Great to see consolidation in this area. Observability is super important in the cloud/microservices era. Standardizing the collection of logs, metrics and tracing is a big win.
Readit Newstalawahdotnet commented on Merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus medium.com/opentracing/me... · Posted by u/dankohn1
> After the program graduates pay 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000, capped at $30,000 total paid back to Modern Labor.
Something about taking a cut of someone's salary doesn't feel right to me.
If you were to borrow the $10k that they give you, over a 2 year period at a 10% rate (maximum allowed by law in CA), you'd pay a little over $11k. Modern Labor will charge you up to $30k over that same 2 year period, for an interest rate north of 100%.
How is this initial $10k different from a loan? Just because it's coming out of your salary doesn't mean it's not usurious.
In this equation you are valuing the bootcamp and career placement portion of their offering at $0. If you were to value it $10-15k then it is a different story.
At the end of the day they are offering a lot more than just 10k. They are offering training AND placement assistance. They are also assuming the costs of the people who fail to complete the program of get a job.
I am still praying that some day soon AWS will announce that they are joining Opencensus (along with Google, MS, Datadog, Prometheus)[1] in the hopes that we can move towards standard tooling for observability.
They also seriously need to give CloudWatch a UI/UX overhaul.
1. https://opencensus.io/introduction/#partners-contributors
Would be great to see global network performance comparisons with smaller providers like Digital Ocean and OVH. Everyone always knocks AWS on their bandwidth pricing, yet the pricing is in line with other major cloud providers and CDNs (GCP, Azure, Fastly). I would love to see what the actual trade-off looks like. Is there really that much of a difference in performance or reliability between them, or is it just a case of oligopoly pricing.
Would also be nice to see some stats for traffic within the same AZ as well. I generally see ping times between 0.1 and 0.2 ms within the same AZ on AWS, would be nice to know what that looks like on Azure and GCP.
talawahdotnet commented on JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments decryptmedia.com/5173/jp-... · Posted by u/timcc50
>The coin will be issued on the Quorum blockchain which was developed by JP Morgan over the last year and is a private blockchain inspired by Ethereum. This means only selected miners will be able to process transactions, unlike public cryptocurrencies where anyone can.
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>The purpose of the JPM Coin is to allow businesses to make near-instantaneous transactions of value across the internet without having to move fiat money in the background.
I genuinely don't understand what the blockchain does here that couldn't be implemented by any random database system. I mean the euros that I have in my bank account are also just a number that could be moved "across the internet" instantly if they so desired.
The big innovation with Bitcoin-like blockchains is that transactions can be done trustlessly but the whole "private blockchain with accredited miners" turns it into basically a slow inefficient database with extra steps.
Is it just a buzzword to generate interest or is there an aspect of this I'm missing?
Yea, it definitely has limited immediate value compared to a database as long as it is on a closed network. However it does allow them to experiment with the technology in a controlled fashion. They could have done so quietly but, you know, marketing.
I think there is still value in Blockchain networks like Stellar[1] that are not fully decentralized, but are federated and diverse. If this is a first step towards them issuing a stable coin on a network like that then I welcome it.
Official announcement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/B...
> We will also publish the IE11 upgrade through Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for all versions of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard later this year.
Nice! I wonder, will they eventually do this with their Chromium-based version of Edge?
Yea I really am hoping their Chromium based browser gives them the combination of broad compatibility and enterprise integration needed bring about the end of IE 11.
talawahdotnet commented on Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) blogs.microsoft.com/blog/... · Posted by u/whatok
I'm wondering how much the OCI and CRI-O has impacted Docker's value proposition. Docker Hub seems more and more like the real product, though I guess you could argue that the container runtime was never really a product in the first place.
Private repos on Docker Hub is definitely a product, especially if you provide a seamless path for moving from source code on GitHub to images on Docker Hub to containers deployed in the cloud or on premise.
MS could certainly also do good business selling Docker's friendly Enterprise orchestration tools (including their new Kubernetes based tool) which check all the Enterprise requirements for security, policy, identity management etc.
talawahdotnet commented on Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) blogs.microsoft.com/blog/... · Posted by u/whatok
A little off topic, but I wonder how long it will be before MS acquires Docker Inc. Seems like an even better fit for them now that they own GitHub. GitHub + Docker Hub on the developer engagement side and Docker Enterprise on the traditional enterprise side.
talawahtech commented on Travis CI acquired by Idera blog.travis-ci.com/2019-0... · Posted by u/involans
Lots of mention of CircleCI and Gitlab as the reason for Travis' downfall, which is very true. I also think GitHub announcing GitHub Actions[1] may have been the final nail in the coffin.
I think GitHub Actions will become a major force in the CI market in short order, it has so many things going for it
a) Everyone already has an account and lots of code already lives there. One less extra thing to worry about.
b) I trust MS/GitHub with my Cloud secrets more than I trust the various other CI providers.
c) The financial backing of MS to provide a significant free tier
d) The fact that actions can so easily be shared on GitHub is a killer feature. More are more projects/companies will build actions for their end users.
I would nominate these as key snippets instead:
> For if there are no rules being broken it becomes tempting to ask why a decentralized architecture is the best tool for the job.
> you can indeed build and release a system such that when ‘the man’ comes over to compel you to stop whatever it is that you’ve done that annoys him, you can actually say “no, sorry, it can’t be done”. But you cannot then turn around and easily make changes and updates to that system. Coordination costs are high and the timeframe to get things done is extremely long.
> if the objective of the game was to secure billion dollar exits and huge returns on capital invested, then every one of them [VC-backed companies] failed.
Overall great series of posts.
Yea, there are quite a number of useful nuggets in there. I also liked this bit on complexity from the third post[1]
> A second important theme for decentralized systems is a common lack of appreciation for just how complex these systems are and how finely balanced they need to be to operate correctly.
I originally joined Bittorrent in 2007 to work on a decentralized CDN which aimed to do something like “tie together all the unused storage and bandwidth on people’s PCs into a content delivery network which had zero operating costs (for us)”.
In time it proved there were a number of things wrong with this ambition (most of which I won’t touch on here), although perhaps the most important one which we discovered the hard way was the cost of complexity.
1. https://medium.com/@simonhmorris/intent-complexity-and-the-g...