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by avthar 5y ago
Timescale team member here. We take our responsibility to build a rock-solid platform very seriously. We have multiple "levels" of product within Timescale. At our core, we have the open-source database, TimescaleDB. This product
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by avthar 5y ago
The point of the blog post is that Timescale cloud isn't totally "serverless", because for some 20% of use cases, you do want to think about nodes and other database internals. From the blog post: "So today’s serverless
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by avthar 5y ago
Generally speaking, if it works with Postgres, it works with Timescale. Hasura even has documentation on how to use TimescaleDB with Hasura [1]. That said, I'd be curious to hear about other folks experiences. Disclaimer: I work at Tim
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by avthar 5y ago
Timescale employee here. While we do offer plans starting at $24/month [1] on Timescale Cloud, it's worth noting that DO Postgres (and other hosted Postgres solutions) are providing an undifferentiated open-source solution, while
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by avthar 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I haven't read that one yet.
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Books for Ambitious Young People(avthar.substack.com)
8 points by avthar 5y ago|2 comments
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Amor Fati: Love your fate(avthar.substack.com)
2 points by avthar 5y ago|0 comments
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Everything Is a Skill(avthar.com)
1 points by avthar 5y ago|0 comments
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by avthar 5y ago
I read a bunch of books by Mr De Bono as a teenager, including "Six Thinking Hats" and "Lateral Thinking". As math and science nerd interested in creativity, it really gave me a different way to think.
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by avthar 5y ago
Cool dataset! I wish there was a similar dataset for Premier League football (or even international soccer). Does anyone know of a good resource?
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Founders: Be wary of your information diet(avthar.substack.com)
2 points by avthar 5y ago|0 comments
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How to cleanse your information diet(avthar.substack.com)
1 points by avthar 5y ago|0 comments
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by avthar 6y ago
Wish we had classes like this back when I was doing my CS degree. Not saying that algos/ theoretical / systems stuff isn't valuable, but if you want to build anything that reaches real customers, then knowing how to build for
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by avthar 6y ago
I'm curious about advice folks would give for remote YC final interviews vs in person ones?
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by avthar 6y ago
Timescale employee here. We generally update our benchmark blogs every year to keep them fresh. No doubt you'll see the updated results here on HN as well!
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by avthar 6y ago
Apologies, I did so elsewhere in the thread. I work at Timescale!
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by avthar 6y ago
I know there's thousands of startup resource lists on the internet today. I tried to make this one different from drawing on my experience founding a startup. I'd be curious what other resources you'd include to prospective o
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What to read before starting a startup(avthar.substack.com)
2 points by avthar 6y ago|1 comments
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by avthar 6y ago
Hi valyala (cofounder of VictoriaMetrics) — I know we’ve talked about this several times before already, so you should know — those benchmarks you linked are from 2018. They pre-date many key features in TimescaleDB, including features like
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by avthar 6y ago
If you're an InfluxDB user looking to migrate to a more reliable and solid database, here's a tool [1] that allows you to do that in a single command: [1]: https://www.outfluxdata.com
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by avthar 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying, OP's original comment refers to TimescaleDB vs InfluxDB hence the comparison blog between the two. As you note, a comparison between InfluxDB IOx and TimescaleDB is not possible at this time, due InfluxDB IOx
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by avthar 6y ago
For perhaps the most comprehensive comparison between InfluxDB and TimescaleDB see this blog post [1] which compares the two DBs on data model, query language, reliability, performance, ecosystem, operational management, and company/co
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by avthar 6y ago
This is misinformation. Most of TimescaleDB is open source under Apache 2. The difference is that the advanced features of TimescaleDB - Eg clustering - are under a source available license and are free, while advanced InfluxDB features lik
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by avthar 6y ago
Guilty as charged - much of my writing is processing my own thoughts and reminders to myself. My thinking is far from perfect and very much a WIP
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by avthar 6y ago
Thinking back to my teenage and college years, what "smart people" like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, said was important to work on guided the interests of myself and my friend group. I don't think we were alone in th
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by avthar 6y ago
It's something I picked up from Naval Ravikant (@naval on Twitter) [1] "Marc Andreessen came up with the concept of the “product-market fit.” I would expand that to “product-market-founder fit,” taking into account how well a foun
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by avthar 6y ago
I'd also add, be aware where you've outsourced your thinking, otherwise it can come back to bite you in the long run.
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by avthar 6y ago
Spot on, I think awareness of where you've outsourced your thinking is most important, vs not doing it at all. The startup example was one where I wasn't aware that I'd outsourced my thinking and it came back to bite me in th
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I don't care what Elon Musk thinks anymore(avthar.com)
59 points by avthar 6y ago|66 comments
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by avthar 6y ago
Had no idea about POSSE -- thanks for the intro!

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