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What is Shakti? I’ve spent 20 minutes browsing around and nowhere does it tell me, so I have no idea what the context of this even is. EDIT: Ok, I found it: ht

What is Shakti? I’ve spent 20 minutes browsing around and nowhere does it tell me, so I have no idea what the context of this even is. EDIT: Ok, I found it: https://shakti.com/ https://shakti.com/ although I’m still unsure what it does. I guess some kind of stream processor database.

chrispsn 7y ago
Shakti k (k9)! https://shakti.com/ https://shakti.com/ How to install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19Ef9v2uVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19Ef9v2uVI
anentropic 7y ago
Millions! Billions! Trillions! Sounds totally Web Scale
- dkersten 7y ago
  Yeah, I didn’t find the website particularly informative, just a bunch of marketing hype. I’m still a bit confused by what it does, how it works, how it can achieve those numbers (and benchmarks to prove it can), what the failover story is, etc etc
  - chrispsn 7y ago
    The Shakti co-founder's previous tech was a very fast time series language+DB - this is his next iteration. https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html
7thaccount 7y ago
APL was created by Kenneth Iverson (array based programming language still in use today in production at places like Volvo and sold by Dyalog APL) and Arthur Whitney (APL genius) made several APL like languages for banking/financial analysis applications in the late 80's in 90's to make super efficient stock ticker analysis apps. He funded kxsystems which is a very very fast memory mapped database technology that uses the "K" language which is like APL, but uses ASCII instead of Unicode glyphs. He made zillions of dollars then left again to make another company (Shakti) which uses a new version of his language. He writes a new one from scratch every few years. The "K" executable is tiny (something like a few dozen pages of C written in an extremely unusual style). This guy explains it well although is a little zealous: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgotten-empires-apl-languages/ https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgo...

chrispsn 7y ago

Shakti k (k9)! https://shakti.com/ https://shakti.com/ How to install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19Ef9v2uVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19Ef9v2uVI

anentropic 7y ago

Millions! Billions! Trillions! Sounds totally Web Scale

dkersten 7y ago
Yeah, I didn’t find the website particularly informative, just a bunch of marketing hype. I’m still a bit confused by what it does, how it works, how it can achieve those numbers (and benchmarks to prove it can), what the failover story is, etc etc
- chrispsn 7y ago
  The Shakti co-founder's previous tech was a very fast time series language+DB - this is his next iteration. https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html

7thaccount 7y ago

APL was created by Kenneth Iverson (array based programming language still in use today in production at places like Volvo and sold by Dyalog APL) and Arthur Whitney (APL genius) made several APL like languages for banking/financial analysis applications in the late 80's in 90's to make super efficient stock ticker analysis apps. He funded kxsystems which is a very very fast memory mapped database technology that uses the "K" language which is like APL, but uses ASCII instead of Unicode glyphs. He made zillions of dollars then left again to make another company (Shakti) which uses a new version of his language. He writes a new one from scratch every few years. The "K" executable is tiny (something like a few dozen pages of C written in an extremely unusual style). This guy explains it well although is a little zealous: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgotten-empires-apl-languages/ https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgo...