In this case they reported Stripe's annual run rate — a metric that's roughly comparable to annual recurring revenue, but for non-recurring business models.
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According to the timeline on their own incident, it took them 71 minutes to notice the issue and acknowledge it publicly.
He first made this argument in 2017 in an article about Uber: https://stratechery.com/2017/the-uber-dilemma/
This is indeed a dupe.
* The sound quality is excellent. Wired or wireless, the sound is sharp and crystal clear. But it's not particularly flat; there's a lot of midrange that makes it sound a little muddy. I've set up a custom configuration for the iTunes equalizer that helps with the (rock) music I listen to: punchy bass, clear treble, but less mud in the middle.
* The noise cancelling isn't bad. It does a great job on public transit but it's not as all-encompassing indoors as the Bose QC35 seemed to be, from the little I've tried them.
* The BB2Ps aren't nearly as ugly as the product photos make them look. They're not particularly brown in real life, just dark.
* They're pretty comfortable although I find it fatiguing to wear them for more than a couple of hours. The new over-ear shape looks like it made a big difference on the comfort level.
* The Bluetooth signal tends to cut out quite a bit from my iMac at home, which is pretty disappointing. It works better from my MacBook Pro at work -- not sure if there's some interference at home or what.
Overall I do like them, but I don't know if I like them enough to justify the $200 I spent. I haven't decided yet whether to keep them long-term. If I don't keep these, I might switch to the Beats Solo3 without ANC, or just bite the bullet and go for the Bose QC35...
But it's only a penny, right? How much could it matter? It actually matters a lot. At both my previous and current employers, a surprisingly large portion of our hill comes from data transfer across AZs. All the microservices, all the memcache hits, and all the database replication add up quickly.
One downside is that you need enough free space on your disk to hold the packed copy of the table, so you need to run it before your disk gets too full. The last couple of times we've waited too long, so we've had to move the data to a larger host before we could repack it.
Side note: Medium posted an article last week about how most of their data is stored in DynamoDB, so I'm sure the Medium outage is related.
As far as I remember, S3's US Standard region hasn't had a serious incident since Fall 2012. That's a pretty great uptime record in general, even though it's terribly frustrating on days like today.
My current company spends a few hundred dollars a month on S3. I certainly couldn't match S3's uptime at that budget. Maybe I could do it at 2-3X the budget, but with that budget it might be easier to mirror my files across multiple S3 regions.
At the first company we had been using PPTP and L2TP for remote access but our employees were having tons of problems establishing connections and staying connected. Then we switched to the OpenVPN server built into our Vyatta router, along with the standard OpenVPN client. This required a ton of manual configuration on each client, but the connections were rock solid.
In 2012 I helped my new employer deploy OpenVPN Access Server, the commercial version. This one didn't need the clients to be pre-configured. Instead our employees went to a webpage, entered their LDAP username and password, and then were given a download that would do everything. The automatic configuration worked perfectly on Mac OS, Windows, and iOS. (I don't recall if anyone tried it on Linux or Android, but I never heard any problems about those.)
OpenVPN Access Server is ridiculously under-priced -- it's $10 per concurrent connection. If your usage is typical, where most users only connect occasionally, then you can connect hundreds of employees for under $1000. Even if it was a lot more expensive, my experience was quite positive and I'd still recommend this.