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ricketteon How we migrated Gov.uk notify to AWS elastic container service

Each major cloud vendor has dedicated gov regions for the US government, not so much for non-US govs.

ricketteon Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator

I was just thinking didn't Netflix already have its own workflow engine: https://github.com/Netflix/conductor, but found out it's archived/EOL so this makes more sense now.

ricketteon Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner

When you host your static site on Cloudflare Pages you'll also get Cloudflare Analytics which is cookieless.

ricketteon Is Kotlin Multiplatform Replacing Flutter?

JetBrains exists since 2000 and is privately owned. Not VC funded. Looks as solid as it gets.

ricketteon Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-like code

I've given my Go templates a double suffix like index.go.html and index.go.json. Most tools will recognize these as HTML and JSON files so highlighting works as expected. Additionally in JetBrains IDEs you can assign the "GoTemplate" language to .go.html and .go.json files and it will also recognize the template/html and template/text syntax. So this gives you full syntax highlighting of both HTML/JSON and Go templates.

See https://github.com/PDOK/gokoala?tab=readme-ov-file#intellij-... for a script to set this up.

ricketteon If Britain is so bothered by China, why do .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

Was flabbergasted by this as well. Anyone know any other countries that allow ads on government websites? This is the first time I'm hearing about this.

ricketteon IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says

Atlassian

ricketteon How I write unit tests in Go

Tests inside one _test.go file are run sequentially by default, but Go does run tests in parallel across packages.

ricketteon Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests

I used to run all kinds of (custom) fake in-memory servers in my tests. Nowadays I just run the real thing using Testcontainers (https://testcontainers.com)

ricketteon Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go

Used the Java version (https://failsafe.dev/) of this library a few times. It's been around for a number of years. Works great!

Glad to see a Go version.

ricketteon Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

Also Oracle Exalogic (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Exalogic)

ricketteon Ask HN: Did you turn off Google activity tracking?

Yes many years ago. The only annoyance I have is GMaps not remembering recent places. So you have to type in an address every time. Still outweighs being tracked all the time.

ricketteon There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux

Mongo and Elasticsearch also recommend using XFS. So Talos isn't unique in this. XFS is somewhat more often preferred in data intensive systems.

ricketteon How Netflix really uses Java

Prev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829395

ricketteon Documentation for the JSON Lines text file format

Pretty much, discussion: https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson.github.io/issues/1

Also when you're using this with GeoJSON there's https://stevage.github.io/ndgeojson/ which has an actual RFC (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8142)

ricketteon Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

Deepseek 33B is great. Also runs well on a modern (beefy) MBP.

ricketteon Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem

Over the network (when using azure or gcp storage) there's also https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki which doesn't require loading everything in memory.

ricketteon Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

Azure Container Apps (ACA) and AWS AppRunner are also heavily "inspired" by Google Cloud Run.

ricketteon JetBrains CEO Transition

Why is that? Based on what?

ricketteon Ask HN: How do you setup a new Mac?

Developer scratchpad: https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop

Outbound firewall: https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

Stop working as admin all the time (but switch easily): https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges

ricketteon Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"

host.docker.internal

ricketteon 80 years later, GCHQ releases new images of Nazi code-breaking computer

"After the war, Flowers received little recognition for his contribution to cryptanalysis. Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build Colossus" (src: wikipedia).

Incredible...

ricketteon We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres

Indeed, Hikari is the go to connection pool for some years now. It's even the default when running Spring Boot.

ricketteon Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

Thanks! You made quite an impact establishing all those projects.

ricketteon Templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go

"A HTML templating language for Go that has great developer tooling" as long as you're using VSCode... I don't see a JetBrains (GoLand/IntelliJ) plugin.

ricketteon Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

Llama models run fine on the M2/M3 Macbooks thanks to llama.cpp/GGML.

ricketteon The Hole: A tiny NYC community forgotten for decades

Feels like material for a movie script, even the name is fitting.

ricketteon Microsoft open-sources ThreadX

The branding is probably also due to AWS having FreeRTOS https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/

ricketteon What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?

Yeah, most M-series are plenty fast I think. Just upgraded from a 2018 Intel Macbook to the M3 Max and the change is very noticeable. Hope and plan to keep using this machine again for 5+ years or so.

ricketteon Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler

Besides GOMAXPROCS there's also GOMEMLIMIT in recent Go releases. You can use https://github.com/KimMachineGun/automemlimit to automatically set this this limit, kinda like https://github.com/uber-go/automaxprocs.