Location: The Buccaneer Pub & Restaurant
Year: 2015
Amazon EC2 t2.nano instances
If you thought t2.micro was a tiny machine, I have news for you – Amazon announced t2.nano instance type. It features 512 MB of RAM, 1 vCPU, and up to two Elastic network interfaces. Price for on-demand instance – $0.0065 per hour.
This instance type is perfect for small websites, developer and testing environments, and other tasks which don’t require a lot of resource.
GitHub redesign
About a month ago, GitHub revealed its redesigned interface. It gets better and better with every iteration. But this time also got a feeling of deja vu, whic took me a while to figure out. And finally I did. The navigation menu went from right side to the top. And it’s not the first time it’s there.
Here is a link to the Refactoring GitHub’s Design blog post (I linked to it before), which explains some of the design decisions and the menu on the right. Among other things, there’s a screenshot of how things used to be before. Have a look.
It’s not identical, but it’s pretty close.
Pint
Location: THE SHIP INN BAR/RESTAURANT
CPU Steal Time. Now on Amazon EC2
Yesterday I wrote the blog post, trying to figure out what is the CPU steal time and why it occurs. The problem with that post was that I didn’t go deep enough.
I was looking at this issue from the point of view of a generic virtual machine. The case that I had to deal with wasn’t exactly like that. I saw the CPU steal time on the Amazon EC2 instance. Assuming that these were just my neighbors acting up or Amazon having a temporary hardware issue was a wrong conclusion.
That’s because I didn’t know enough about Amazon EC2. Well, I’ve learned a bunch since then, so here’s what I found.