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KenCochrane

1,437 karma · joined March 4, 2011

Software Developer living in Southern Maine

For more info, checkout the following links:

Blog : http://KenCochrane.com

Github : http://github.com/kencochrane

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kencochrane

Stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/356788/

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KenCochrane··on Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source
It is there, it made it in very recently, so the docs aren't great.. but check out the CLI docs for some more information on push/pull

http://docker.io/documentation/commandline/cli.html

We welcome all pull requests and issues, so if you notice something missing in the docs, feel free to let us know, or add :)

KenCochrane··on Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source
Correct, it is written in Go. Checkout the repo to see all the wonderfulness. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker
KenCochrane··on Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source
If you have a cool screencast showing off what you made using docker, add the links here. We will take the best ones and put them on the docker.io website.
KenCochrane··on Dear Recruiters
I don't use Facebook, so I use linkedin as a way to stay connected with people I have worked with in the past. As people move on, phone numbers and emails change, but linkedin lets me stay connected to them even if I no longer have their email or phone number.

Once again, I'm not against getting sent relevant job openings, I'm just tired of people who just spamming everyone without even bothering to read the profiles.

KenCochrane··on Dear Recruiters
LinkedIn is for more then just getting job offers. I don't use Facebook, so this is my way of keeping in touch with people I have worked with in the past.

Also, I don't mind getting emails telling me about jobs I might like, but as long as they are targeted and relevant to me. Most of the people sending these emails don't even read my profile.

KenCochrane··on Dear Recruiters
Yeah, I'm hoping it will save me some time. Now I can just send them this link each time I get a message, and if they bother following the link, doing as I say, and writing back then I know they are at least serious and not just fishing.
KenCochrane··on Dear Recruiters
I wish linkedin would allow you to add this stuff to your profile. Ideally the search/spam feature of linkedin that recruiters use, would have to pass your filter before getting sent to you. This way if you get notified at least it passed your filter and you would be OK with it.

That would be a feature I would pay for.

KenCochrane··on Deploy your Go apps on dotCloud
Thanks, I didn't see it listed on their site anywhere.
KenCochrane··on Deploy your Go apps on dotCloud
Thank you. I hope you get a chance to check it out. It is FREE to use, and what ever comments you have good or bad, we would love to hear them.
KenCochrane··on Deploy your Go apps on dotCloud
I could have done that but, but I decided to build on the server for a few reasons.

1. I wanted to keep this custom service similar to other dotCloud custom services where they build on the server.

2. I didn't want to have to worry about trying to build on the client, there are a lot of unknowns, where as on the server I know what is going on and it is in a controlled environment.

3. I'm still new to Go, and I wanted to keep things as simple as possible to start.

I'm not opposed to doing the cross compiling on the client, I just needed to make a choice, and I picked the server side instead. If I hear from people that it is better to do this on the client, I'd be happy to accept a pull request to change it.

KenCochrane··on Deploy your Go apps on dotCloud
I'm still new to Go, so I'm sure there are ways to make this much better, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know. This was done during a hack day, so I know there are improvements that can be made.
KenCochrane··on Deploy your Go apps on dotCloud
For those of you who want to see the source code, here is a link to the github repo. Feel free to fork, and do what you like to make it better for you. https://github.com/kencochrane/golang-on-dotcloud
KenCochrane··on Heroku now supporting Python version switching, and Python 3
I think you mean Django 1.5, Django 1.3 came out a couple of years ago.
KenCochrane··on Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
Looks like it is even more now..

This link reports 27 people dead, including 18 children:

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Gunman-killed-in-Conn-school...

so sad

KenCochrane··on GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
I have to disagree with your 'Neustar is a nice DNS provider' statement. I used them for 2 years, most of that time I was unhappy but because I was locked into a contract I had to wait it out or else pay a hefty breakage fee.

Their website/UI wasn't any good, very dated, they even rolled out a new one before I left, but that was horrible, they used AJAX everywhere, just for the sake of using it, and it made usability horrible.

Their support sucked as well, you would need to submit a ticket, and they take forever to get back to you, and they don't say anything besides "it looks fine to me". If you try and call them, you end up talking with someone who has no idea what they are talking about (same customer support line, for multiple products), or they don't speak english well.

You end up paying per DNS query, which is a really expensive way to pay for DNS, we were paying thousands of dollars a month to them for DNS alone.

Their advanced DNS services (DNS load balanceer and DNS failover) where very basic, and getting them setup correctly was a PITA.

There DNS service was nice until it crashed, which didn't happen often, but when it did, it took down half the internet with them.

http://cyberinsecure.com/ddos-attack-against-neustar-hits-ma...

I personally wouldn't have picked them to be our provider if it wasn't for one of our investors telling us how great they are and we needed to use them. I should have listened to my gut, but I also didn't want to piss off the guy paying the bills.

YMMV, but I would say, stand clear, and go to one of the newer folks doing the same thing for much less the cost, and more features.

KenCochrane··on Organizing a 24x7 bullet-proof on-call rotation with PagerDuty
Good point, our wiki is a backed by a mercurial repo, which is mirrored on bitbucket, and most people also have it checked out locally, so that if there was an outage that prevented us from viewing the wiki, we have other ways.
KenCochrane··on Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ
If you like this, you should check out ZeroRPC, it handles a lot of the boilerplate code you would need to write by hand.

Links: - http://zerorpc.dotcloud.com - https://github.com/dotcloud/zerorpc-python

KenCochrane··on Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS
It's about time, the performance of EBS is horrible. It's currently only available for 3 instance types. Hopefully they roll it out to more later on.

m1.large = 500 Mbps

m1.xlarge = 1000 Mbps

m2.4xlarge = 1000 Mbps

Pricing seems reasonable, if they can guarantee the performance, but it is a pain to have to pay more for something we should get out of the box.

One thing that isn't clear is if we still have to pay for I/O requests on the new Provisioned IOPS volumes.

This is what they say for pricing on their EBS page:

Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes

$0.125 per GB-month of provisioned storage

$0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month

Amazon EBS Standard volumes

$0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage

$0.10 per 1 million I/O requests

KenCochrane··on [dead]
Doesn't load for me, care to fill me in?
KenCochrane··on If you run a contest as a startup, don't be dishonest. JPEGmini scammed me.
What do that say "There's no such thing as bad publicity", I guess this company is going to JPEGmini, is about to find out. They are getting way more publicity then they thought, but the wrong type.. Too bad, looks like a nice camera.
KenCochrane··on Heroku is down again
Amazon posted an update:

8:21 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.

KenCochrane··on Heroku is down again
Don't think it was just heroku, lots of other sites were down as well, netflix.com, etc. most likely another AWS issue.
KenCochrane··on Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down
I'm still seeing issues, some instances that aren't starting, and others I'm still not able to connect to. So I'm not sure what they are talking about.
KenCochrane··on Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down
9:32 AM PDT Connectivity has been restored to the affected subset of EC2 instances and EBS volumes in the single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 region. New instance launches are completing normally. Some of the affected EBS volumes are still re-mirroring causing increased IO latency for those volumes.
KenCochrane··on GeoCities is not completely dead
What is great about that site is that the site footer and all the annoying icons/ads/membership rings is longer then the body of the site.
KenCochrane··on GeoCities is not completely dead
Poor guy is looking at his google analytics this morning and hoping he is going to sell a bunch of wooden ships from all this new traffic to his website, only to be disappointed.
KenCochrane··on DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
dotCloud doesn't have ads, to pay for the service like gmail. :)
KenCochrane··on DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
You're right the math is wrong on that one, but it isn't the only thing wrong. SSL is 160MB not 128MB. We will double check the numbers and fix it.

Thanks for pointing that out.

KenCochrane··on DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
Thank you for letting us know, we will get that fixed.
KenCochrane··on The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
I'm surprised that people haven't started contacting funnyjunk and telling them how much of a tool they are.

Here are some good links, if you are want to do more.

http://www.funnyjunk.com/contact/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/abuse/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/copyright/

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