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by akshayshah 1y ago
git-spice does everything I liked from Graphite, but it’s fully open source and easy to adopt piecemeal. https://abhinav.github.io/git-spice/
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by akshayshah 1y ago
No, it was S3 becoming strongly consistent in 2020: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/aws-s3-strong-consistency...
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by akshayshah 1y ago
This is especially interesting because Multigres is being led by Sugu Sougoumarane, one of the Vitess co-creators and Planetscale co-founders - so the two projects are growing from the same soil, so to speak. https://youtu.be&#x2
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by akshayshah 1y ago
Full agreement from me that jitter is essential. Here’s AWS on good retry policies: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/timeouts-retries-and...
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by akshayshah 1y ago
Earthly has pivoted away from their CI/CD products: they’re shutting down Satellite, and they’re stopping active maintenance of the Earthly open source project. https://earthly.dev/blog/shutting-down-earthfiles-clo
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by akshayshah 1y ago
In the US, it’s typical for hospitals to provide and launder scrubs used in sterile environments (especially surgical scrubs). However, scrubs are worn in many non-sterile environments too - and it’s often the employee’s responsibility to l
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by akshayshah 2y ago
I claimed that Google is the only major cloud provider with all three of: - single-zone object storage buckets - regional object storage buckets - transparently replicated, dual region object storage buckets I agree that AWS has two of the
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by akshayshah 2y ago
The cross-region replication I’ve seen for S3 (including the link you’ve provided) is fundamentally different from a dual-region GCS bucket. AWS is providing a way to automatically copy objects between distinct buckets, while GCS is providi
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Sure, but AFAIK S3’s multi-region capabilities are quite far behind GCS’s. S3 offers some multi-region replication facilities, but as far as I’ve seen they all come at the cost of inconsistent reads - which greatly complicates application c
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Very cool! This makes Google the only major cloud that has low-latency single-zone object storage, standard regional object storage, and transparently-replicated dual-region object storage - all with the same API. For infra systems, this is
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by akshayshah 2y ago
To someone who hasn’t worked much with XML, this seems like a reasonable take! For cases where a host system wants to execute user-defined data transformations safely, XSLT seems like it might be useful. When they mature, maybe WASM and WAS
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Em- and en-dashes have been well-supported by LaTeX, the smartypants family of Markdown extensions, and plain HTML for more than 20 years. In your support, though, calling the extension “smartypants” really hints at the target audience :)
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by akshayshah 2y ago
It’s certainly possible to gain that fluency, as Reginaldus demonstrated. But it seemed to me that fluency reading unfamiliar texts simply wasn't the goal of my Latin education; instead, we were studying to know Catullus, Ovid, Horace,
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by akshayshah 2y ago
I had the chance to attend some of Father Reginaldus’s summer school in 1999, and it sparked a lifelong love of Latin. The article did a wonderful job capturing the verve that Reginaldus brought to the material. I’ve always imagined the Rec
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Second-year high school students do read actual Roman texts, but they typically do so very slowly and laboriously - a day’s homework might be translating a single paragraph. I studied Latin from 7th grade through my early undergraduate year
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Apart from being backed by Postgres instead of MySQL, is this different from Vitess (and its commercial vendor PlanetScale)? https://vitess.io/
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by akshayshah 2y ago
It sure looks like they’re going quite a ways beyond Kafka-on-Pulsar - the Ursa/Oxia work they’re focused on right now replaces BookKeeper and seems very firmly Kafka-oriented. Or does Ursa also work with the Pulsar protocol?
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Couldn’t agree more - the most exciting thing about KIP-932 is how much easier it’ll become to build a good HTTP push gateway. Uber wrote a Kafka push gateway years ago, when it was considerably harder to do well: https://www.ube
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Even StreamNative is effectively abandoning Pulsar and going all-in on the Kafka protocol. I can see the theoretical benefits of Pulsar, but it just doesn’t seem to have the ecosystem momentum to compete with the Kafka juggernaut.
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by akshayshah 2y ago
It’s not obvious from the website, but Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand started work on Upspin after stepping back from the Go team. I suspect that many of the folks early to Go have at least occasionally checked in on Upspin. I’m sad to see thi
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by akshayshah 2y ago
South Bay Systems: https://lu.ma/southbaysystems SF Systems: https://www.sfsystems.xyz/
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by akshayshah 2y ago
There’s the Valkey fork, which is now evolving independently. Microsoft’s Garnet and Dragonfly are independent implementations that are pretty different under the hood.
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Earthly is a very similar idea too.
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by akshayshah 2y ago
It’s interesting that the author now works on TigerBeetle (written in Zig). As I understand it, TigerBeetle’s style guide leans heavily on this style of resource management.
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by akshayshah 2y ago
It’s an ourobouros of influences: the Husky creators left DD to make Warpstream, Warpstream inspired Quickwit, and now Quickwit is joining DD.
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Incremental HTTP Messages(datatracker.ietf.org)
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by akshayshah 2y ago
Batshit crazy. (I just can’t help myself!)
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by akshayshah 2y ago
No, that's not the case - there's a standard to how protoc exposes plugin options as CLI options that doesn't require the compiler to know about each plugin. It's obtuse, annoying, and badly documented, but it's the
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by akshayshah 2y ago
James Mickens is a comedic genius. The linked article always makes me laugh out loud. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
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by akshayshah 2y ago
The whole FlatBuffers toolchain is wildly immature compared to Protobuf. Last I checked, flatc doesn’t even have a plugin system - all code generators had to be upstreamed into the compiler itself.

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