Hacker News: hydroxyethanehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hydroxyethaneHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:37:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by hydroxyethane in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"]]>We run a significant amount of stuff on spot-instances (AKS nodes) and use the service detect, monitor and gracefully handle the imminent shutdown on the Kubernetes side.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/lin...

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:57:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624546hydroxyethanehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624546https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624546<![CDATA[New comment by hydroxyethane in "The Development of Erlang (1997)"]]>Could you elaborate why mnesia is useless? I've only used erlang and elixir in hobbyist projects but in theory mnesia felt like great fit into the erlang ecosystem.

]]>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 17:04:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27384220hydroxyethanehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27384220https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27384220<![CDATA[New comment by hydroxyethane in "The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets"]]>thanks for your answer so basically it relies on plain TCP and its reliability features. If you need something more sophisticated you gotta do it yourself within the application code (or using libs).

]]>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:50:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273078hydroxyethanehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273078https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273078<![CDATA[New comment by hydroxyethane in "The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets"]]>Could you explain why that is to someone (me) has never done anything nontrivial with it? Thanks.

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