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ewindisch

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Former Docker & OpenStack. 2x founder. Infosec / hacker. Mother of clouds, destroyer of monoliths.
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ewindisch··on Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
Running 24/7 multi-agent autonomous devops and training a fruit fly brain to power an autopilot system.

>300 merged PRs/week

ewindisch··on Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
I'm using a lot of gpt-5.6-Luna and glm-5.3-flash. Astra is really fantastic but it's too expensive. I average about 50-90B/tok/mo.
ewindisch··on Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
How are you managing your tokenomics so well?

Astra low on the $200/mo "20x Pro" plan gets me through a single day.

ewindisch··on The Onion Shell
SSH over tor from your browser. Connect to .onion addresses or use exit nodes to the internet. Encrypted local vault. Arti (WASM) to Snowflake rendezvous servers over WebRTC.

git on my personal account (not an official Tor project):

https://gitlab.torproject.org/ewindisch/the-onion-shell

ewindisch··on Kris Nóva has died
Wow. I'm not sure what to say. She and I had a lot in common, both personally and in our interests. I hope she's at rest.
ewindisch··on How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
AWS Serverless Community Hero and CTO/Co-founder of IOpipe here.

AMA!

ewindisch··on How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
Humans are more expensive than infrastructure!
ewindisch··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
IOpipe | distributed remote | www.iopipe.com

IOpipe provides tools for developers of serverless applications, helping devs and operators deliver and run with confidence. We are seeking to grow our team with strong candidates with a comfort in remote work, collaborative and product-driven development.

Our stack is built on AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, React, and AWS Fargate.

Roles: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Solutions Architect

Hiring portal: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/iopipecom

ewindisch··on Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing systems
There's a free tier and we're happy to discussing pricing privately. Startups, individuals, open source projects are dear to our hearts and we want to make the product accessible to those that need it.
ewindisch··on Grassbian: AWS GreenGrass on the Raspberry Pi
I'm excited because this makes it so much easier to get started with Greengrass. Java, NodeJS, and Python with a full IoT service behind it... and compatible with AWS Lambda. Seems likely they'll add Go soon too.
ewindisch··on Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing
Systematic oppression makes ignoring ToS the default. Businesses choose not to cater to sex workers and such workers find themselves in the situation where there's no option but to ignore the ToS. You find that when services you take for granted aren't available, things get... harder. So you do what everyone else does to the best of your ability even if you are an "undesirable" that has been asked to stay outside the group, even when that's illegal. So yeah, sex workers are going to do what they need to do to survive and make ends meet, the terms of service for websites is the very least of their concerns when they don't know if they'll make rent this month.
ewindisch··on Chrome lets hackers phish even 'Unphishable' Yubikey users
The Yubikey is great and has uses outside of U2F, which I've never had much faith in.
ewindisch··on Who is the longest-serving programmer?
Vint Cerf started in 1965. He's moved into positions that are more management oriented, but I believe he's deeply involved in technology decisions.
ewindisch··on Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda?
We have code that you can run on your AWS account for more accurate information from servers.lol based on Cloudwatch metrics. Latency and coldstart information would be totally interesting, I'll suggest it to our team!
ewindisch··on Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda?
My team uses the Serverless Framework (serverless.com), git-with-github, and automate deployments from CI/CD.

AWS also offers some of these pieces fully integrated via CodeDeploy (which we do not ourselves use).

ewindisch··on Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda?
At Re:Invent last month, AWS introduced per-function concurrency limits that users can set. It can still rack up charges, but it offers a bit more control than before!
ewindisch··on Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda?
On AWS Lambda you could copy the Powershell Linux binary into your project and call it from wrapper code in NodeJS, Python, Java, C#, or Go.

Over in Microsoft land, Azure Functions natively supports Powershell according to this blog post: https://david-obrien.net/2016/07/azure-functions-PowerShell/

ewindisch··on Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions
lambda would be a good way of scaling this without improving the architecture otherwise :)
ewindisch··on Is the Era of Great Famines Over?
No.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/31/north-korea-warns-ne...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/north-korea-fe...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/opinion/pyongyangs-hunger...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine

ewindisch··on Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case
you know because they let you access and replay the recordings from their app.
ewindisch··on AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks
The Snowball ships bare, without packing materials. You receive it, plug it in, transfer data / run code, and ship it.

Still, you're right that there's a logistic issue of physically locating, networking, and powering these devices.

ewindisch··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
IOpipe (Techstars NYC'16) | REMOTE | Full-time

IOpipe is seeking SENIOR candidates for remote, full-time positions:

- Senior Frontend Engineer: you will work on our real-time dashboard building the visual and interactive elements of our service. Seeking candidates with experience in React and charting / visualizations using D3.

- Senior Backend Engineer: You live in NodeJS and/or Go and want to build a great API that processes lots of data, really fast. The ideal candidate will have experience with Kafka, Kinesis, and/or Cassandra.

About IOpipe - we offer application performance monitoring (APM) for serverless applications. We are a Techstars company and have just completed the Summer'16 program in NYC.

Contact hiring@iopipe.com!

ewindisch··on Why Kubernetes is winning the container war
I only do steps 3-5 here. I no longer find any value from Chef/Puppet/Salt/Anisble or Vagrant.
ewindisch··on 30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story
Lambda does not bill on these, nor do they provide you with these metrics out of the box. This is something that 3rd-parties can provide, however... it's something that we collect with IOpipe[1] (disclaimer: I'm CTO & founder)

[1] https://www.iopipe.com

ewindisch··on Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes
Reading through, it seems that JS is allowed, but the page needs to be functional without it. Ideally, the page would work with Lynx.
ewindisch··on Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
I wish I engaged in Silicon Valley and venture-backed startup culture sooner. If I had, my first startup might've had a better chance of success. Instead, I bootstrapped and ended up with a lifestyle business. I also started it at age 19, just as the '99/2k bubble burst, so I can't take it too hard...

I did finally begin integrating into the larger tech scene around '07 with the introduction of Twitter. This and other factors led me to deciding to exit the business and join startups (Cloudscaling, then Docker). I had, however, passed up on offers to join early-stage at a couple companies that had mega-exits... so there's certainly a bit of, "what-if?".

That said, perhaps if I had more early success, I wouldn't now be founding my current company (IOpipe, Techstars'16: www.iopipe.com)

ewindisch··on Show HN: Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
Sweet. I put together something similar for NodeJS which is now called 'turtle' (because it's turtles all the way down...). There's a bit of a focus on AWS Lambda & other FaaS solutions as a means of building Lambda architectures, but it can be used by itself.

https://github.com/iopipe/turtle

ewindisch··on Ask HN: Is it advisable to develop a high-scale website using only AWS Lambda?
Just mind that the tools and services around Lambda are getting better, but you will certainly be a relatively early-adopter. It will undoubtedly result in some extra time spent learning, but you'll also eliminate a number of critical operational concerns and concerns about scale.

Mind that Lambda will not handle state for you, functions are stateless. You'll need to store state into hosted services like DynamoDB, Firebase, S3, etc... or stand up (micro)services that manage that state (say, a PostgreSQL database in Docker, saving to an EBS volume).

ewindisch··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
IOpipe | Philadelphia, NYC | full time | onsite

IOpipe is building an open source community for tools to build, ship, and run serverless applications anywhere. www.iopipe.com.

We are currently hiring for a backend / systems software engineer, local to either Philadelphia (preferred) or NYC. You would be the second hire, immediately working with our engineering team and founders.

Your role would involve development of the IOpipe CLI, libraries, and APIs in Javascript (NodeJS) and Go. Knowledge of Docker and/or Kubernetes is ideal, but not required.

Email hiring@iopipe.com

Also, check out our projects on Github: https://github.com/iopipe/

ewindisch··on The Fixable Problem with Serverless
It's open source. I'm open to seeing how we might be able to integrate or work with Effe in our Go SDK, or if necessary, learn from your effort. Take a look at https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe-golang, I'd love a pull-request.

We're not an alternative to AWS Lambda or, "Lambda on your own infrastructure". Instead, we desire to make it easier to build apps that run anywhere, which includes both AWS Lambda and Docker. I suppose there's some overlap, but the goals and technical challenges are a bit different. IOpipe is also a library that simplifies integration with services that provide state.

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