frew

4 years agodiscuss

I don't believe so, but we target everything in the Webkit ecosystem (Chrome, Edge, Safari), so Firefox would be the only odd browser out.

frew

4 years agodiscuss

The fundamental motivation for the app id concept is that part of the value that InboxSDK provides is cushioning the developer from version conflicts, both from Gmail updates and from multiple extensions that all use InboxSDK. So we use app ids + a custom error reporting mechanism to aggregate anonymized error reports in order to figure out incompatibilities + reach out to the developer as appropriate.

You're welcome to make the app id opaque. Also feel free to file an issue for making a setting to disable the app id - definitely not opposed to adding it as an option given interest.

-Fred

Eng @ Streak

frew

4 years agodiscuss

It does! That was actually one of the motivations for open-sourcing.

frew

4 years agodiscuss

Cost was definitely a consideration (although not the only one) in deciding whether to store all created links vs. just a blocklist.

Once we got to a mode where we were only doing computation per request, the raw cost is pretty minimal since there's not much CPU time either way.

frew

5 years agodiscuss

This is impressive! For folks who are worried about what this says about App Engine's security - historically the JVM level sandboxing was one part of an overall sandboxing story (not surprisingly, very similar to Chrome's setup) and my understanding, although haven't been on the team for a decade at this point, is that the JVM-level restrictions have been effectively replaced by a gVisor-based solution.

frew

6 years agodiscuss

Except it is: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...

frew

7 years agodiscuss

It looks like the play here is to get a bunch of small, committed workloads that GCE can move around where they've got spare capacity. On-demand pricing is very similar to the existing n1 type, but 1yr committed discounts are 30%+ cheaper.

More details from when I was working through it: https://twitter.com/fredwulff/status/1204861220165017600

frew

7 years agodiscuss

Streak | YC S11 | Engineering Manager | Vancouver, BC & San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Onsite

Streak is hiring our first dedicated engineering manager who will be directly responsible for some or all of our engineering team (currently ~15 engineers, distributed between product, infrastructure, and mobile).

  * Problem: Make Gmail powerful for all businesses
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  * Stack: Java, Kotlin, Golang, React, all the modern JS tooling - built on GCP, largest user of Google Cloud Spanner

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