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A short, high-tech, sci-fi, horror story written on the evening of January 25,
2018.
There was a guy who got in a quarrel with his girlfriend, and she kicked him
out of her apartment without even throwing his clothes out the window for him.
So there he was, naked on the street, not knowing what to do. Out of
necessity, he grabbed a tablecloth from a restaurant, draped himself with it,
and started to go home, trying to look as if everything was normal and under
control.
In a Windows Domain, and you don't want the domain admins messing with it.
Not in a Windows Domain, and you just don't want useless services running.
In this case, what you probably want to do is prevent the Group Policy Client Service from running on your machine. Unfortunately, that's not a straightforward task to accomplish, because if you go to "services" and try to stop or disable this service, Windows doesn't let you.
Here is how to do it.
These instructions have worked for me on Windows 7; they might also work on other versions of windows. If there is anything in these instructions that you don't quite understand, what it means is that these instructions are not for you; don't try to follow them, you are going to wreck things. Ignore this post, move on.
Using regedit go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\gpsvc and:
Change the owner to yourself.
Grant Administrators (not just you) full control.
Change the value of “Start” from “2” to “4”.
Now go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Winlogon\Notifications\Components\GPClient and:
Change the owner to yourself.
Grant Administrators (not just you) full control.
Delete the entire key. (Possibly after exporting it so as to have a backup.)
Greg Young - The Long Sad History of Microservices
From the "Build Stuff" event of April 2017.
Talk begins at 9:45.
Highlights of the talk:
27:00 Placing a network between modules simply to enforce programmer discipline
29:05 There is other levels of isolation I can go to. I can run a docker container per service. That's the coolest stuff right? What that means is I can make it work on my machine so I send my machine to production.
29:52 Now, one thing that's very useful is I don't necessarily want to make this decision up front. And I don't necessarily want to make the same decision in dev as in production. I may want in dev to have a different way that we run things, why? because bringing up 19 docker containers on your laptop is not very much fun. I may prefer to host everything inside a single process to make debugging and such a lot easier when I am running on dev in my laptop. Whereas in production we may go off to multiple nodes.
34:16 If you have maintenance windows, why are you working towards getting rid of your maintenance windows? Is this a business drive or is this you just being like C.V. driven development?
My notes:
Unfortunately his shrieky voice makes him sound like he is bitching about things, which in a sense he is, but it would help his cause to deliver his criticism in a more palatable tone. Also, in order to make his point about microservices being nothing new he seems to disregard statelessness.
Besides the delicate grumpiness which is gratuitously scattered throughout this blog like the golden rays of light in a gentle sunset, there exist a few blog posts which have been written with the express purpose of venting out some major grumpiness.
Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) otherwise known as Globally Unique
Identifiers (GUIDs) are 128-bit numbers that are often used to identify
information. In its canonical representation, a UUID looks like this:
2205cf3e-139c-4abc-be2d-e29b692934b0.
The Wikipedia entry for Universally Unique Identifier (⬀) says that they are for practical purposes unique and
that
while the probability that a UUID will be duplicated is not zero, it is
so close to zero as to be negligible. Wikipedia then does the math and shows that if 103 trillion
UUIDs are generated, the chance of duplication among them is one in a
billion.
Despite the infinitesimally small chances of receiving a duplicate UUID, there
exist programmers out there who are afraid of this actually happening, and who
will not hesitate to suspect duplicate UUIDs as being responsible for an observed malfunction rather than first look for a bug in
their code. Clearly, these folks do not understand the meaning of
infinitesimally small chance, so let me try to explain it:
Infinitessimally small chance means practically impossible to happen, and the practically part is only mentioned for scientific correctness: practically, you can disregard the word practically and consider it as simply impossible to happen.
