discordianfish

Yes open sourcing it would be great. If only as example / inspiration. There are tons and tons of open source tooling and articles on building sites and services but rarely full sites with all the 'glue' around the core service that is necessary to actually operate it.

Re/ latency.at: This was probably /newest not the front page. My blog articles didn't work well on HN. But at least when launched I got on the front page. Still really hard to acquire users.

That's a great idea. I'd start by open sourcing everything and putting the offer to hand over access to domain and data in the project README.

BTW, I've just launched my first little SaaS. Seems like you have some more experience doing this. Maybe you have some feedback? https://latency.at/

Because facebook can sue them for violating their patents, now that they removed the patents grant.

And doubt they are okay with using it now.

Can someone explain why this is good news? As I understood it, the former license was as permissive but additionally to that included a patent grant?

I've added a play-with-docker button to give you a prometheus+grafana instance scraping this.

Spun up this few hours ago, will be gone soon but if anyone wants to check it out without waiting for the metrics to trickel in:

http://pwd10-0-33-3-3000.host3.labs.play-with-docker.com/das...

I've just launched https://pub.latency.at/ which give you free Prometheus metrics for various cloud endpoints like S3. Doesn't look too bad right now though.

It's also hosted on S3 but still up and running. (The main service is independent of S3 anyway after setup)

Really cool generator. Got 87 points overall for my "logo": https://latency.at/favicon.png

I'd expected it to score lower than 66 points on the uniqueness. But guess there aren't many this simple logos.

None of these were shut down by the government.

Care to name a single example where "right wing organizations have been shut down for far less"?

I guess that word play didn't work out as I hoped. :)

Latency at. You know, as latency at this location. And of course latency wasn't available on more prominent domains.

I've just launched latency.at and I've started working on it about a year ago but in the beginning worked only a few hours per week in my spare time on it. In the past months I put more time in it while freelancing the other days. And yes, I felt exactly the same. The core piece was literally done in a day, but everything around it took forever. Happy it's "done enough" to finally launch it. But now the next hard part: Find (paying) users.

Thanks!

I just realize there is an open issue on Prometheus which, would it get implemented, would allow for very nice integration of the blackbox exporter as well as this service into kubernetes and tectonic: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3071

I know that https://cloud.weave.works somehow includes or uses hosted prometheus. Haven't tried it though.

The 2.0 release of prometheus will help with stale data but not support bulk import yet. For that you can track https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/535

But to be clear: My service isn't about running Prometheus off-premises. It only provides the metrics which you can gather with your own Prometheus servers.

Yes, basically geographically distributed blackbox exporters as a service.

I've added the necessary account functionality and also extended the http probe to split response times by 'phase' (dns resolution, tls handshake etc).

The later part will be upstreamed soon though. Already discussed the required changes with the blackbox-exporter maintainer.

How do you define love? Isn't the whole idea that it's beyond reason and moral?

You're not losing the license to use React if you sue Facebook. You only loose the patent grant if you do. In which case you're off as without a grant in the first place. At least that's how I understand it, so this still looks to me like people raging about something they simply don't understand.

In what way does it restrict you from suing Facebook?

From what I can tell the patent grant is only beneficial to users of the software, not facebook. And it exists to address the concerns people might have that, if they use any facebook tech, they might risk getting sued. If you decide to sue, you're as good off as before. But if you don't sue, you can be sure facebook will never sue you either for violation of the patents they granted.

That's how I understand the patent grant too. Are people here really confusing a grant with some sort of restricting of their freedom or do we miss something? I frankly don't want to believe everyone, including apache foundation, believes this without getting their facts straight..?

I'm from Germany, often considered the country of quality engineering and just look at our airport: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport#Del...

tl;dr: Planned to open in 2011, it's still in construction with some say it won't open before 2020.

Totally agree. Actually wished there was a paid acme service, basically the same as letsencrypt but without such low rate limits.

+ Get truffle from the truffle man

> 1. I can't believe Google doesn't have basic filters to disallow developers from registering an app named "Google Docs"

Believe! I think this is just one of the many cases where after the fact everyone is like "oh wow, how didn't they think about it". But that doesn't say you would have thought about this before reading this.

Not even talking about attracting talent but retaining it. That being said, in Berlin startups you don't need to speak german. You just need to be down with working for a shitty salary at a meaningless e-commerce project or copycat that is never intended to succeed.

This comment is so German on so many levels.

The reason those people aim for jobs in the UK or US is because there aren't good tech jobs in Germany. Arguing for mandatory German classes to 'lock in' talent somehow is simiarly uninspired as tech companies here. What about creating jobs that good people are willing to work at?

> that's a relatively unusual workload and even that assumes that you have both insignificant amounts of persistent data and frequent new deployments.

That might be true for enterprise (I simply don't know) but in the startup world these are these are actually the most common workloads: Stateless apps that scale vertically.

I agree that startup time doesn't matter much if you need to do lot of initializations. But in my experience in most infrastructures these are a few databases of which there are orders of magnitude less than other workloads.

> Once you have apps which use significant resources and persist non-trivial amounts of data – i.e. what most developers work on – the difference becomes a lot less significant

If you spin up the VM once and it runs for days/weeks that is true. In a cluster scheduler environment you usually have immutable images where every change requires replacement of the workload. In such scenario your VM or container might get replaced a few time a day, during every deploy. That's where VM startup time becomes an issue.

It says "C1 - A true metal ARM server running in the cloud." on their product page.

I think the higher level goals are pretty much aligned with those of kubernetes. That it uses 'containers' to achieve this, is just a side effect.

And it's surprising flexible! You don't need any overlay networking, you can just define a IP range and it will 'just work' as long as your nodes are in the same ethernet segment. If you grow to more than, let say, 500-1000 pods, you need some routing but still can do without overlay networks.

I'm currently working on a project where I use the kubelet standalone. I can give it a pod manifest and it will make sure the specified containers are running. This doesn't need any cluster components or data stores and is already useful for tiny use cases. Also using this now for my tests instead of docker-compose.

> The servers themselves are not noticably cheaper in price than x86-based servers

You mean given the rather slow cores? I can't think of any provider offering x86 bare metal at this price.