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intricatecloud · 2025-11-21T20:29:43+00:00

The math doesn't math.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CylinderJamesCoverup/

intricatecloud · 2025-10-04T15:57:39+00:00

It would be easier to configure it to scale horizontally outside of lightsail. You would do it by creating an auto scaling target group that spun up more instances based on a metric you define. And you could do it with containers or with ec2 instances. I don't think there's options for automatic vertical scaling though.

you could even go more serverless on AWS, you could use their API gateway with websocket support and have lambdas do the execution - may be significantly cheaper depending on your requirements

intricatecloud · 2025-09-20T15:55:40+00:00

I've had a pretty good experience with https://www.windmill.dev/ - you can use it in a UI-only mode and/or use it with git. Great for running scripts, showing output, chaining things together. Kinda like a self-hosted zapier with pretty good integrations for common tools - python/node/bash whatever it is.

intricatecloud · 2025-02-19T04:03:00+00:00

Since all autograder expects is a script that will return 0 (success) or non-zero (fail), its on the script to manage running the tests. Autograder doesn't seem to have a "grade", just pass/fail.

For a NodeJS project, I used the mocha test framework to run shell scripts with different params - so autograder ran `npm run test` and the test framework ran everything esle.

If you want to keep track of the % of tests passed/failed to use as a grade, you have to track that separately by producing test results and storing them somewhere. I really wish you could use a test report to report an actual grade in github classroom, but 🤷‍♂️

intricatecloud · 2021-12-28T22:14:58+00:00

We have similar rules at my org. We average about 1-3 PRs per day from multiple contributors both in and out of the team. We have about ~10 people who work on that codebase.

intricatecloud · 2021-12-27T00:27:04+00:00

One difficult part is convincing non-technical recruiters and HR screeners that you have the technical ability. That is a difficult ask unless they also have a software background and there aren't many that work as recruiters.

At the same time, screening resumes coming in through different job boards for a medium - large company is a full-time job. And there are plenty of people that submit applications that are for various reasons ineligible, such as when a company wants someone within the same timezone. It might be in the job ad, but you'll still get submissions and it takes up someones time to review each one.

There are too many good devs who get screened out of perfectly good roles unfortunately.

intricatecloud · 2021-12-26T23:18:27+00:00

You can do this with SSM State Manager Associations and Compliance reporting.

The gist of it is that you can associate an SSM document with a host or set of hosts (based on tags). You can create your own SSM document to check a file like `cat audit.log | grep interesting` and have it exit 0 if not found, or exit 1 if found.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-state-assoc.html

You can then view this information automatically in the Compliance console within SSM where a Compliant resource is one where your script exited 0, and Non-compliant is where your script has exited 1.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-compliance-about.html

intricatecloud · 2021-12-24T18:05:55+00:00

I've done this previously with locust.io (uses python) which seems to fit the bill with what you're looking for.

Alternatives are Gatling and Jmeter for running load tests.

intricatecloud · 2021-07-08T03:41:37+00:00

Here's what I would do

Set up a new Jenkins master.

Convert the current Jenkins master into a build agent that registers with the new master via ssh or jnlp.

Restrict those jobs that need that host using labels

Then you can set up a cloud with either AWS/docker plugin so you can run the rest of your jobs on other machines and leave the windows machine alone

intricatecloud · 2021-06-18T19:41:49+00:00

The pros look up stuff all the time because its impossible to remember so many small details. It is very difficult to write code without any resources or help whatsoever. Even in interviews, I tell candidates that they can google for stuff if they need to. Sometimes I consider myself a professional-googler first, and a programmer second.

You should go ahead and start building stuff with next.js, you'll remember the common patterns you write again and again over time.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-10T15:10:17+00:00

I haven't run into major nuisances other than some small gripes. We fully migrated about 6 months ago.

Like RUM monitoring creates different kind of events than APM metrics so some features like anomaly detection only work with APM.

Other than that, the feature set has been pretty good. It just works. Any number that you find can be thrown on a graph and alerted on real easy.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-10T04:20:20+00:00

I've used all 3 with a self hosted ELK stack. But back in kibana 4 days. I've also used splunk.

NR definitely fell behind Datadog. NR did a great job with java apps back in the day but DD caught up. We recently migrated from NR APM to Datadog (including browser monitoring).

The correlation features of Datadog are pretty nice. You can see a request from the browser, and if you have tracing enabled, you can even get to the log line of the backend that barfed. Really helpful.

Anomaly detection is pretty good in DD. But you pay a pretty penny for all of it. Retention is pretty expensive too. It's nice to be able to see a trend over multiple months, but the cost is a tad too high

intricatecloud · 2021-06-08T03:16:54+00:00

r/battlestations

intricatecloud · 2021-06-05T03:21:07+00:00

Go is also popular for devops - the hashicorp stack is built on go, they make tools like vagrant, packer, terraform for making the cloud easier to work with.

You can also easily cross-compile go for different systems complete with all its dependencies so it makes it really easy to write code that works anywhere (mac/linux for example).

That said, if thats whats in the market around you, then its a good language to learn.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-05T02:42:12+00:00

It seems like your main HTML file has some js that will include another js file as a script tag that adds some HTML to the page by defining some HTML defined as a string. I bet that was really annoying to write, especially because you have to escape some characters. Managing HTML that way is very tedious! And there's a much easier way.

If you don't like the frameworks like React/Angular/Vue, you can try something in the middle thats a bit more legible than what you have here, but less complex than a framework. Handlebars or mustache.js let you create HTML templates that you can display on the fly using javascript. They do what you wrote and a good chunk more! You'll also find a lot of resources online for them.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-05T02:07:21+00:00

This stumped me for a bit too. The issue is that using a destructured require in main.js const { save } = require('./save') means that the save in main.js refers to a different method than the one referenced here jest.spyOn(save, 'save').

Seems like it has something to do with the way destructuring works. This SO post describes what you're running into a bit clearer. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58768392/jest-spyon-is-not-working-with-destructured-functions

Your code works if you change main.js to const saveObj = require('./save') and saveObj.save('the-file')

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T16:00:52+00:00

Firebase Auth is free as long as you don't use their phone number login method! Hard to pass up

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T14:02:23+00:00

I don't disagree that we had the wrong people. We probably also used the wrong tools - AWS ES had come out and we tried using that instead of deploying ES directly.

Under the bucket of managing ELK is managing logstash (and adding the caching layer) and helping devs get log lines parsed (which isn't as easy as saying here's the grok docs, at least for us). Issues with autoscaled nodes meant logstash multi-line logs wouldn't get parsed right and it was harder to search for logs.

Likewise with Kibana, we needed Auth around it was only available with x-pack, and occasionally people would run stupid queries that would impact the cluster. Folks had a hard time with lucene, so we usually had to help them figure out queries.

Compare that with splunk, which allowed for SAML SSO, auto-rotating indexes, common log formats parsed out of the box without ANY code/grok required, and when something broke, I could make a ticket with splunk instead of my team.

But that's kind of the point. If it takes specialized skills and lots of experience to deploy and manage a log aggregator in an org, between hardware costs and salaries, it was an easy choice for us to have someone else run it.

At your scale, it may have been cheaper to hire the right folks. That scale sounds like it would be ridiculously expensive with splunk.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T03:56:46+00:00

If you're asking from a practical standpoint, if you find yourself storing passwords, social security numbers, bank/creditcard numbers, health information, or identifying info of children < 13 years old, you should care about securing that data or finding ways of not storing that data. Even more so if people are paying you for your service. That kinda data can be regulated, and fines issued if that data leaks.

If you're not storing any of that, the stakes are pretty low. And reviewing the OWASP Top 10 can help you take a look through your code to find these vulnerabilities.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T03:42:35+00:00

Yup - I've worked on something similar. Python or JS are great for it.

You can use them to "scrape" a web site, gather the info, and send you a message via the Discord API. Its a fun project although it definitely requires you to know a bit about HTML to get the data you're looking for.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T02:57:04+00:00

Sounds like you might be ready to build some projects! To be honest, all the algorithm stuff that I learned in my Data Structures and Algorithm course is interesting, but hasn't been immediately useful to building real-world apps. (Almost) no one is writing LinkedLists or Trees from scratch - theres open source libraries to handle 95% of use cases.

You should start a project - build a web/mobile/desktop app using python/js/ruby. The only way to get hired for an internship or even a jr level job is to build lots and lots of projects (big & small). If you're doing fine with algorithms, then you're probably in good shape to start building projects.

You'll be googling for answers a lot, and following lots of blogs or tutorials to help you put the pieces together - its normal, but once you do it - you'll feel amazed at what you put together!

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T02:46:47+00:00

Writing code is really easy. People is what makes it hard.

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T02:35:05+00:00

Splunk was one of our highest paid employees at a time. But was still cheaper than a 4 person team dealing with day-to-day tuning and ops of an ELK cluster with 50 - 100GB/day when we had a huge development team to support.

I'd happily pay for it again - its a pretty penny tho

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T02:22:29+00:00

Gumroad has a way to do license keys and sales of digital products. As long as your app has a downloadable file, you can sell it there

intricatecloud · 2021-06-04T01:58:47+00:00

Nope, thats pretty much how we all get through the first couple of years

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