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While I agree (my boss and I are actually having this conversation presently), I would argue that if you're in any sort of cloud environment (which this article has set as a point of narrative), then just having an Ops s3 bucket or similar to send the files works. Although that of course still means SSH to get there "most likely". But could be accomplished without.

FTR, I'm in favor of restricting SSH/RDP, perhaps even disabling from the security groups (AWS), on a default basis, and enabling as needed for ops troubleshooting. If we have logging and monitoring in place cleanly enough, then we should be able to troubleshoot the majority of issues off instance. However that is almost NEVER the case (even if you have the tools, you still have too many edge cases). Case in point, I've been troubleshooting a Windows CPU usage issue recently. Our monitoring wasn't catching all of the disparate processes, so I couldn't see what was eating it up. Plus I would pull the node from the ELB prior to investigating, which then caused it to no longer peg CPU. Had I not been able to login while "live", I may not have ever seen what it was.

Obviously in order to perform such a function, one needs incredible reliability in your monitoring/logging tools. Sadly this is a more difficult function than it should be....

Sadly no, it was a terribly anecdotal claim with no official evidence to back it up. I guess the point behind my claim is what do you mean by "working with git"? To me it is about checking code in, diffing, etc... which most people I've ever worked with do from the terminal. Occasionally I'll see folks want a gui for diffs (not really surprising since it's kinda fugly from terminal), but do most of the "work" from term.

So I suppose I shall digress and admit I committed a total failure at an internet statement on a decently technical forum.

in the words of Homer....

doh!

I used to work for a mobile services company. We used technology similar to this. It is NOT cheap, nor easy to build. Some places give you a web interface that connects remotely to physical devices on the other side and some nifty robotics to control the phones/push buttons/etc... This is down right affordable!

Lambda is pretty much there.

uhhh....yeah.....I would say the vast majority of devs in the non-MSFT space use terminal more than 99% of the time...

I've seen people use project management software for their personal lives. Trello and the ilk, as example. I've attempted it, but never manage to maintain it very long.

They also were on Shark Tank and Robert got on board with them.

looks like it's back, but chromes dns caching is getting in the way. Do an incognito session and you'll see it back.

really excited to see some progress on this. Hopefully the linux/mac versions come soon!

Officially down: (officially as in the sites checking this stuff say so!)

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/facebook.com.html

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

Looking through all these comments, my only response is "effing nerds..." <3

You only need to pay the $600/month if you need to support clients older than IE7. You can use the SNI option instead which is "free" (relative to the rest of the costs associated with a CFD).

this is pretty awesome. Definitely some tools in here I'd not heard of before and will help get a nice clean mac. Definitely playing with this more!

funny, when I have a mac and run Chrome exclusively, this thing is the biggest power drain I run (besides Outlook 2011....)

thank goodness, how else would 4chan have been allowed to exist on teh interwebz?

As a rule, NEVER EVER use CNAME's within AWS on Route53. You should always use their A Alias function. This provides near instant changes when you need to adjust a record. This only works on aws resources, but it is a great feature they built in.

just to drive a point home about "calling out stupidity". Your follow up statement is the equivalent of stating "I'll never ever ever use a Windows product because several years ago I use Windows M.E. and it was so bad and they wouldn't fix anything so they can't possibly have fixed any of the issues I may or may not have actually experienced".

It really irks me when people use this sort of logic. I can't say what their support was like several years ago, but I have heard nothing but fantastic things about their support and service offerings over the last 2-3 years, and not by the general web user, but by us "nerd elites". So dude, chill the Eff out and don't be such a hard ass against something that happened admittedly several years ago.

Oh, and you call out "what could they possibly provide me after so many years", well you have a direct response from a customer support person who has offered the ability to "make it right". You do not know what they would be willing/capable of doing until you ask. So get off your high horse and just ask. They might surprise you...

/rant

This is EPIC news! We were just beginning to plan our rolling our own SNI infrastructure to replace Cloudfront due to the previous limitation and cost prohibitiveness of the dedicated IP model. Excited to test this out and see what happens!

While I can see the argument in that direction, the point he made was to "delete" the other post before reposting. Think of it like first drafts of a story/article/blog post you're writing, you almost NEVER get it right the first time. Sometimes it takes a few iterations (just like software development hmmm?) before you find the right combination to trigger a general interest.

HN, Reddit, Slashdot, all of these share similar requirements of "finding the right combo of post/title/content/etc... to appease to the wider audience".

What he recommends, I think is a worthwhile endeavor. As long as it is not abused...

Appears to all be back online. - amazon.com = back - aws console = can login and work - SES = queue's have cleared

Nothing on the @awscloud twitter either. Really sad support. https://twitter.com/awscloud

Same, can't get to the console or any other service. Our instances do appear to be responding however, so they aren't completely down.

AWS console is also down. We can't login and others are reporting the same issue. Our hosted instances and infrastructure however is online and functioning.

While he is right that you may not ever need the CPU resources, the RAM I would argue is necessary (plus it's only $100 and will overall make a HUGE difference).

Ram is one of those things you can almost never get enough of. I am a heavy chrome user (and general system user), and I cringe anytime it's less than 8GB because it requires much more tab management for me. Which may be better for me to do, but I keep a large amount of misc work in various chrome windows and tabs, and closing it isn't necessary for me.

Along with that, I'm often running a bunch of other apps. CPU is never usually a problem, but RAM definitely is.

That being said, you're probably fine with the base model, but I certainly would at least max the ram. :)

Will definitely have to give this a try. I've been more than put off my the menagerie that is the mixpanel interface (course GA isn't any better).

I agree with this, My wife has worked at a couple companies in billing a/r and specifically has encouraged the bosses to let her make collections type calls just to find out what's up. more often than not, she was able to not only get lots of positive information, but a significant return on past due invoices and whatnot, thereby justifying her employment. There were often cases of "oh, I didn't realize I had an invoice" or "oh, I moved and it must have gotten lost, here's my CC number to make the payment" etc...

Oh and for the record, she has had instances where she had to track someone down via googley means because their cell changed, or business address changed, etc... and she was never reprimanded for "How did you get my number?!?!?" Usually they were grateful. Granted not always ;)

one could probably reasonably argue that an agency of that type is most likely going to have a larger focus on content as they aren't really "selling" anything, so much as selling their ideas, etc...

One could argue that if a browser is your only environment, that you'll be spending the most time in, then why wouldn't you want the best option for running said browser? The way I see it, if you're going to be working in a completely remote/cloud capable environment, then a powerful, fast, beautiful screened machine to work from makes the most sense.

My current job gave me a Dell Latitude E series machine for work. I work exclusively in AWS. The screen on this laptop is so horrifically bad that I practically get sick looking at it. Compared to my personal (2010 era) macbook pro, or the Retina MBP's I've used at my last two jobs, there is no comparison. I'd much rather have a lightweight powerful little machine that I can ssh from and have some sort of IDE or text editor to work on my AWS projects then worry about a big bulky crappy laptop that is overkill for my work.

Obviously I realize this is MY current use case, however I'd be willing to be that the majority of dev/devops type folks on HN have a similar type of use case. AWS, Heroku, just about any PaaS, Saas, or Iaas, etc... would take advantage of a machine like this beautifully.

Oh and the last time I had an Air (right before upgrading to the rMBP), My use case? Chrome, Chrome, Terminal, RDP, Chrome. That was at a PC Game dev/publisher company where I administrated all windows based desktops, mac laptops as well as all servers of misc variety...

Sooo.....Is this machine useful? I think it is, and I am excited to check it out and may look to getting one.

One more thing, I too am one of the lucky Cr-48 owners and LOVED the concept. Biggest reason I hacked it to load ubuntu? SSH. Had the plugin existed back then? ChromeOS ALL THE WAY BABY!!!

/rant.

you hit the nail on the head (oppositely, I was surprised to see them deploy out HA Proxy by default). The lack of VPC makes this far less appealing. I've been working on a scaling capable VPC configuration with quite a few moving parts and got so giddy with excitement over the potential of OpsWorks, then I tested it out and realized it's nowhere near ready for prime time and is missing some major players.

Still...Props to them and am excited to see it mature.