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mali9on Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission returns with samples from moon's far side

The plot would be every similar to Apple TV's "For All Mankind" show, I won't spoil who all populates the moon though.

mali9on The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?

Minimal Version Selection

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs

mali9on Facebook to Research Ad-Free Subscription-Based Version

The real power of Facebook is the trove of user data that they obtain through the freemium where the "user is the product". It will be really interesting to see the subscription price and how many users will end up actually paying for the service and to what extent a subscribed user's data collection is stopped is yet to be seen.

mali9on The Bus Factor

[1] Also the same reason as to why companies limit the number of executives traveling in the same plane to a destination

[1] - http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

mali9on Things I’ve learned using serverless

https://servers.lol/ is a one resource at a very high level to see if EC2s or Lambda is a good fit for the use-case you are looking at.

The site gives a cost estimate and an application score comments (latency, burstiness, function execution time)

mali9on Things I’ve learned using serverless

In my opinion, serverless is not there yet for large scale latency-sensitive use-cases (where they cannot be hidden by UI tricks). Startup time of lambda runtime (cold container and then the language runtime) is high for web use-cases where the tail latency of multiple seconds cannot be tolerated.

Lambda serverless is really good if you have low RPS and want to pay-for-use due to the low RPS ( prototypes, small production apps, cron-jobs, regular scheduled events, compute intensive - image processing jobs)

mali9on Slack refunds customers 100x amount paid during outage

Haha. I also see many such demands being made for small open-source projects (1-2 person(s) in their free time, not company funded)

Are there any resources / services where such developers can get paid on request and they work on the issues after that ?

mali9on Show HN: Deploy a Go Lambda to Ping a Site in 20 Seconds

Or you could invoke the lambda on a schedule using Cloudwatch

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-scheduled-...

mali9on Mr. Amazon Steps Out

Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16136800

mali9on Tesla Roadster

How are they going to keep up with production on Roadster when Model 3 production itself is slow and low ?

mali9on Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think

One small difference is that the activity on GMail or large email providers is generally two-way and it becomes clear when you understand that clicking "Send" sends your mail away to be stored in GMail forever unlike where photos somebody would be taking with their friends are not aware if it is put in Facebook or similar social places.

mali9on Google Cloud Source Repositories now GA and free for five users and 50GB storage

I wonder if the equivalent of Github Webhooks is present in Google Cloud Source Repositories, as far as I can see, couldn't find any in the product page.

mali9on Netflix site is down

Yes, you are right. Infact I was wondering the same too. They also make sure their systems are resilient by testing out scenarios as simple as one instance going down [1] to a whole data center going down [2] and yet this happens. I guess we have to wait till the post-mortem report comes in on this.

[1]- http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in... [2]- http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html

mali9on What would you want offline to be without internet for a year?

Wayback machine [1] if 20TB of storage space is enough for it.

[1] https://archive.org/web/

mali9on Netflix site is down

Does Netflix have a standard status dashboard like other services do ?