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New comment by gooeyblob in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

gooeyblob — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:02:51 +0000

Internet Archive | Senior Datacenter Network Infrastructure Engineer | On-site SF Preferred | https://archive.org

The Internet Archive is looking for a datacenter & network engineering to help us with our physical datacenters (one is a converted church in SF!) and networking stack. We have a global site pushing 100s of gigabits out of on-prem and bare metal, adding 150TB a day of new data.

More info and application at https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/... , but please email me at kevin.oconnor@archive.org for more info or a quick chat about the position!

New comment by gooeyblob in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

gooeyblob — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:04:11 +0000

Damn you're right, let's just not do anything good and useful for people

New comment by gooeyblob in "Tracking the international space station with an Arduino"

gooeyblob — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:08:40 +0000

So cool! TIL that pencil lead can be a lubricant.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Leaving and Waving"

gooeyblob — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:22:17 +0000

It is very weird to write all this about a nice series of photographs

New comment by gooeyblob in "How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency"

gooeyblob — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 03:18:49 +0000

Yikes! Wonder what's up with GCP in that regard.

New comment by gooeyblob in "How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency"

gooeyblob — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 02:54:39 +0000

I'm curious as to why with a system like Scylla (that I assume shares the same replication properties as Cassandra which my experience is based off of here) you can't just use the local SSDs and absorb the disk failures. If you space things out across AZs you wouldn't expect to lose quorum and can rebuild dead servers without issue. Is this to run things with a replication factor of 1 or something?

I've done this in past roles on AWS with their i3, etc. family with local attached storage and didn't use EBS.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba"

gooeyblob — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:55:35 +0000

Looks interesting!

A couple notes: - the verification email went to my spam folder on Gmail - acknowledged is misspelled on this image https://kintaba.com/images/collab_splash.png

New comment by gooeyblob in "EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage"

gooeyblob — Fri, 18 May 2018 09:00:05 +0000

We use instance store for Postgres and Cassandra now on i3 and i2 respectively.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Video is Coming to Reddit"

gooeyblob — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:35:05 +0000

Reddit gold opts you out of all ads, not that there are any ads on videos now.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Video is Coming to Reddit"

gooeyblob — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:33:37 +0000

Direct links have never been disallowed, either by design or policy, so not sure where you're getting that.

New comment by gooeyblob in "How Yahoo Killed Flickr (2012)"

gooeyblob — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:19:41 +0000

That's quite a bit of conjecture!

New comment by gooeyblob in "How We Built r/Place"

gooeyblob — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 04:09:11 +0000

Thanks for the support!

We don't have a normal CDN, we have Fastly. They are really incredible at what they do, and this would not have been possible with our previous CDN partners.

New comment by gooeyblob in "How We Built r/Place"

gooeyblob — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:03:44 +0000

We've been using Cassandra for 7 years since 0.7.

New comment by gooeyblob in "How We Built r/Place"

gooeyblob — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:01:41 +0000

> The database would be a custom program that would:

Creating a "custom database program" is not a small task.

We like to use boring technologies that we know work well. We were already using Cassandra, had some experience with Redis, and had a lot of confidence in our CDN.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Gitlab 9.0"

gooeyblob — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:53:49 +0000

Looks like those last two screenshots are Grafana - do you mind sharing the dashboard JSON for those views? Very cool!

New comment by gooeyblob in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

gooeyblob — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:47:56 +0000

If anything, it should make you trust reddit more! I don't know the exact details as to why your account may have been locked, but generally it will be because we're being proactive and have some signal that your account is using a weak or reused password.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

gooeyblob — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:23:02 +0000

Reddit is not affected.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

gooeyblob — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:22:44 +0000

Unrelated.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

gooeyblob — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:22:29 +0000

We moved off of CloudFlare to Fastly before this vulnerability.

New comment by gooeyblob in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

gooeyblob — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:21:55 +0000

That would be unrelated to this. We haven't taken any action on any accounts because of this issue and have no plans to, as we (reddit.com) were unaffected.