slight off topic: I used DO LBs for a little while but found myself moving away from that toward a small droplet with haproxy or nginx setup. Worked much better for me personally!
The point of an LB for these projects is to get away from a single point of failure, and I find configuring HA and setting up the networking and everything to be a pain point.
These are all low-traffic projects so it's more cost effective to just throw on the smallest LB than spend the time setting it up myself.
I use the LB's for high availability rather than needing load balancing. The LB + 2 web back-ends + Managed DB means a project is resilient to a single server failing, for relatively low devops effort and around $75/mo.
I have a couple of instances of this same pattern for various things that have been running for 5+ years, none of them have suffered downtime caused by the infrastructure. I use ansible scripts for the web servers, and the DO API or dashboard to provision the Load Balancer and Database. You can get it all hooked up in a half hour, and it really doesn't take any maintenance other than setting up good practices for rotating the web servers out for updates.
They wouldn't survive DO losing a DC, they're not so mission critical that it's worth the extra complexity to do that, and I don't recall DO losing a DC in the past 10 years or so.
They did stay up during this outage, which was apparently mostly concentrated on a different product called the 'global load balancer', which ironically is exactly the extra complexity I mentioned to in theory survive a DC outage.
Keep in mind these are "important" in the sense that they justify $100/mo on infra and monitoring, but not "life critical" in that an outage is gonna kill somebody or cost millions of bucks an hour. Once your traffic gets past a certain threshold, DO's costs don't scale that well and you're better off on a large distributed self-managed setup on Hetzner or buying into a stack like AWS.
To me their LB and DB products hit a real sweet spot -- better reliability than one box, and meaningfully less work than setting up a cluster with floating IP and heartbeats and all that for a very minimal price difference.
> An open standard for the world to use for this seems like the ideal way you would want it to happen.
I get the convenience part. I am from Sweden. We have BankID. I really get it.
But in reality, when centralized systems go to shit, they go to shit REAL BAD. So I personally oppose any such measures on both principles but also... it's okay if life is a little bit less convenient. Not everything needs to be ultra optimized for efficiency. Privacy and systemic integrity is worth at least that much imo.
The Netherlands has had a standard for authentication, which is supported by all government organizations, many insurance companies, etc. for 21 years and it only got better with time. I also strongly prefer it over the shitty, broken authentication systems many government organizations, companies, etc. come up with otherwise (we lived in Germany for a while and the crappy systems we had to deal with were endless). Or even worse, let some FAANG company do the authentication.
This is the core problem with PHP for me.I love PHP and use it every day. Part of that is the strength and versatility of the arrays implementation (i.e. hashmap). However, the problem is always the fact that an array cant be typed.
IF they could just introduce that, it would solve 80% of user-land issues over night.
That is some A grade FUD. You know the article is going to be good when the tag line is:
> If you don't want Elon Musk to feed your tweets to his AI, now might be the time to leave the app formerly known as Twitter.
Ok. Time to leave google because Google is training its AI on your search queries. What about Facebook? Gmail maybe? eff it, we gotta exit Windows too soon enough.
The whole AI data training thing is inevitable. If you're worried about your data, don't put it out there to begin with. Even if whatever platform you're using guarantees that it won't use your data for AI training, it will be scraped with or without said platform's permission.
HiQ vs. LinkedIn is the lawsuit that says scraping content behind a login wall is illegal, so with a very big if, you can prove the content scraped was behind a login wall, then you have the starting of grounds for a lawsuit.
The funny thing about what you just said is that it has nothing to do with the parent comment. He's talking about BS extradition charges due to global political influence, and your response is: RUN CHARACTER_ASSASSINATION.EXE
I must say, your statement was so profound and effective that you've totally convinced me. Assange is a piece of shit and therefore we should do away with all laws and cater to the whim of your tribe.
Well I'm happy they consider it modest and stable because most people I know consider economists insane and unstable.
> $1 in 1924 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $18.37 today, an increase of $17.37 over 100 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.95% per year between 1924 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 1,737.28%.
> This means that today's prices are 18.37 times as high as average prices since 1924, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index. A dollar today only buys 5.444% of what it could buy back then.
This is at a time where technology is making everything cheaper mind you...
That's intentional, to incentive people investing their money instead of stuffing it in their mattress, where it doesn't help anyone. As long as wages raise as well, it's not a problem. You shouldn't compare prices to prices 100 years ago, but purchasing power 100 years ago to purchasing power now.
>>As long as wages raise as well, it's not a problem. You shouldn't compare prices to prices 100 years ago, but purchasing power 100 years ago to purchasing power now.
>Wages don’t seem to have raised at the same rate at all.
Figure 1 from that link is compares actual income with "projected assuming no growth in inequality"... whatever that means, not inflation.
Figure 2 compares hourly compensation with productivity, not inflation
and on and on...
Real wages (ie. inflation adjusted) has gone up, albeit slowly[1]. Even your link suggests this. "Stagnation" implies staying in the same place, not falling behind.
yea yea we've all heard it. your spending is my income therefor I get to steal your wage from you if you don't spend it. "we'll encourage consumerism by taking the money from them if they don't spend it"
Sometimes I wonder how people have come to accept this line of thinking as anything but malicious.
As to your second point, yes. PP is more important, so let's use that. I'm sure the picture will look a whole lot better... /s
I think an (insane and unstable) economist would say that technology is indeed making everything cheaper, and as a result the average person's buying power is increased. Since buying power has increased, demand has gone up for all goods and services, and since demand has gone up prices have risen.
Why does the price of things today vs 1924 matter? Do you have a store of cash from 1924? Is there actually a downside of this steady long-term inflation?
So we all came together, agreed on a shared store of value, then said no one can "poof it" into existence, and then gave said power to only a single entity that now makes more of it without doing anything and we're all supposed to think "that's normal".
It's not theft, but it's not that far off from it. But at this point, we've normalized things like "taxes" anyways, so peoples' definition of theft doesn't align with reality, so why would it be different when it comes to printing of money.
Everyone is just post-rationalizing about this because they can't cope with the logical inconsistency of the world they live in.
No, I get paid in 2024 dollars that are unadjusted for inflation (see mostly static wage growth since the 70s). But.. That's fine and all. As long as those that got paid in 1960s dollars got to have a society in where they can accomplish so much with those dollars at my generation's expense.
I'm happy we're looking at dollars as cars. "This is a 1924's dollar model and that is 1960s one". Makes you really wonder how crazy we are as a society to view our output denomination like that.
>No, I get paid in 2024 dollars that are unadjusted for inflation (see mostly static wage growth since the 70s)
This implies that if inflation wasn't a thing, you'd somehow be able to keep your pay raises (including any inflation adjustment), which seems doubtful.
For certain classes of goods that's arguably true. If you check the inflation categories you'd see that mass produced goods have actually gotten cheaper, but services involving people (eg. tuition or healthcare) has gotten more expensive.
The price of housing is one of the biggest drivers of cost of living in the US. The constraint on housing supply is primarily political (codes and zoning) not technological.
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