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   by Boxxed 9y ago

   Completely mirrors my experience with Cassandra. I think they'd have a real contender on their hands if operating a cassandra cluster didn't basically take a full time engineer. Its backup story is absolutely abysmal, and tooling
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   by Boxxed 9y ago

   Yes please! A couple years ago I wrote a sql-like layer to federate queries across a couple different databases, with the intent of unifying the data we had spread out over postgres, cassandra and S3. The best decision I made was not writin
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   by Boxxed 9y ago

   One side benefit to removing the use of "eval" is that namedtuples will then be pickle-able. I'm surprised this hasn't come up: every now and then I hit some weird data I want to quick-and-dirty serialize but can't
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   Stop Worrying About Making the Right Decision(hbr.org)

   3 points by Boxxed 9y ago|0 comments
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   by Boxxed 9y ago

   I wish AWS autoscaling groups had a "recycle every machine" operation.
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   by Boxxed 9y ago

   Pretty sure this is the same Eugene Myers I had worked with a bit in the past -- he's the kind of guy who took, "Wow, this looks complicated," or "I'm having a hard time following this," as the highest sort of