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   by avinassh 3y ago

   > The biggest leap forward in HTTP clients for Python in years why so? what are the problem it addresses?
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   I did something similar six years ago called gg-flip for npm - https://github.com/avinassh/gg-flip It was submitted in HN too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194932
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   This post reminded me of Fly's shipping the DB idea [0]. It sounds crazy, but works beautifully for use cases. Instead of data, the caller gets the replicated SQLite itself and may do whatever it wishes to do. [0] Skip the API, Ship Yo
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   I understand it is faster on RAM, but I am asking why IOW what makes it faster to access sequentially on SSD
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   what about sequential vs random reads?
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   > To sum up, the key takeaway is to prefer sequential access wherever we can. For spinning disks, this is obvious. But why is sequential access faster on SSDs?
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   I love the design and the site. but.. I am not liking the recommendations. I consider The Midnight Library to be one of the worst books I have read this year, but it has highest ratings in Sci Fi beating Project Hail Mary By Andy Weir and K
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   checked the live demo here - https://prakgupta.com/blog/moving_away_from_substack looks quite sweet!
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   by avinassh 3y ago

   I skimmed through the article, still I don’t get it what makes it so fast that it can beat other KV Stores. Does it use a B Tree / LSM / Bitcask? Or something else entirely? How does your storage engine compare with sled? The stor
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    > Skytable's primary goal is performance and scale. Even with a query language it can outperform K/V stores which use simple commands (benchmarks will be shared in another post). How does Skytable achieves this? In other words,
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs can be read from or written to individual files on disk using fread() or fwrite(). Furthermore, a single SQLite database holding 10-kilobyte
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    What were the reasons to move from Redis to Ristretto? Both seem to be very different, since Redis is distributed where as Ristretto is local to the process.
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    I checked both the issues mentioned, people have been respectful and showing empathy to author's situation https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/issues/91 https://github.com/minimaxir
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    eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel (official documentary) [video](youtube.com)

    6 points by avinassh 3y ago|0 comments
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    Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)(calculusmadeeasy.org)

    265 points by avinassh 3y ago|60 comments
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    Have you benchmarked your solution with the plain Write lock? Can share, if you have done so?
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    How Rama is tested: a primer on testing distributed systems(blog.redplanetlabs.com)

    1 points by avinassh 3y ago|0 comments
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    This looks excellent! Thank you for building it.
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    Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods(encore.dev)

    16 points by avinassh 3y ago|0 comments
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    It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python(avi.im)

    6 points by avinassh 3y ago|3 comments
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    Congrats on the launch! How does the sync between Postgres / SQLite works?
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    This looks very cool! how is autocomplete feature implemented?
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    > In some universities it is an assignment to directly read and write sqllite files from disk and understand the paged and blocks structure. do you have any links?
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    This is nice! I am enjoying it so far. Earlier, I was trying to find Postman alternatives and I went back to Postman because of UI quirks. I found couple of issues with RecipeUI Following is the curl command I got from Postman export c
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    enable Tap to Click, your RSI will thank you.
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    The Advantages of Flexible Typing(sqlite.org)

    4 points by avinassh 3y ago|0 comments
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    What's wrong with TDD
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    This is interesting! How does polyscale works, especially this part: > PolyScale automatically and intelligently caches or invalidates data close to where it is being requested.
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX... MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&
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    by avinassh 3y ago

    this looks very beautiful, are there any similar libraries in Go/Rust?