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kurtle 🐢
@mrkurt
willing food taster at Fly.io
Chicago, IL
Joined November 2007
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    We open sourced Corrosion, the tool we built to replace Consul. It started as gossip based service discovery. If you want to win buzzword bingo: Corrosion is built with Rust, CRDTs, and sqlite.
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    Why do startups write announcements like these? We went back and forth on it. There are lots of reasons, most of them dumb. fly.io/blog/we-raised…
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    Oh no, Heroku is killing their free tier. Whatever will I do.
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    This is an annual reminder that vCPUs are not cores.
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    Hello internet! If you live in a location where dumbass founders try and exploit you with low pay, you should know that Fly.io pays US market rates everywhere. And we're hiring: fly.io/blog/fly-is-hi…
    A friend just got offered $10,000/year pay from a US company because he is an Engineer based in Nigeria, and it was called location-based pay, Please as a company, don't do this; ask the right questions to the right people first.
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    Replying to @natfriedman
    There's a world of difference between a top down deathmarch, and people pouring their energy into something because they believe. When a PM at Twitter is posting "sleep in your office" virtue signaling, it seems very deathmarch.
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    big win at the office today
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    Fly.io: run apps close to your users, built by people close to your users.
    Team members in 11 different countries
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    Today is a day. I've needed better object storage for, like, ten years at this point. Tigris shipped it and we're baking it into Fly.io apps. 🔥 fly.io/blog/tigris-pu…
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    Object storage backed block devices are now in preview on Fly.io. community.fly.io/t/bottomless-s…
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    98% of my git commits don't do anything except try to make CI work.
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    Rails: build a list of entries in a database in about 10 minutes. Phoenix + LiveView: build a list of entries in a database with live search in about 10 mins. HTML over websockets is badass.
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    Take my money gosh darn
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    Giving some FKS today. This is actually really cool. We're running nodeless K8s, each pod is a dedicated Firecracker VM. Which means you'll be able to safely run multi-tenant workloads in FKS.