Patrick Russo

Disclaimer: At some point (perhaps mid-2021), AWS seems to have disabled Spot as an option for P-class instances. It may be possible to request a limit increase [https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-2#Limits:] to run a P spot instance. See notes on instance types

There was a recent Axios article about how government benefits will be a drag going into 2022 [https://www.axios.com/stimulus-government-spending-covid-pandemic-0b79bdb4-e812-4085-ae2b-404cd7b9a1f4.html] . However, this ignores the fact that the largest increase in government transfers, the economic impact payments took place in Q1/Q2, and expanded unemployment benefits ran out

There was a recent Axios article about how government benefits will be a drag going into 2022 [https://www.axios.com/stimulus-government-spending-covid-pandemic-0b79bdb4-e812-4085-ae2b-404cd7b9a1f4.html] . However, this ignores the fact that the largest increase in government transfers, the economic impact payments took place in Q1/Q2, and expanded unemployment benefits ran out

For the indices below, we compare to December 2019, just before the pandemic. Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis | Explore the data on OpenAxis [https://app.openaxis.com/visualizations/2191]Durable goods cost 12.0% more in December 2021 than they did in December 2019, while non-durable goods and

I debated with myself on whether or not to share this. As a user I don't like tracking and block it when I can. But a new startup needs to understand what their users are doing and big companies surely have workarounds in place already...  So here goes. First -

Self-hosting services on EC2 instances can come with unexpected behavior. If the service is hosted using Nginx, it typically expects a "Host" header. If you have Cloudfront between the EC2 instance and the internet (e.g., for caching, delivery, etc.), Cloudfront won't forward the "Host" header by default. In Cloudfront

While EC2 Instances are great for running services, the price can add up - especially if you need access to a GPU (e.g., for deep learning). I have a batch process I run daily that takes over an hour on a P2 instance (updating https://8020news.com/today). This

The Bitnami AMI worked great!But, If you want to use Cloudfront, make sure to forward the headers Origin and Referrer as described here [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/9972]. Without it, you'll get an error like "Request made from incorrect origin. Expected 'https://blog.russo.nyc [http://russo.