I thought terragrunt was a must have for that kind of deployment.

I'm curious about that as well. I was told by coworkers that Hashicorp added support for DynamoDB which rendered terragrunt redundant but I haven't had time to look into it.

terraform {

  backend "s3" {

    region = "us-west-1"

    bucket = "foo-tf-us-west-1"

    key = "foobar.tfstate"

    dynamodb_table = "tf-lock"

  }

}

https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/s3.html#dynamod...

Awesome! Any idea when this was added? I feel like this wasn't in the documentation a week or two ago; everything had still said "Use Hashicorp Atlas for remote state locking".

I've been using it for weeks if not months.

Their documentation might be lagging occasionally. It's a small team tackling a big challenge.

You never disappoint. Thanks!

Is this in the critical path to enable Kubernetes to scale over 5000 nodes?

Every little bit helps, but no, etcd has not been an issue for Kube since 3.1. We already have a watch cache in the apiserver that supports large number of watches.

The issues right now are about optimizing how nodes communicate with the master for the tens of related resources used for pods (config maps, secrets, PVCs, etc). That's more classic optimization of how we batch that data.

I will say etcd 3.2 is fantastic because it removes the snapshot size limit for etcd2 - we've got Kubernetes clusters with 1-2Gb of etcd data and when the write rate gets high enough we are snapshotting so fast that if a member drops out you can't rsync the snapshot to the remote system fast enough to do a restore before the next snapshot hits. So this is a big win for us - thanks to the etcd team for getting that in at the last moment!

It doesn't seem very consistent. Lots of points in Latin America but when you zoom in, they are all gone.

I think you're just seeing a poor design choice: the purple dots they use to indicate cities with bike shares are very visible at the whole-world zoom level, but virtually impossible to see when you've zoomed in because they're the same size and in the same location as the map's default city marker.

Rosario Argentina seems pretty up to date looking at street level. But the city markers just disappear.

If AMD can implement x86 in hardware, why can't Microsoft implement it in software?

Intel & AMD have a patent cross-licensing agreement. The x86-64 instruction set was designed and first implemented by AMD.

AMD and Intel have agreements (mainly due to x64).

AMD has a (non-transferable!) license to do so.

I wonder if this kept AMD alive during the hard times.

x86 isn't going away for the next 10 years or longer.

Yup, Intel literally needs a competitor to keep out of hot-water with regards to anti-trust laws.

HN includes a much more limited crowd. I would theorize Reddit is a more realistic reflection of our society (not that we want to focus on that, so I'm not saying it's any better, quite the opposite).

Great! I'd just need a filter function to checkmark which tags I want to see. (preferably whitelisting, not blacklisting, so I can see something tagged with "science, programming", but not with "programming" only when I subscribe to "science".)

I wish I could fail like that.

Why do you think it's "fantastic" compared to the alternatives?

I have been using the new Skype For Linux app since their first alpha release and never experienced any of those problems. It lacks features but was never unstable for me.

Same here, until the recent weeks. Suddenly it started having issues where messages don't show up until I restart the client, while they show up fine on my mobile.

It's certainly a business move to make Linux experience worse, I doubt MS can't put some dedicated engineers and have a proper app.

Considering the Android app was just updated and it looks terrible, I don't think there's a conspiracy theory against Linux.