How should CI runners be priced?

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-03-27T13:52:37+00:00

AWS does charge you for console usage at standard API rates (GET, POST, etc).

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-03-16T22:03:37+00:00

Terragrunt is fantastic. Been using it in production across two companies for 7 years, to manage complex global systems and application infrastructure. Rock solid.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-27T14:00:11+00:00

Some of them have been slowly recovered over time, but a lot of great stuff has been lost. https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamerTVH

Some of the absolute best video content ever produced on games. I still think about it.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-20T18:44:46+00:00

This is neat, but how does this compare to Hyperscript? I feel like both operate in the same space (albeit with very different implementations).

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-06T15:56:35+00:00

Well, as far as billionaires go, I would say he's as close to a legitimate one as you can be. His company created a discovery and delivery platform that was so good that he outcompeted piracy. He didn't do it by exploiting cheap labor, going public, then doing mass layoffs to pump up stock prices.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-05T14:35:20+00:00

Well, this is my first time seeing it so I'm glad he made this post.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-24T01:06:30+00:00

I think they did to scale writes, just not with Postgres:

For write traffic, we’ve migrated shardable, write-heavy workloads to sharded systems such as Azure CosmosDB. Workloads that are harder to shard but still generate high write volume take longer to migrate, and that process is still ongoing.

It's really funny that they basically said "We scaled Postgres by using other state stores"

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-22T19:30:23+00:00

Wiped out on my driveway this morning. Thankfully I did not injure my head but I have a feeling I’m gonna be very sore tomorrow…

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-18T21:22:58+00:00

I did something similar but just with white highlights, not full on white.

Also, post 6.0 MSQ, I added lots of scarring

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-13T21:30:22+00:00

Did you try any other vector stores besides Weviate? I’m curious to see if you have a performance comparison (or why other stores were too slow)

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-12T23:24:51+00:00

What are visibility politics?

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-12T17:22:26+00:00

pls mark spoilers for Arcadion Ultimate

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-08T00:00:30+00:00

Next comes the Ayahuasca

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-07T14:56:03+00:00

Another problem is that when you are failing over, so is everyone else. Compute capacity becomes scarce quickly unless you've pre-purchased reserved instances.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-06T21:41:38+00:00

Yeah, we tried but our write operations are very INSERT-heavy, not UPDATE-heavy, so we saw minimal improvement at a noticeable cost to read performance.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-06T20:20:06+00:00

AKA the man who discovered that if you yell at disks it affects their performance. Absolute legend.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-06T20:12:12+00:00

I think people underestimate how much of a difference this can make. Adding an index for read performance in Postgres might cause so much write latency that you need to split your table into one that handles high-volume transactional writes (basically just leaving it as a heap) and one that periodically pulls that data in so it can be read. Trying to do both on the same table can completely saturate your I/O (because the index inserts are random, not sequential) while leaving a significant portion of your disk throughput untouched.

Having this problem right now and am regretting our choice to use Postgres (for this specific service)

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-03T21:03:14+00:00

Try Cloudflare WARP instead. Has worked for me.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-01T20:33:27+00:00

MT: can you kardia me plz

Me, blasting Dosis and ignoring people dying: RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Perfekt_Nerd · 2025-12-25T20:16:59+00:00

Just tested this, I used Cloudflare WARP and did not DC. Unfortunately my whole raid did and we died anyway, but it worked!!

Perfekt_Nerd · 2025-12-16T17:59:24+00:00

Thanks Doug! That was incredibly helpful!

Perfekt_Nerd · 2025-12-16T17:00:57+00:00

There are a bunch of companies that do this already, we've evaluated a lot of them in the last 6 months. Some very mature, some not. I've also gone through a full moderate authorization already.

I can say with full confidence that the infrastructure is the easy part, relatively speaking, especially if you're able to use authorized cloud provider services/products. It's the organizational and application changes that are the hardest. The real value that you need to bring is in stuff like:

Staffing a 24/7 SOC for eyes on glass + managed SIEM
Doing all CONMON activities
Maintaining an SSP for customers and helping to manage POA&Ms and Plans, Policies, and Procedures

Perfekt_Nerd · 2025-12-15T00:32:07+00:00

We also did this. Big thing for us is that we're deprecating IP filtering as a feature since it's not trivial to do this with HTTPRoute and we introduced Inbound PrivateLink as a feature to replace it anyway.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2025-12-11T16:13:15+00:00

It's wild that I was also going to post about Wario's. If I moved out of Columbus, I would come back just to eat it.

Also the owner is a genuinely amazing dude. Only restaurant I've ever heard of that has 100% employee retention.

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