andrew311

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   by andrew311 12y ago

   Yes, good point. This would provide effectively "infinite" backing storage. There might be some hurdles to overcome, though. For example, when you delete a file, will EBS know that the blocks are now free and thus can be decommiss
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   by andrew311 12y ago

   EFS is a great addition to AWS. We have SAN as a service via EBS, now we get NFS as a service. Great. The question (for me) now becomes "where do we go from here?" Infinite NFS is great, but what I've always wanted is infinit
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   The Next Big Thing for Data Pipelines(info.localytics.com)

   13 points by andrew311 12y ago|0 comments
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   The Cake Pattern: Self Type Annotations vs. Inheritance(andrewrollins.com)

   7 points by andrew311 12y ago|0 comments
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   by andrew311 14y ago

   Aside from asking about internal company details such as financing valuations, you should also do research on similar companies that are a bit more mature. Find out details on their financings, revenue, exits, etc. It'll give you some idea
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   by andrew311 15y ago

   Question about Composite Hash Keys that someone might have the answer to (or be able to relate to other known implementations): The composite key has two attributes, a “hash attribute” and a “range attribute.” You can do a range query withi
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   by andrew311 15y ago

   Thanks! Excellent advice.
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   by andrew311 15y ago

   This is true. If the assumption is that it's a private branch, then other people shouldn't care if you push -f because no one else should be using it. Sometimes there are cases where people want to pull a private branch because they are wor
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   by andrew311 15y ago

   I'm wondering how people address one of the scenarios raised in the post, specifically this: "It’s safest to keep private branches local. If you do need to push one, maybe to synchronize your work and home computers, tell your teammates tha
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    Optimizing MongoDB: Follow-up to my MongoNYC talk(engineering.localytics.com)

    13 points by andrew311 15y ago|0 comments
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    by andrew311 15y ago

    Michael, interesting presentation. I'm the guy that created the "Ops per second" slide included in the presentation. It was originally from my presentation at MongoNYC: http://www.10gen.com/presentation/mongonyc-2011/optimizing-m... I alm
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    by andrew311 15y ago

    This post is a great 101, but it doesn't provide much info on what kind of setup you run at Mixpanel. I see you ditched Cassandra, though, and you mention Riak. Are you using Riak, rolling your own sharding layer, or what?
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    by andrew311 15y ago

    I've done thorough testing on random read/write performance of ephemeral vs EBS, and I can tell you that EBS is waaaay better in the case of random IO. I can attest to the accuracy of the random IO performance in one of the references from
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    by andrew311 15y ago

    Boston, MA (Cambridge) Localytics http://www.localytics.com/jobs/ Full-time, Intern We're a funded, revenue generating startup located just blocks away from MIT. Our business is mobile application analytics. Our positions offer competitiv
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    The unspoken truth about managing geeks(computerworld.com)

    11 points by andrew311 16y ago|0 comments
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    by andrew311 18y ago

    Thanks to the Y Combinator startups for a great event.
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    "You’re ok if you bring a hacker." Recap of Boston Y Combinator Event(bostonstartups.org)

    4 points by andrew311 18y ago|2 comments
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    by andrew311 19y ago

    Do any of you who scrape fear retaliation from the sites you scrape? Maybe you are violating a ToS or scraping copyrighted text, and they cut off your IP. Thoughts?