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by bbulkow 9y ago
Aerospike Founder here. Does anyone care that, after working with Kyle and generating since new versions through the development process, Jepsen found no real consistancy problems? ie, “In hundreds of tests of SC mode through network partit
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Amadeus uses community in production, they recently published a blog about it. I believe Rubicon project does too. Expiration works great for a lot of data sets, compared to explicit deletes.
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Because if you talk to your friends and family about it, their reaction will be to shun you, and tell you to get professional help. Professional help is very unsophisticated. Standard psychoanalytic talk therapy has very low success rates.
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Sure, @aphextron. I think right-minded people will agree that there shouldn't be separate praise & calling-out @ labeling. As a white male, I cringe too. Yet - how to we get to inclusion and equality? The path of simply being fair
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by bbulkow 9y ago
I think you're missing the point of the discussion. When you have women who are excluded and hit on and passed over simply because they are women, they come up with all kinds of solutions, including raising awareness that there are gre
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Interestingly, for some people, letting go of the money without a fight is psychologically wrecking as well. It can eat away at you, make you question yourself. The question in my mind is what kind of person are you, or if you have someone
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by bbulkow 9y ago
You build a metaoptimizer. The metaoptimizer decides which new layers are necessary, and whether the cost of "buying new neurons" ( adding compute instances & storage ) is worth the benefits to the high level optimization func
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by bbulkow 9y ago
This. CyanogenOS couldn't make money, and WF has trouble making money, because everyone else subsidises the cost of the handset and software by selling data. If you want to provide what they claim - unparalleled security and privacy -
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by bbulkow 9y ago
I take the complaint as different: he _can't_ replace the dialer. WileyFox replaced the dialer with one that snoops, presumably WF was paid compensation for the switch, the poster can't uninstall or change. While WF's choice
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by bbulkow 9y ago
One thought. A company like WileyFox must spend significant bucks to provide after-the-fact engineering to provide updates. It would be a classic error to underestimate the cost of ongoing engineering, and provide a lower up front cost, the
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Do you know that to be true? Or is it that paper and/or ink blocks scanning and you can hide bombs in it?
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Yes, I think there are clear user-level approaches you can ( and must ) take. There are some interesting talks out there about NAND, how it works, and how to optimize - I saw something here on HN a few days ago about writing your own time-s
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by bbulkow 9y ago
The truely humongous buyers, like Amazon / Google / FB, certainly don't buy dell anymore, also don't buy software from people like Aerospike. Medium-size companies ( say, box, or AppLovin, or PayPal ) buy software, have
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by bbulkow 9y ago
There are only 3 forms of bit storage, historically. 1) Poking holes in things ( tape, DVD, etc ) 2) Magnets ( core memory, drum memory, tape, disks ) 3) Circuits ( DRAM, NAND, etc ) Examples of all three of these still exist. What's i
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Aerospike CTO here. We did a lot of testing with this drive, and the interesting bit is that performance doesn't degrade under write pressure. With a NAND drive, when you push writes high ( usually needed in front-edge / microserv
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Who are their investors, or if you can't name names, are they seed or angle or self funded or what?
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by bbulkow 9y ago
Is anyone considering doing a fork of the Riak repo, or considering starting development outside of the Basho fork?
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by bbulkow 10y ago
Some of us have technical details, and put them out during the press event. The fact that Intel is staying high level is annoying, I admit, but they want "the community" to speak up, when you start using these drives. I have teste
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by bbulkow 10y ago
1. It is faster than an SSD - at low queue depths, or if you are writing a lot - in its Optane NVMe form factor. 2. In the NVMe form factor, it supports older CPUs. 3. In the DIMM form factor, it will be far, far faster than NVMe, but intel
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by bbulkow 10y ago
This. I have to hire another company, in order to monetize twitter, because twitter doesn't give me the tools itself. The other companies do a good job.
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by bbulkow 10y ago
Twitter does need to continue engineering. It needs to do exactly one thing: re-order the timeline so that coming to Twitter becomes fun and engaging again. Right now, when I open Twitter ( mobile or desktop ), I have a huge flurry of rando
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by bbulkow 10y ago
Scylladb and Couchbase are both codebases run by companies that have free versions, just like Aerospike. If you don't like our model, you shouldn't like their model.
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by bbulkow 10y ago
Too bad Rethink couldn't find a business model and vanished. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649414
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by bbulkow 10y ago
Look, I'm biased because I'm the CTO of Aerospike, but we do give a free and unlimited open source edition, and our enterprise customers save a _TON_ of money compared to Cassandra, because we're not bottlenecked on CPU, and
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by bbulkow 10y ago
According to Aerospike's internal numbers, 40% of our paying users are on Amazon. It certainly does work in that environment, provides huge benefits compared to DynamoDB. You just have to change a couple of tuning parameters, and build
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by bbulkow 10y ago
For the record, Aerospike has no association with RedHat. RedHat took someone else's work ( Linus and the Linux community ) and commercialized it. They provide a useful service, but the RedHat money may or may not go to the developers
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by bbulkow 10y ago
To everyone who has used RethinkDB for free and now wants the product of the company to be released to open source for free use: Don't you see this is self fulfilling? Don't pay for databases, database companies close. Or, you can
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by bbulkow 10y ago
Founder of a (non YC) database company here. Founding companies are hard, databases are really hard, and we're in the middle of a shakeout in the database industry. At Aerospike, we really, really focused on paying customers early. We
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by bbulkow 11y ago
I have found exactly that: Lyft drivers are happier. I had an Uber driver coerce me into rating him a few weeks ago, while I was in his car. He had a BS reason for wanting the rating now, it was just a ploy to get 5 stars. He was also insan
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by bbulkow 11y ago
While some of those Crucial drives are Micron and pretty reasonable, please beware of comparing "consumer drives" and drives from 2012 / 2013 with today's drives. The real problem with drives is their firmware has to gar

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