Hacker News: vrosas

New comment by vrosas in "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"

vrosas — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:33:43 +0000

I can't even get a managed redis instance in Azure EUS2 right now...

New comment by vrosas in "GCP Introduces Budget Spend Caps"

vrosas — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:09:20 +0000

Cloud run was added this morning, which is how I was alerted to it. So presuming they're still building it out.

New comment by vrosas in "GCP Introduces Budget Spend Caps"

vrosas — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:07:13 +0000

docs: https://docs.cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-sp...

GCP Introduces Budget Spend Caps

vrosas — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:07:13 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/new-early-anomalies-and-spend-caps-on-google-cloud-budgets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071092

Points: 2

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New comment by vrosas in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

vrosas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:56:08 +0000

I feel for the wine growers, but as an avid wine consumer I'm looking forward to better deals.

New comment by vrosas in "Go Concurrency Distilled"

vrosas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:02:45 +0000

There are a lot of places where channels look like the correct primitive but may actually be overkill. One of my favorite examples is collecting results from a group of goroutines. If you know the number of results up front, you can just define a slice and give each thread an index of the slice to write to (and a waitgroup of course). No channels, no mutexes, and completely thread safe.

New comment by vrosas in "Go Concurrency Distilled"

vrosas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:11:05 +0000

Channels are honestly one of the most over-used things in Go. I've been writing Go professionally since 2015 and I honestly rarely use them. Programmers new to Go love to shovel them in everywhere because "why use Go if you're NOT going to use channels?" and I have to say sorry, no - write it serially, then determine if it breaches your SLOs, THEN determine if concurrency fixes it.

New comment by vrosas in "Salesforce Global Outage"

vrosas — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:30:41 +0000

Followed quickly by "Redeploying with more log lines", the next logical step.

New comment by vrosas in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

vrosas — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:26:38 +0000

Yes, but I dangerously allow claude and codex, too...

New comment by vrosas in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

vrosas — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:52:31 +0000

The CLI version of agy is great. Have you tried it?

New comment by vrosas in "My last six months at Evernote"

vrosas — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:45:16 +0000

I've worked with a lot of "smart" engineers over my career with whom autoscaling is a completely foreign concept, or a half-baked concept at best. My favorite is devs pushing to migrate to k8s because it "scales" and won't hear a single thing otherwise.

New comment by vrosas in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

vrosas — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:07:21 +0000

Americans would rather die than give up their air conditioned bubbles on wheels. I've wondered why someone hasn't tried manufacturing an enclosed go kart with AC and enough trunk space for a few groceries.

New comment by vrosas in "iPhone Duo"

vrosas — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:35:40 +0000

You're going to look very silly taking a call on that.

New comment by vrosas in "Apple Watch Series 12"

vrosas — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:21:09 +0000

I was recently looking for a new running watch but couldn't for the life of me figure out what Garmin's higher end watches do to justify being over $1000. Like, ok, better battery life... but besides that?

New comment by vrosas in "Apple Watch Series 12"

vrosas — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:16:59 +0000

This thread is just PR people from other watch brands astroturfing.

New comment by vrosas in "Ok, but does it scale?"

vrosas — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:11:59 +0000

> Premature horizontal scaling

I feel like this isn't a thing when it comes to applications. All the decisions you'd make to allow an app to scale sideways are just, like, good design decisions? Even if you never went 1->2 instances. Otherwise every app would just be PostgREST on top of a beefy VM.

New comment by vrosas in "Ok, but does it scale?"

vrosas — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:05:51 +0000

Major version upgrades, HA, multi-master, sharding and georeplication are all stories that are not as out-of-the box simple as they should be at this point, IMHO. Then you layer on all the ways devs tend to abuse postgres (stored procedures, pubsub systems, re-indexing hot tables, etc) that will need hours and hours of debate + meetings + committees + design reviews + more meetings to settle. When all along the team probably could have just written the data to something like Firestore and been, like, totally fine?

New comment by vrosas in "Ok, but does it scale?"

vrosas — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:56:22 +0000

I've pushed teams to choose Spanner over using Postgres (when already in the GCP ecosystem). It's not really more expensive when you sit down and do the math, you save untold hours of maintenance over the lifespan of the app, and it actually scales without fuss.

New comment by vrosas in "MapQuest app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario"

vrosas — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:39:03 +0000

People and the news doing a great job scapegoating Google instead of the administration that renamed it in the first place.

New comment by vrosas in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

vrosas — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:32:12 +0000

Give Cloud Run a try if you haven't. It's basically serverless done right.