I would really like you to clarify your intentions on serving non-HTML content.
I say this slightly nervously as a Cloudflare customer who serves some amount of binary data. One message is "it's ok if you're on a paid plan". Another is "it's not ok at any time". My suspicion is that "it's ok unless we notice you".
If you could come up with consistent understandable messaging that would help a lot. I don't mind paying (stay competitive against AWS and Hetzner and that's all I need) but the uncertainty is not good.
> I'm sure it would become evident that they know more about spam and anti-spam efforts than anybody else in existence
Really?
I can point you to Hard Problems that have been solved better at little startups than at Google - or, indeed, at any other bigco. That's why acquisitions happen.
Why does Google having 1000 engineers working on a problem automatically mean they are the smartest?
Mostly, headspace. If I run my own server, I just need to apply my existing Ubuntu sysadmin knowledge. If I use AWS, I have to learn a whole load of AWS-specific domain knowledge, starting with their utterly baffling product names. My time is more valuable than that.
Also, sheer cost. Literally everyone I know in my particular part of the industry uses Hetzner boxes. For what I do, it’s orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS.
I agree, I remember when I learned to use Google Cloud for ML training, it took so much time to learn how to setup everything and to go around all their gotchas. I then tried getting started with AWS, but their poor interface and unfamiliar grounds made me stick to using plain VPSs.
I have recwntly put together a K8S clyster out of old and bargain basement hardware for hosting personal projects. Equivalent perf. from big cloud would cost me $ 400++
Similar situation here but on a bandwidth level. A 1Gbps leased line costs me ~400 bucks a month and is unmetered even if I keep it saturated for the entire month. I don’t even want to imagine the cost of that on a cloud provider.
When you factor in storage, backups, and all the little support costs, things start to get pricey. Just the db can go from 500gb to a tb. Then all of that data came from somewhere and needs to be stored at least for a while.
Never mind the load balancing. And then we need another server for a different client, and another, and a demo server, and test & staging environments. Ugh. I wish this were on-premmable. We could probably hire an employee for the amount we could save. He'd probably be pulling his hair out supporting it tho. lol
My little on-prem HP dev server's got hundred gigs of ram and 8tb of fast storage. We run a bunch of VMs on there. We paid a couple of thousand dollars for it. And I don't even want to think of what it would cost to ship those VMs to the cloud. Nevermind just how poorly they would perform.
Whether some new technology is worth learning and using depends on your circumstances: would you gain more than it would cost? Understanding this isn't about being old, it's about being wise.
This is very similar to my experience. I recently measured the difference on my site as 10%-15% (also a non-tech site, though sadly not at $8m a year yet!)
While I don't enjoy the blog either (partly for the reason you cite, and partly for the unspoken assumption behind many posts that FAANG-like companies are a good thing and a good working environment), I wouldn't phrase it like that. There is enough misogyny on the internet that starting a critique with "I hate" is not going to get your point across lucidly.
>partly for the unspoken assumption behind many posts that FAANG-like companies are a good thing and a good working environment
Sorry for sidetracking, but are they not good working environments (note this is a separate question from whether they're a good thing)?
I've been planning to try to get a job at one of the FAANG companies, and have basically assumed it would be a good working environment based on the reputation, the perks offered, and my prior experience at another very large tech (but not exactly FAANG) company, which was that the working environment was generally very good there though I didn't really like how that particular company operated in the marketplace.
> "Sorry for sidetracking, but are they not good working environments (note this is a separate question from whether they're a good thing)?"
Depends heavily on which team you join within a company. FAANGs are not monoliths; they are collections of business units cooperating (or sometimes not) with quite a bit of variation in culture and work-life balance.
They have to offer perks because they will work you very hard. You will learn a lot, but you will almost certainly face a lot of stress too. For some people this isn't worth it.
Sorry if it came across as this way, this has nothing to do with her gender. I would have said the exact same thing even if it was a male author and I mean it.
That article is from 2013. You can set a master password on Chrome now. It then requests that password whenever you wish to view a password in the manager.
If you don't set a master password, then your passwords are (presumably) encrypted with your google account. So anyone using Chrome that's logged into your google account will be able to view the passwords via settings. So just don't let malicious users use your Chrome?
Edit: And there's also a guest mode for Chrome, but they can just exit out of the window and run a regular instance of Chrome to use it under your profile.
I say this slightly nervously as a Cloudflare customer who serves some amount of binary data. One message is "it's ok if you're on a paid plan". Another is "it's not ok at any time". My suspicion is that "it's ok unless we notice you".
If you could come up with consistent understandable messaging that would help a lot. I don't mind paying (stay competitive against AWS and Hetzner and that's all I need) but the uncertainty is not good.