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> Lisp allows us to scale dramatically and manage a large code base. Wow, really? How big is your company? > Right now, in our core company we have three peo

> Lisp allows us to scale dramatically and manage a large code base. Wow, really? How big is your company? > Right now, in our core company we have three people, two here in Virginia and one in Mexico City.

p_l 5y ago
Sounds like scaling developer power all right. Reminds me of quotes from Google SRE materials about scaling "SRE per managed server count".
thorweur234 5y ago
You know Google's flight scheduling software runs on Borg right ? After they acquired ITA, they have few openings in between, and are yet, apparently, one of the biggest consumers of quotas.
- the_optimist 5y ago
  What's a quota?
  - dataangel 5y ago
    I think he means they one of the biggest consumers of cluster resources. Each group within google probably has a quota for how many resources they are allowed to use. It's unclear here if their consumption is so huge because they are successful or inefficient though...
    - math-dev 5y ago
      Does anybody know what they actually do? I see them mentioned all the time but I don’t get it. Is it just flight information or do they do pricing analysis and other stuff
      - p_l 5y ago
        QPX (ITA's, and now Google's) system is responsible for calculating and searching airfares, i.e. the complete "solution" for "I want to get from A to B with those constraints". It's what responds when you ask google flight for a route, essentially. This is quite computationally complex due to many dimensions involved in airfare calculations. This system is essentially implemented on top of SBCL with some small bits of C++ (responsible, IIRC, for handling memory-mapped airfare data files).
        math-dev 5y ago
        Thanks!!
the_optimist 5y ago
Seem's like you're trying for sarcasm with the rhetorical question, but it's unclear. Scale what? Team size?
sitzkrieg 5y ago
oh no no, scale only means hiring tons of programmers after winning funding rounds in these parts
- pphysch 5y ago
  Apparently, scale means LOC of Lisps (or LOL, if you will).

p_l 5y ago

Sounds like scaling developer power all right. Reminds me of quotes from Google SRE materials about scaling "SRE per managed server count".

thorweur234 5y ago

You know Google's flight scheduling software runs on Borg right ? After they acquired ITA, they have few openings in between, and are yet, apparently, one of the biggest consumers of quotas.

the_optimist 5y ago
What's a quota?
- dataangel 5y ago
  I think he means they one of the biggest consumers of cluster resources. Each group within google probably has a quota for how many resources they are allowed to use. It's unclear here if their consumption is so huge because they are successful or inefficient though...
  - math-dev 5y ago
    Does anybody know what they actually do? I see them mentioned all the time but I don’t get it. Is it just flight information or do they do pricing analysis and other stuff
    - p_l 5y ago
      QPX (ITA's, and now Google's) system is responsible for calculating and searching airfares, i.e. the complete "solution" for "I want to get from A to B with those constraints". It's what responds when you ask google flight for a route, essentially. This is quite computationally complex due to many dimensions involved in airfare calculations. This system is essentially implemented on top of SBCL with some small bits of C++ (responsible, IIRC, for handling memory-mapped airfare data files).
      - math-dev 5y ago
        Thanks!!

the_optimist 5y ago

Seem's like you're trying for sarcasm with the rhetorical question, but it's unclear. Scale what? Team size?

sitzkrieg 5y ago

oh no no, scale only means hiring tons of programmers after winning funding rounds in these parts

pphysch 5y ago
Apparently, scale means LOC of Lisps (or LOL, if you will).