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Out of curiosity, what have you moved on to now that you don't do browser coding?
by Graffur 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what have you moved on to now that you don't do browser coding?
- snewman 5y agoAfter leaving Google I founded scalyr.com. To get an idea of the type of work we're doing, this old blog post holds up: https://www.scalyr.com/blog/searching-1tb-sec-systems-engineering-before-algorithms/ https://www.scalyr.com/blog/searching-1tb-sec-systems-engine....
- rossjudson 5y agoKids these days usually don't understand exactly how fast hardware actually is. ;) "I have 200 million entries in a table I need to compress. I'm gonna write a flume job! I estimate it will take 5 minutes to start the job and a half hour to run! Then I'll spend a few days figuring out how to shard it so it actually finishes." "Sounds good. But I also have this bit of Java code here that does the same compression on my desktop in about 30 seconds. Would you like that instead? You could convert it to C++ if that would make you feel better." yellowbrick.com did some neat stuff pushing the query algebra down into the flash storage firmware.