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$75M over two years is compensation of 75 engineers in the SV (not even taking into account opportunity cost - this 75 folks could innovate and bring more revenue)

So either it's not $75m or it was a bad idea.

The easy and cheap way to keep mixpanel cost under control is sample events or send only unique events per session.

I didn't did anything bad with them just used them in office. I was happy customer until they broke (after 7 month of usage)

I had QC25, $300, needs fucking piece of paper to be put into ear cup to work. Bose is a rip off. Just look into this vid - 40000 views of how and where to put piece of paper into your $300 headphones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYva0hOW0Q

This total BS. Joint graves and monuments to young soldiers killed in Afghanistan in almost every city is a good reminder about how "effective" USSR was at international politics.

I meant difference not about the fact that somebody shot the plane, but the difference in reaction.

Why Russia blocked tribunal? What about all that clowning around investigation, throwing a new weird version about accident (what about the version that goes about frozen bodies or version about shooting down the plane by Ukrainian Su-25 that can't reach that altitude? All of this went through Russian state TV channels and other state people (Investigation Committee etc.)

Yep they shot it and admitted it. It's a big difference

"It was regular war zone with dozens other planes shoot down"

with dozens of Ukrainian planes shoot down. (who shot them? where did they got weapons for that? where did they got skills for that?)

"Ukraine army shoot down civil airliner with 90 people on board just a few years ago" How many planes (korean planes to be specific) were shot down by USSR (that includes Russia)

This sounds really cool...Pensions ummm...

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Opscode Chef consulting. Devops. Infrastructure automation. Migration from Heroku to Amazon/Linode/Dedicated servers. Infrastucture review and audit.

I'm chef contributor. (I'm listed here http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Release+MVPs)

https://github.com/iafonov http://iafonov.github.com afonov@gmail.com

In fact connection in Ukraine is much better than even in US. I have 60 mbs at home and pay 15$/month without any traffic limit (no throttling too). For $20 you can get 100mbs. In most major cities you have an access to several providers so you can choose what works better for you. The ping to SF is 200ms. Upload download speed to SF is 4mbs/6mbs. Upload is faster.

In the city where I live (Donetsk) public areas are covered with free wifi service.

Nope, you've get me wrong - we start application every 5 minutes to process mailbox not for every email.

Read the article's disclaimer:) I think even if you'll have all possible things setup super-correctly and you'll put word `viagra` into the Subject field - nothing will help you.

I haven't worked with external emails providers. For now we are sending around 100-150k emails/day and we are using postfix as MTA.

Regarding server side rejects - again reading postfix logs can save you from such things. As an example recently we started seeing that we can't deliver a lot of emails to orange.fr, and the worst - if send just one email it always was accepted but when we sent bulk newsletter we had a lot of rejections - the reason was quite simple we've got rejected because of high frequency so we just had to throttle postfix on per domain basis.

Thanks for pointing it out. I link directly https://github.com/iafonov/domain_info in Gemfile. But anyway just pushed it to rubygems - https://rubygems.org/gems/domain_info, so you can link it as `gem "domain_info", "~> 0.0.1"`

None, but all of them apply to Mailgun or Sendgrid:)

As coob mentioned it could be rejected by some providers. Overall I think that situation when your emails are rejected by some providers is the worst possible. It is even worse than when all providers reject your email. For me the easiest way to track down such things is reading mta logs.

Thanks, I have never heard about this thing. I think I would add it to the article.

I think this would be the next step for me. For now our performance isn't a big issue and bounces are processed in background cron job once per several minutes. For now volumes of bounces are not so high as you have, so we are just fine with spawning application. Thanks for commenting.

-1 For Hero. Чувак извини, ты крут, но ведешь себя как долбоеб

Regarding breaking the communication barrier - if you hired someone from another side of the Earth and he is doing really a great job and you are fully satisfied with quality and price - visit him or her, air tickets are quite cheap and this will be great experience both for you and for your employee