aluskuiuc | 2 years ago | on: The Password Game
I may have had that one; there was southeast asian writing on a sign and it was Malaysia.
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aluskuiuc | 6 years ago | on: 16-inch MacBook Pro
I have a usb-c monitor connection, and of course the usb-c charger - so any third device requires unplugging one of those. In my case that's a usb-c yubikey. That dongle gives me an hdmi port I can't use (HDMI on the 13" pro can't drive a 34" monitor) and a usb-a port I can't use (I was good and got usb-c perpherals!).
aluskuiuc | 6 years ago | on: 16-inch MacBook Pro
It's decidedly inferior in its lack of hubs. If you don't have enough USB-C ports, you're SOL (and given I have a 2-port macbook pro, I feel this acutely).
aluskuiuc | 7 years ago | on: Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery
As a backup for engine failure that could be a substantially safer and cheaper alternative to a second engine.
aluskuiuc | 8 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter
Also, if the stock doesn't perform well, Amazon will grant you more to keep you in the expected band; but it won't take any away if you are making "more than you should".
aluskuiuc | 8 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter
Amazon has a target compensation for you for your first 4 years, with a cash signing bonus making up for the lack of stock in the first two years, so it evens out.
Of course the 5/15/40/40 model only applies to your signing; all further yearly stock grants are over the next 2 years from grant time.
aluskuiuc | 8 years ago | on: Amazon’s Australian Launch Brings Excitement, Dread and Defiance
Is Amazon Lightsail in Sydney what you're looking for?
aluskuiuc | 8 years ago | on: DynamoDB to Postgres: Why and How
I'm surprised the author didn't consider using DynamoDB Streams to replicate to a PGSQL database for the relational queries while keeping the primary key-value lookups on DDB.
aluskuiuc | 9 years ago | on: Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”
I think if your app is a cluster that requires a quorum, 2 AZs just isn't enough - you need to be running in 3 to be tolerant to one going down.
aluskuiuc | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions
A notable difference is that Azure file shares have a 5 TB limit for the whole share, and a 1 TB limit on the size of any given file [1], while EFS has no limit on the size of the file system, and a 52 TB limit on the size of any given file. [2]
Disclosure, work for AWS.
[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sto...
aluskuiuc | 10 years ago | on: Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
At least when I started there the first two years had cash bonuses to make up the target-comp difference before the larger stock vests came in, so it was fairly even.
aluskuiuc | 10 years ago | on: Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
This is a little disingenuous - that schedule only applies to the RSUs granted at offer sign time. Yearly stock compensation vests over a 2-year period 50/50.
aluskuiuc | 10 years ago | on: Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
There used to be - unsure if now - some very specific teams (like 2-3 in the whole company) that had to drive in for very specific issues. Basically if you need to get inside the cage in the datacenter where there are credit card numbers.
Amazon generally has a pretty strong remote work culture - I can even get my ipad onto the VPN and SSH around to get my work done.
aluskuiuc | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
> a Systems Engineer will always be paid 15 to 30% less than a Software Development Engineer at the same level, despite the fact that the skills and duties are not that much different, why?
In the past couple of months this was fixed by the creation of a new role called 'Systems Development Engineer'.
aluskuiuc | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
Speaking as someone who just finished a 2-year rotation through Cape Town as an SDE - massive, core parts of EC2 are still there and aren't going anywhere. "not as much EC2 work" is definitely not accurate.
aluskuiuc | 10 years ago | on: How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough
I was an intern in the WinFS team in 2004 - seriously nobody knew what it actually was even inside the team.
The best I could say was that it was a way for lots of applications writing their own complex datastores (like outlook) to share an OS-level platform so that it could be exposed to other applications with a unified API. It was way more a developer tool than a user-facing feature, but that's not how it was marketed.
aluskuiuc | 10 years ago | on: Microservices without the Servers
One of the easiest mitigations to this is to not even create credentials that have access to do anything that could run up a bill in any short amount of time. Between the Console (access protected with an MFA token) and IAM roles, neither you or your application ought to ever have to handle raw AWS secrets.
aluskuiuc | 11 years ago | on: How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2
This post was written a couple months before the c3s were released, I think.
aluskuiuc | 12 years ago | on: Critical Vulnerability: AWS Credential Disclosure
That said; the AWS APIs offer a lot of tools to hand keys to clients with extremely limited scope, both in API access and time boundaries. For example; a game could be given access keys that allow it to write a high score only to a particular row of a DynamoDB table, the one corresponding to that user.
Direct device->AWS use can make a lot of scaling issues very simple without needing a middleman service on every request. However this does not obviate the need for a federation brokering-type service that auths the device, calls AWS to get a time-limited token with permissions scoped just so, and hands that back to the client.
AWS provides Amazon/Google/FB web identity federation for just this use case: http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/manage-federation/.
aluskuiuc | 12 years ago | on: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS
If you get a notification that your instance is going to get terminated - then yes, you can stop/start, but then you will lose ephemeral disks (but not EBS volumes). If you get a notification that your instance is just going to get rebooted, then nothing's going to get lost.
As I said above - the terminology can get hairy pretty fast. It's valuable to take stock of what you really need persisted, and what use can be made of 'scratch disks'. Local ephemerals are fast and cheap (included in the price of any instance). They come with the operational overhead of needing to rsync data off of them yourself if you want to retire that instance however.
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