Hacker News: LaserToy

New comment by LaserToy in "Deployment Confidence in Era of AI Coding"

LaserToy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:19:56 +0000

100%, and we have all of those things. Canary acts as the last line of defence, and honestly, when Canary detects and rolls back, it is already an incident that is being auto-mitigated with a limited blast radius.

To reduce the potential blast radius, we are working on a cohort-based canary, which will allow us to validate against a minimal, stable subset of traffic with the desired properties.

Deployment Confidence in Era of AI Coding

LaserToy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:21:56 +0000

Article URL: https://techblog.cloudkitchens.com/p/deployment-confidence-in-era-of-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866663

Points: 2

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New comment by LaserToy in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

LaserToy — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:49:39 +0000

Azure portal still insists the issue is jsut with Console.

We had to bypass the Frontdoor

New comment by LaserToy in "Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region"

LaserToy — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:09:33 +0000

TLDR: A DNS automation bug removed all the IP addresses for the regional endpoints. The tooling that was supposed to help with recovery depends on the system it needed to recover. That’s a classic “we deleted prod” failure mode at AWS scale.

New comment by LaserToy in "Our Journey to Affordable Logging"

LaserToy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:01:26 +0000

The architecture of our in-house Rust based logging engine

Our Journey to Affordable Logging

LaserToy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:01:26 +0000

Article URL: https://techblog.cloudkitchens.com/p/our-journey-to-affordable-logging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658230

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by LaserToy in "Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems"

LaserToy — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:45:35 +0000

Cloudkitchens use them as well: https://techblog.cloudkitchens.com/p/ml-infrastructure-doesn...

They call it a DREAM stack (Daft, Ray Engine or Ray and Poetry, Argo and Metaflow)

New comment by LaserToy in "ML Infrastructure Doesn't Have to Suck"

LaserToy — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:39:22 +0000

Same folks presented DREAM stack and some use cases at Ray Summit last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaaKT0IyutQ. and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McjH0WfdAyI

New comment by LaserToy in "Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler"

LaserToy — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:36:52 +0000

I love actors as a concept and I heard some large companies (Expedia) implemented large parts using them.

But I also saw how hard it is to understand a large system that built using actors. It is just hard to comprehend all the communication pathways and what happens in the system.

New comment by LaserToy in "Monorepo – Our Experience"

LaserToy — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 05:40:21 +0000

Amazon

New comment by LaserToy in "Unfortunate things about performance reviews (2021)"

LaserToy — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:51:45 +0000

Can anyone talk about a better model?

Some things to consider: 1) The company needs a way to weed out folks who are net negative. In general, if someone is not playing their part, there should be a mechanism to evict if up-leveling fails. 2) The company needs a way to distribute incentives (bonuses) as fairly as possible.

New comment by LaserToy in "Working from home is powering productivity"

LaserToy — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:47:00 +0000

Exactly. So, we need to make those companies more successful:)

New comment by LaserToy in "Working from home is powering productivity"

LaserToy — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:57:05 +0000

Was trying to gauge whether you are underpaid because you only accept remote work.

Economy will be the one that will determines the ultimate outcome, especially for tech companies, as they compete globally

New comment by LaserToy in "Working from home is powering productivity"

LaserToy — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:26:47 +0000

How much are you paid? Total comp?

New comment by LaserToy in "Working from home is powering productivity"

LaserToy — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:23:59 +0000

Companies need to make money. High performers will go to companies that make tons of money, even if relo to Sahara is needed

New comment by LaserToy in "Nuance: Preventing Schema Migrations from Causing Outages"

LaserToy — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:55:24 +0000

It's a cool way to avoid painful database-related outages. I've never heard of DataLog before, and it seems nice.

Also, City Storage Systems is known as CloudKitchens — a new startup of ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

Nuance: Preventing Schema Migrations from Causing Outages

LaserToy — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:55:24 +0000

Article URL: https://techblog.citystoragesystems.com/p/nuance-preventing-schema-migrations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798318

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by LaserToy in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"

LaserToy — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:58:07 +0000

Try Azure. I thought AWS was bad till I faced GCP support and some weirdness. I thought GCP was not great till I faced Azure.

New comment by LaserToy in "CockroachDB license change"

LaserToy — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:16:39 +0000

That is very interesting. As CRDB user, I priced Spanner (had to do some estimates during load testing), and Spanner came 3 times more expensive includign our eng salary to run CRDB

New comment by LaserToy in "Every map of China is wrong"

LaserToy — Fri, 03 May 2024 14:42:44 +0000

Fascinating. How does streets align on the Chinese maps though? If random offsets are added, nothing should align. Or 500 meters is not large enough offset to create a mess? What I mean, arrears that are parallel in reality, may not be parallel on a map.