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A great "how would you architect X" is Uber. Lot's of hidden complexity.


There is an example in the blog post about DigitalGlobe.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte...


Plus one to di.fm. They've been around forever and have great channels.


Do you work for GCE? You've made this exact same comment twice on the same link. Do you have any examples or links that back up the 50% cheaper point? As well as the trade-offs for switching to GCE? We run on GCE, Heroku, and AWS.


No, I don't work at Google. I work for Monsanto. Here is my take on AWS vs Google: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10O1YeNpPjylHLugEz8GI...

Performance benchmark summary: ("1X" is AWS)

Compute:

VMs Price: 30% less

Boot time: ¼ X

Network between VMs: Same region: 4X Across regions: 10X

BigQuery vs Redshift : ½ -20X

Big Data (Hadoop and Spark): 3X

Disks: Read throughput: 1X Write throughput: 4X (Ephemeral); 2X (Persistent)

Local SSDs: Read throughput: 8X Writes throughput: 4X

Storage (S3): Throughput: 2X Latency: 3X (initial); ½ X (for subsequent reads)


Monsanto is actively damaging the future agricultural possibilities of the entire world with their business practices and how they sell their seeds. Creating seeds that we can way over dose with poison?


"Pricing is based on device minutes, which are determined by the duration of tests on each selected device. AWS Device Farm comes with a free trial of 250 device minutes. After that, customers are charged $0.17 per device minute. As your testing needs grow, you can opt for an unmetered testing plan, which allows unlimited testing for a flat monthly fee of $250 per device."

From the FAQ[1] which albeit was a bit buried.

edit: It is also at the bottom of the landing page now.

1: https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/faq/


> a flat monthly fee of $250 per device.

That's a bit steep? You could recoup any iOS device in <= 3 months.


thanks!


Apple uses Riak for this.


Not sure why this was downvoted. This was the story out of Basho last I heard. (Well, lot's of hints like "Some fruit company you may have heard of uses it like this").

Perhaps this is now out of date?


Yup. Out of date.


Congratulations to them! It's a pretty fantastic tool. We use it for incident management for our customer care department as well as engineering.

But why does the link go to the comments...?


Thank you very much! And fixed :)


I am running beta 4 (14A298i) on a mid-2013 11" MacBook Air. It sometimes loses the WiFi connection, but reconnects automatically. I've noticed the laptop will restart itself with PowerNap turned on, and plugged into an external display and external drive. Turning off PowerNap seems to fix it. Everything works pretty well. Handoff is a little funky, but you'll probably not be running iOS 8.


Director of Engineering at ShopKeep here. Happy to answer any questions. We're also hiring (like everyone). Checkout our careers pages[1].

[1] http://www.shopkeep.com/careers


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