Thursday, May 4, 2023

I told you the move to microservices was a bad idea.

The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs.

Amazon, Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%

I’m moving my local backups from Time Machine and Backblaze to Arq Backup (Premium). Time Machine has been unreliable and I find Arq more configurable and approachable than Backblaze. So far I’m still using Backblaze B2 to backup the Synology.

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Prepending creation date to selected files using AppleScript (macOS) I try to name all of my files using the file’s creation date as a prefix. For example: 20230504-MyNewFile.txt If I forget, it’s a pain to rename

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023 It’s cute how each tiny new social network with like 47 users thinks it’s “not going to be full of dickheads like on Twitter”. Arc’s concept of