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by agacera 9y ago
I use and recommend metabase and redash. Metabase is more polished and easier for business folks. But redash supports more data sources (hive for instance). Both are open source and in my opinion can fill about 80% of dashboards and ad hoc
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by agacera 9y ago
hey, Kile. Thanks for the awesome work you do. completely off-topic: have you ever thought about giving your training ( https://jepsen.io/training ) in an online way (mooc, udemy, whatever)? I would love to learn about distri
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by agacera 9y ago
Confluent only officially supports the Java client (and now has a Python, Go and .Net clients as well that I didn't know) and it is really recommended to use the client with the same version of broker due to protocol incompatibilities.
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by agacera 9y ago
I can think in some circumtances: 1 - You already have a Redis infrastructure and don't wanna or don't have resources to deploy a full Kafka infrastructure (3 kafka brokers + 3 zookeeper nodes) 2 - Kafka clients are not available
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by agacera 9y ago
Probably it is needed to check if the row is still visible to that transaction.
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by agacera 9y ago
in the beginning of September a chinese guy was arrested for selling VPN software. you can try ways to bypass the great firewall, but it is against the law to do that, and in China it is a good idea to follow the law. http://theh
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Ask HN: Recaptcha-like system to help train ML models
2 points by agacera 9y ago|0 comments
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by agacera 9y ago
If you are already invested in Redshift this is a really nice feature to have. I used to work in an environment where only data for the last few months was stored in Redshift (to save costs since storage is expensive). Whenever someone need
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by agacera 10y ago
If you are already invested in aws I suggest you to use the firehose + s3 to store data and use the Athena to query it.
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by agacera 10y ago
Postgresql is awesome, best open-source RDBMS by far, but MSSQL is more advanced. This is expected since hundreds of developers are being paid by Microsoft to work full-time on it. For OLAP use cases it is years ahead of Postgres.