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A little burned out at work

I’ve been at my startup for a year and a half or so, and things are looking up, but I’m pretty tired and need some time to decompress. I’m currently writing a lot of code that had to get rewritten … Continue reading

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use nginx caching if you’re already using nginx and are serving data that doesn’t change frequently

we have a lot of slow APIs at work that are just returning the same information the majority of the time. one API in particular takes 3-6 seconds to return because of all the data it’s fetching from the db … Continue reading

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postgres tuning

i was raising the max connections to postgres to 1000 and: * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:2012-09-04 23:51:06 PDT FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument2012-09-04 23:51:06 PDT DETAIL:  Failed system call … Continue reading

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Proxiesforrent scam

I’ve been emailing proxiesforrent for almost a year now… Here’s my last email subject: PLEASE cancel my account, it’s been almost a year since I’ve tried to cancel… body: Hi, I’ve been trying to cancel for almost a YEAR NOW….This … Continue reading

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Parallel deployment to ec2 instances in python

this is the side project i’m working on now. so far i can get X instances up of a given AMI Y with whatever tags Z you want on them and some DB records of these instances. after the isntances … Continue reading

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