:20:26 -0000

Your photography needs some work, buddy ;-) That's either Joanna or The Undertaker :-P

Re: Decriminalize Insider Trading

Toby DiPasquale — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:42:01 -0000

This WSJ article made the front page of Hacker News and there's a discussion going on there about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901138 (I'm trying to hold the natives down over there as 'codeslinger')