Why? It's major feature is full MySQL 5.6 compatibility. If anything this is probably one of the few Amazon AWS exclusive products that has zero lockin - next to options of say, DynamoDB.
But agreed, I'm excited by this. Have had really good experiences with MySQL on RDS so far - the auto-scale of storage and ability to add read replicas with near real time sync is very cool.
If you were going to go the whole hog, slap the entire MIME type name in the extension :) Otherwise I don't think 3-4 character file extensions have really let anyone down in the history of computing.
It's very handy for development instances of your apps/services too. Often nicer/faster than using Vagrant if that's your bag.
Something I plugged together recently - a W3C HTML5 validator instance in a Docker container: https://github.com/magnetikonline/dockerhtml5validator proving to be really useful vs. my old method of spinning this all up in a VirtualBox instance.
It's great for tab-completion of remote paths for scp & friends.
It does have a few quirks though. One that I've noticed is (IIRC) that closing a shared session isn't sufficient to pick up new groups membership when you reconnect. You actually need to kill the master connection as well[0].
The syntax for shutting down a master connection is a bit clunky as well:
ssh -O stop -S ~/.ssh/mux/socketname hostname
I've been meaning to make a little script or 2 that finds the current mux sockets and tests them with -O check and give you a list of simple IDs you can 'ssh-mux-kill $id' or something. In fact, it'd probably be a nice use for percol[1]
[0] There might be other ways of refreshing group memberships, but I don't know of any.
Agreed - I have had one for years with adjustable T-Legs. Being over 6 foot, needed a desk I could get the height correct and they are perfect for that.
The table top is starting to get a little crappy with some of the finish bubbling off due to my constant resting of hands so will just need to purchase a new one at some point - but no real rush.
Very sturdy desk overall, it's small - but with monitor arms for 24 and 17 inch displays I have more than enough desk room for keyboard/mouse and notepad.
I do something similar with Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 which uses Dnsmasq via the NetworkManager service. These steps help make Dnsmasq a little more useful - reading /etc/hosts and allowing it to listen on your hosts IP address for use in guest VM's
But agreed, I'm excited by this. Have had really good experiences with MySQL on RDS so far - the auto-scale of storage and ability to add read replicas with near real time sync is very cool.