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High-Availability Feature Flagging at Databricks(databricks.com)
9 points by bcongdon 8mo ago|0 comments
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Escargotic Commotion: The Internet of Snails(benjamincongdon.me)
2 points by bcongdon 6y ago|0 comments
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by bcongdon 6y ago
Thanks! This comment was super helpful. :) I made a couple updates to the post with these findings. I suspected something like the `ff` labeling approach would improve the solution, but I had no idea how much of a difference `all_different`
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by bcongdon 6y ago
https://benjamincongdon.me/blog I like to write about productivity, Go/Rust, and my various web development projects. I also tend to write pretty frequently about programming language ergonomics. Popular posts: * http
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I’m Done with Food Delivery Services(brooksreview.net)
4 points by bcongdon 7y ago|0 comments
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Solving “Wordscapes”(benjamincongdon.me)
1 points by bcongdon 7y ago|0 comments
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Hedonic Treadmill(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by bcongdon 8y ago|0 comments
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by bcongdon 8y ago
Pricing depends a lot on how much memory your job requires[1] and how much processing each record requires -- i.e. the pricing is more sensitive to usage. As a very rough estimate, for a light-to-medium load of 1Tb, the cost would probably
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by bcongdon 8y ago
Yeah, max execution time (and max memory usage) are the main constraints of using Lambda. Corral deals with this by splitting input data into small enough chunks that each chunk can be processed within the timeout -- I exposed options for s
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by bcongdon 8y ago
Hi HN, author here. Corral is my attempt at a performant, easy-to-deploy MapReduce. Unlike traditional frameworks like Hadoop, it uses AWS Lambda for execution and is “serverless” as a result. It was initially kicked-off by AWS adding Lambd
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Show HN: Corral – A Serverless MapReduce Framework(github.com)
92 points by bcongdon 8y ago|36 comments
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Introducing Corral: A Serverless MapReduce Framework(benjamincongdon.me)
1 points by bcongdon 8y ago|0 comments
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Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)(frankchimero.com)
144 points by bcongdon 8y ago|20 comments
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by bcongdon 9y ago
The iOS app has been pretty good (if a bit buggy and slow), but the desktop web interface is so bad to the point that I haven't used it in over a year -- and I use myfitnesspal daily.
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“Happy Little Words” – Analysis of Twitch's Bob Ross Marathon (2015)(stevelosh.com)
1 points by bcongdon 9y ago|0 comments
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by bcongdon 9y ago
This is so cool! I've been following Inconvergent's work ( https://twitter.com/inconvergent ). This seems like something I might be interested in. Thanks for sharing!
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by bcongdon 9y ago
Cool! I've been looking for something that does just this
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Show HN: GitTrophy – Create a 3D Printed Model of Your GitHub Contributions(gittrophy.com)
2 points by bcongdon 9y ago|0 comments
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by bcongdon 9y ago
Unfortunate that this doesn't apply to "The Pragmatic Programmer". Still, very cool show of support against DRM.
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by bcongdon 9y ago
Hi HN, This is a project I've been working on for a while now. It's a hobby horse to try new technologies, but I've really enjoyed working on it. I'm a fan of the GamesDoneQuick (gamesdonequick.com) speedrun marathon tha
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Show HN: GDQStatus – Realtime Visualizations of the GamesDoneQuick Stream(gdqstat.us)
2 points by bcongdon 9y ago|1 comments