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by avifreedman 11y ago
Don Feith is a great guy. He was a gentleman and took time to answer my questions about the business world (and the Unix-y one in particular) in the 80s and 90s. Hope his business is doing well, and if they're hiring I'd definit
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by avifreedman 11y ago
avi @ kentik is my email but I'll ping you. So HW profiles can include IOPS and throughput testing, disk space, etc? The 24x7x100% is more of a concern re: not restarting all VMs at once, or at least being able to specify subsets and r
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by avifreedman 11y ago
Hi, looks interesting... Some questions: All based on what we do at Kentik, where we run a large distributed column store with high speed data ingest layers feeding it, and a relatively more easy core cluster of portal/high-level metad
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by avifreedman 11y ago
Me too, Perl most days, C most weeks.
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by avifreedman 11y ago
6809 for the win over both, by far!
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by avifreedman 11y ago
Good advice... In our case (@kentik), we're mainly focused on having a Dremel-like system accessible via FDW. Primarily we're using Postgres as the "API" to it, so if it dies as a result of an FDW bug it'd be a pri
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by avifreedman 11y ago
Worst case it helps you focus on what/why and explaining your startup. Best case you get in. Worst case just continue. In fact, if you wouldn't start the company without getting into YC, you probably should re-think whether you
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by avifreedman 11y ago
What did you do the recording in?
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by avifreedman 11y ago
We'll loop detect to end the mutual admiration society, but thanks from you makes my day :) I just tweeted a pointer to "Doing Terrible Things" and suggested people read all of the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe".
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by avifreedman 11y ago
Sorry, ran out of bits. At least I didn't go signed.
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by avifreedman 11y ago
(Background: I'm a Usenet user from the late 80's to early naughties, did outsourcing at netaxs as newsread.com, then ran readnews.com from 2004-1024). Usenet is still around but mostly for binaries. The market's of pretty s
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by avifreedman 11y ago
To be successful, you need to put in the work to enable yourself to take maximum advantage of getting lucky. And luck = right product, right time, right tech, right people, and of course just luck.
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No bubble here (Marketing Private Jets to startups)
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by avifreedman 11y ago
So interesting... flow (first NetFlow) has been around since the mid 90s but it's always been a volume problem relative to the (single) computers of the day. The big issue we kept hearing from folks from the notes community is that th
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by avifreedman 11y ago
Hi, Avi Freedman here, CEO of Kentik (formerly CloudHelix). Thanks for the mention, Ryan... And for being a human vulnerability scanner for netaxs back in the 90s :) Re: data backend and analytics - happy to discuss... A poster we did ea
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by avifreedman 12y ago
Please introduce him to us at CloudHelix (avi @)... Always looking to meet wizards as long as they are of reasonable ego:clue ratio :)
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by avifreedman 12y ago
Great article... Semi-related - who is the cartoonist? Can anyone (or Jason if following) xlate the signature?
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by avifreedman 12y ago
Cool. Would be interesting to see if that comes up as a common request; we have found the ability to do real-time and historic to be interesting for query-ability for system data. Have you seen the other neat functionality about the Akamai
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by avifreedman 12y ago
marpaia, Did you consider using OpenTSDB? At CloudHelix, we did a Postgres FDW to OpenTSDB, which gives a time dimension as well. That was an issue at Akamai - how to get historic as well as realtime with Akamai's Query system ([WARNIN
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by avifreedman 12y ago
I set up a number of small companies in the Philadelphia area with Foxbase running on Xenix with terminals on each desk connected to a cheapish PC. Much cheaper than Netware and separate PCs!
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by avifreedman 12y ago
It wasn't the Florida Internet Exchange. FLIX was Fat man Little man Internet eXchange. I was the fat man (I used to be more engineer sized). Vinny Bono was the little man. I (AS 4969 of old) never actually connected to it though...
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by avifreedman 13y ago
CloudHelix is in beta with a portal and data platform for network visibility and control - top talkers, dDoS detection, and mitigation hooks. http://avi.net/ch-device.png (device overview) http://avi.net/ch-
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by avifreedman 13y ago
Are you good at seeing the products that need to be created? Writing 'running specification' code (hacking things up)? Do you understand the product space well? Who owns product? Is this something you do or could do? How good
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by avifreedman 13y ago
There was also the GIMIX, and of course later the Radio Shack Color Computer. A (ugh single 5.25" floppy) SWTPC 6809 system was my first "home" computer system. Flex was a great simple operating system. Anyone remember Fran
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by avifreedman 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Local (SF Bay area) or remote. PROJECT: Front-end assistance with graphing interface for real-time and historic network traffic statistics. WHO WE ARE: CloudHelix is doing a modern network visibility and control platfor
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by avifreedman 13y ago
Assuming the disk footprint is small... Would recommend a new SSD-based ZFS box (Samsung 840 Pros have been great even for pretty write-intesive load), with raidz3 for protection and zfs send (and/or rsync from hourly/N-minute sna
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by avifreedman 13y ago
Gluster should by design I think avoid replicating filesystem metadata corruption (but would replicate internal metadata issues in files on top of the filesystem) but DRBD won't... At high volumes I still regularly break Gluster but i
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by avifreedman 13y ago
A friend of mine is a director at Netflix. He was explaining to me that compensation vs retention are different conversations there. They want to pay people market+ for A players, but if you're not at the level expected, you'll b
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by avifreedman 13y ago
The magic of the magazines from that era is that they were full of articles from people showing "look what I did with my computer!" Dr. Dobbs from that era vs the current or even worse, last decade's, shows the difference. So
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by avifreedman 13y ago
For those talking about sequels, FYI... There is a WarGames sequel on Netflix but I made it 3 minutes in before abandoning. Can anyone recommend it?

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