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by Nican 6y ago
Oh! Actors is one of my favorite paradigms of lately. I have been reading plenty about Akka as well. When I start looking into the subject further, I start falling into a rabbit hole of how Actors are sometimes treated as a database, that i
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by Nican 6y ago
My personal guess: A queue calls into an external 3rd party service, but the external service is not transactional, so it can receive and store the request, but before it finishes executing, it throws an exception and returns an error code.
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by Nican 6y ago
That was my initial guess as well, but I can not imagine where in the pipeline that would occur. A customer might request more than 1 card, but it does not explain the wildly different expiration dates, and different delivery dates.
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by Nican 6y ago
Albeit, now it makes me wonder how much of the functionality of dolt is possible to be replicated with CockroachDB. The internal data structures of both databases are mostly similar. You can have infinite point-time-querying by setting the
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by Nican 6y ago
I love the idea of this project so much. Being able to more easily share comprehensible data is an interest of mine. It is not the first time I have seen immutable B-trees being used as a method for being able to query a dataset on a differ
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by Nican 6y ago
Thank you for taking your time to write that up. To illustrate my point a little more: Suppose a customer has several resources, and each resource has several metrics. From my understanding, Materialized could be used to have an aggregated
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by Nican 6y ago
Materialize is a really interesting solution, and I love for what it stands. But the documentation is missing more details about the architecture overview. A single update could cause many gigabytes of data to shift on the materialize view,
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by Nican 6y ago
Why was there not an upper limit on the price that customers are willing to pay? This seems to fall in the same category of AWS customers accidentally having bills enough to bankruptcy.
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by Nican 6y ago
It is not the first time that I have looked at IPFS and I still have a hard time understanding how the ecosystem is going to work. From my understanding, the file hash is basically the file URL, such that any change to the file content is a
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by Nican 6y ago
Also not a lawyer, but I find the language in the license pretty interesting and ambiguous choice of words. > [...] where obtaining access to the Elastic Software or the features and functions of the Elastic Software is a primary reason
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by Nican 6y ago
That is a name I have not seen in a long time. I remember when I use to game with Ventrilo/Teamspeak/Mumble about a decade ago. For anyone who still uses Teamspeak today, what do you use it for?
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by Nican 6y ago
Out of curiosity, as I have no visibility about the infra actually required- but at that cost, would it not be easier to just have a machine under a desk somewhere?
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by Nican 6y ago
I currently use btrfs with RAID1 at home, and it works great. But btrfs also does not have the track record for being the most stable filesystem as compared to ZFS. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627032414
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by Nican 6y ago
dRAID looks really fascinating, but presentation is pretty abstract. Would it allow to add/remove drives from a pool, and allow ZFS to rebalance itself? Would be great for home use, where I have a lot of drives that I collected over th
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by Nican 6y ago
I really wish that the US voting system did not rely on strategic voting, in which voters are basically forced to choose the lesser of two evils. I am a huge proponent of ranked choice voting, and I donate to https://www.fairvote
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by Nican 6y ago
I have been out of the loop of IPFS. I know IPFS mostly deals with data distribution, but last I checked, it did not have any mechanisms for data durability. Has anything changed on that front?
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by Nican 6y ago
That is pretty interesting. I used to love developing with the Source Engine, and I found their code base to be stable and easy to read. I hope TC2 gets the long term support and care that it needs to grow a healthy community. I worked on e
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by Nican 6y ago
I might be wrong here, but can someone comment on the process required to add additional nodes on Vitess? Every time I start reading about Vitess, I fall into a hole about manual resharding, hosting multiple vitess instances per host (I thi
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by Nican 6y ago
I will have to take a look Slonik. I feel like I have been to hell and back with ORMs, between Sequelize, Entity Framework, Hibernate, SQLAlchemy, etc.. and frankly, I think they just cause more headaches than solve problems. I would love t
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by Nican 6y ago
grpc-web is attractive to our use case because it would take away from manually implementing REST interfaces and every once in a while having type mismatches. The less room for mistakes, the better. .NET Core just recently last month that g
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by Nican 6y ago
Yeah. I am being very cautious about their desires. I learned that the best way to discourage someone from taking a large project is to show how much work it would be. Just shutting down developers is not nice.
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by Nican 6y ago
I come from a C# background, but to list out a few hurdles that I have already deal with with TypeScript/NodeJs. 1. C#'s AsyncLocal has made a few things simpler to trace SQL queries to a request. 2. We chose to use hapi.js
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by Nican 6y ago
There is an advocate on our team that wants to migrate our web service from Nodejs to Rust. While I am not a huge fan of Typescript, at least libraries are readily available and generally easy to use. On the other hand, being able to show t
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by Nican 6y ago
While the implications are huge, it is hard to think about what is actually being done. XML and JSON are just languages, and the type of information could be stored in any number of ways. In my point of view, the problem here is that you co
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by Nican 6y ago
Not going to lie, playing Crysis was a lot of fun, and I never knew this was the underneath function running it.
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by Nican 6y ago
This is on the front page again. Please take some time to read this wonderful function: https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/blob/release/Code/CryEng... EDIT: That whole function is a minefield. Just
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by Nican 6y ago
Doing a quick google search, there are claims of "6,000 tweets per second in 2020", or about 6 tweets per millisecond. The blog posts mentions there is an edge case for getting more than 16 tweets per millisecond. Rather close mar
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by Nican 6y ago
If I remember correctly, every time a tweet is made, a fan-out operation is made, adding the tweet to each of the follower's timeline. I would think the app just needs to remember the position on their own timeline?
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by Nican 6y ago
Stackoverflow's DBA had just posted about this: https://twitter.com/tarynpivots/status/1260680179195629568 He has 564,295 tables in one SQL Server. Apparently this is for "Stack Overflow For Teams"
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by Nican 6y ago
> While your relational database queries slow down as your data grows, DynamoDB keeps on going. It is designed to handle large, complex workloads without melting down. I mean- hand a person a gun, and they might shoot themselves in the f

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