LaserToy

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by LaserToy 5y ago
We discussed writing a plugin for Trino to support Kubernetes operations. Was more like a fun thought experiment. Looks like someone built it...
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by LaserToy 5y ago
I manage data infrastructure. Recently, I found I don’t know how to name What we do as many the names are marketing and embarrassing BuzzWords. All we need is a database that can do analytical queries (and ideally OLTP) and can scale. We do
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by LaserToy 5y ago
I’m surprised anyone is surprised…
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by LaserToy 5y ago
For some reason I don’t relive in the sincerity of those apologies. You have an adult who acted as a* le for a whole life. They were told it multiple times. They saw other people cried. And now they finally apologizing when s* t hit thr fan
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by LaserToy 5y ago
I know. I worked on Presto :)
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by LaserToy 5y ago
The problem with Trino is that it is not that easy to scale to possible RPS of Clickhouse, it introduces tons a of latency and push downs are faaaar from perfect. Uber has a smart solution for Pinot, when they run it as a single node proxie
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by LaserToy 5y ago
I’m not the author, but yes it might. The regime is getting crazier and they eventually might start cleansing folks who said something online. Or their relatives. You just never know.
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by LaserToy 5y ago
I kind of agree. The only thing that matters for me is a cost of ownership in $$$ over some period of time.
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by LaserToy 5y ago
You didn’t have to do it, you know it right? I’m really curious how it is going to play out. I’m a bit concerned that our salaries will be slashed, especially if engs from other countries enter the wfh market
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by LaserToy 5y ago
It is matter of perception. All tools suck in some ways, all codebases are have bad stuff (except toy projects of obsessed perfectionists). We just deal with it :)
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by LaserToy 5y ago
So, you are stating that Java language is not applicable to any situation. Here is one: there is a database written in Java and you need to implement more features. There is 10000000 lines of code in the companies source and new code should
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by LaserToy 5y ago
Because preferences are based on emotions are not rational. I’m talking about picking a tool that does the job according to the requirements (speed, memory, debuggability), not based on what some YouTuber said. We are engineers and paid for
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by LaserToy 5y ago
Why would any reasonable person limit their choices based on a tool? Rust or Blast - whatever I really don’t care what language I’m using if it it doing the job. I use Java, Java Script, Go, Python, Scala when appropriate.
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by LaserToy 5y ago
I mentioned C as a language of choice. Cool kids are picking node js and esoteric Closure, not C
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by LaserToy 5y ago
I’m talking about the language, not frameworks. AOP sucks because it is paaaain to debug, proxies are magic. There is Dagger that solve some stuff
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by LaserToy 5y ago
Verbosity is not a problem in large code bases. Speed of understanding and debugging of what somebody else wrote is. So, less magic is better. I will take Java codebase over Scala or Python every time, unless it is a toy script which is 100
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by LaserToy 5y ago
Java is not hyped because it is a tool. Like a microscope, it just does what it supposed to do. IMO, if you want to get a descent job in a large company working on backend systems, you want to learn: Java, C/C++ or recently Go. You wi
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by LaserToy 6y ago
I had a similar feelings, even though the circumstances were different. I worked in medium sized companies for 7 years before getting into FAAMG. I thought I’m a decent SWE who knows patterns, processes and can deliver high quality code. Fi
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by LaserToy 6y ago
You will be surprised, but I saw the same behavior in the large tech company. Department either uses or loses the budget, so, there was a push to make sure nothing is left.
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by LaserToy 6y ago
I’m, I just not willing to wait for them. It also tells me that they are not interested in the company, and the best people both good and interested. And yes, it saves money (both hiring and motivated folks produce more) - no surprise here
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by LaserToy 6y ago
No, the offer might be good, but I’m just not willing to wait a month as there are other candidates in the pipeline.
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by LaserToy 6y ago
Had similar marathon 8 years ago and it is draining. Now, being on the other side (hiring folks for a startup), I would argue that some of flags are a bit misleading. Examples: “Undue pressure to accept an offer letter” - interviews are no
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by LaserToy 6y ago
Send it to Texas
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by LaserToy 6y ago
I’m the author, I’m not trolling and I gave examples. CloudSql is a misleading name and a bad product.
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by LaserToy 6y ago
Wow, is it google team that downvoting? Ok, here are some: if you resize your instance you will get a downtime. There is no support for CDC. You pay for multi master but failover is painfully slow If you launch more than one using terrafor
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by LaserToy 6y ago
Google Cloud Sql is a shit product. Ask me why.
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by LaserToy 6y ago
I changed my opinion of XML after I had to deal with yaml. Whoever thought it is a good idea for complex configs (kubernetes) was wrong
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by LaserToy 6y ago
I hope you folks know what you are doing. If your screw it up you will have a lot of angry former customers, us including. Maybe less aggressive rollout strategy?
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by LaserToy 6y ago
Why can’t pay taxes to an entity I prefer? Isn’t it a service? So, if some entity can give me healthcare, I will pay them If everything is free market, why do we need government? I know the answer, do you?
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by LaserToy 6y ago
I did read the book and i didn't find anything too toxic. Especially is you compare it to other industry giants (hello stack ranking and sports team mentality.)

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