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by atomic77 11y ago
CockroachDB is probably the closest system to spanner that I've come across (and built in Go) https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
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by atomic77 11y ago
I wanted to like this article. But this: > Considering the first point we decided to give up external caches like Redis, Memcached or Couchbase mainly because of additional time needed on the network. Even mysql+innodb can easily handle
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by atomic77 11y ago
For me, the answer for the given scenario was so straightforward and obviously "yes" that I wondered why a whole blog post was necessary? This now has me wondering if I am a bit more drunk on the container koolaid than I may have
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by atomic77 11y ago
Indeed, LXD would seem to be a faster, more efficient way of doing what you would do with traditional VMs. I don't see a lot of overlap with docker, despite the superficial similarity.
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by atomic77 11y ago
I certainly agree with the underlying idea, and maybe its not an apples to apples comparison, but Openstack would be an example of an open cloud platform that has failed to provide such benefits. Rackspace has largely abandoned the project
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by atomic77 11y ago
I kind of see where you are going with this, but perception may not be as important here as you are suggesting. To address your last 'if' scenario - notice that Amazon, as a large online retailer, had a compelling reason to offer
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by atomic77 11y ago
This makes sense. Perhaps Amazon hasn't come far enough along in that process, or, they see their proprietary designs as competitive advantage.
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by atomic77 11y ago
I haven't followed this project too closely, but, it seems interesting that it has taken this long for Google to join (and the conspicuous absence of Amazon). Anyone able to speculate on why now?
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by atomic77 11y ago
It's comparable to Chicago, perhaps a bit colder in the winter.
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by atomic77 11y ago
Fair enough. My only point is that salary is only one part of the equation when you compare a place like Montreal to the bay area - public services, being in a better overall state in terms of priority and financing mean that you don't
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by atomic77 11y ago
No question the salaries are lower, but two things balance that out. Income distribution is somewhat more even in Canada, so maybe you don't make as much but the people in 'lower' positions make more, relatively. This is actu
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by atomic77 11y ago
To address both comments - I didn't mean to suggest Montreal is the new promised land, just to add some discussion of non-US locations that may hold promise since the comments had been US-centric. Most tech people working in the US lik
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by atomic77 11y ago
In Canada, Montreal is a great city with reasonable living costs and a decent tech scene (esp game development). Climate will probably scare away anyone not originally from the east coast or midwest though. Toronto and Vancouver, despite ha
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by atomic77 11y ago
Seems like March has been quite warm in the eastern half of North America and Europe - not sure about other places.
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by atomic77 11y ago
Certainly it's the right direction, but, you have to wonder about a company that took until 2016 to realize that Linux was an important platform to support for an enterprise RDBMS.
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by atomic77 11y ago
With the unseasonable March temperatures, I actually thought April fools day had crept up on me...
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by atomic77 11y ago
Where this could be interesting is in cloud/VM environments where the block device may actually be mounted over the network. The performance improvement for fast devices cited in a link on the article [1] are pretty dramatic, but I won
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by atomic77 11y ago
Actually, further to your point, the documentation states this explanation of the default for random/seq_page_cost: "The default value can be thought of as modeling random access as 40 times slower than sequential, while expecting
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by atomic77 11y ago
AFAICT pgsql controls this with the random_page_cost and seq_page_cost variables [1], which are relative and seem to default to 4 and 1 respectively. It doesn't look like these are automatically adjusted though based on the hardware. S
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by atomic77 11y ago
This is a good point, what the article really should be discussing is the tradeoff between sequential throughput and random disk access, which is especially important on HDDs, for those unfortunate enough to still be working with things tha
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by atomic77 11y ago
Indeed, this is why the trend has been away from pure "nosql" solutions in the 2000s back to SQL-oriented systems. And not just in transactional systems but also batch processing, e.g. why would I write mapreduce code if I can jus
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by atomic77 11y ago
The telcos strike back - this could get very interesting. Another article [1] seems to suggest that this will clearly go against EU net neutrality rules, so it makes me wonder if they have something in their back pockets, or if this is a si
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by atomic77 11y ago
I would respectfully state that you have it backwards - the real problem is that "techies" are becoming ever more powerful as a group, this power is acknowledged, but we have not evolved an understanding of how to wield that pow
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by atomic77 11y ago
When did I say anything about either? I made a general statement about the effect of interest rates on borrowing, which, the last I checked, is equally applicable to governments as it is to private borrowers. In fact it seems you disagree w
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by atomic77 11y ago
Fair enough, luckily we're not there yet, but what's concerning is that the title of the article uses the words "way, way lower"!
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by atomic77 11y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Lowering rates encourage borrowing, is that not the point?
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by atomic77 11y ago
Negative rates are scary if they go low enough, where an inverse of the problems with high inflation come about. Rather than try to collect payments as fast as possible due to the eroding value of money, there will be an incentive to delay
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by atomic77 11y ago
Somehow this gives me the image of a "high functioning" meth addict discovering the rush delivered by this wonderful drug called heroin. Surely he'll keep things under control.
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by atomic77 11y ago
In my view, everything you need to understand the difference, culturally and economically, between Canada and the United States, follows from two important phrases found in the respective founding documents of the countries: "Life, Lib
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by atomic77 11y ago
For a qualified American, I think a NAFTA visa makes a lot more sense for the potential wave of American "trumpfugees" - first requires them to get a job (and still want to accept it after doing the conversion back to USD :) and a

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