beoberha

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   You Are Overpaying Jeff Bezos for Your Databases(ottertune.com)

   63 points by beoberha 5y ago|36 comments
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   by beoberha 5y ago

   One person isn’t going to come remotely close to fixing this. I work for AWS/Azure/GCP and can tell you first hand that billing is an insanely hard problem to solve. It’s all done in batch by the service itself and pushed to a cen
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   by beoberha 6y ago

   Do you say this because you think some hacker can gain access to the VMs where your data is stored? It’s significantly more likely that this will happen due to one of your engineers getting social engineered. While we don’t know the details
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   by beoberha 6y ago

   Sure but it’s likely significantly more work to set up the private connectivity to the VPC. Makes sense to release to some customers IMO.
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   by beoberha 6y ago

   Much less than the amount from deals with strategic partners. The long tail of $5 a month from forgotten VMs is likely orders of magnitude less than the handshake deals you can publically read about.
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   by beoberha 6y ago

   I work in this space and you’re absolutely correct. Your last paragraph hits the nail on the head for pretty much every complain people have about the public clouds.
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   by beoberha 6y ago

   And when are self driving cars going to start driving themselves around and pick people up? Certainly not within 5 years.
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   by beoberha 6y ago

   Much like Detroit and Cleveland, the Toledo suburbs are quite affluent even though the city itself is on hard times. Very cool to see my hometown on HN :D
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   by beoberha 6y ago

   Thanks! Accidentally copied the wrong link in haste.
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    Late to the post, but if anyone wants a good primer on Materialize (beyond what their actual engineers and a cofounder are saying in the comments), check out the Materialize Quarantine Database Lecture: https://db.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    I hope they write a paper or at least do a talk about how they went about it. Usually these things are more involved than an outsider would think. Agreed that you can beat most of the CAP tradeoffs with significant engineering effort, but i
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    These are orthogonal. An index is used to prevent a full scan of the key space in order to find a record. You have indexes in both row and column oriented databases. What a column-store database gets you is fewer I/Os on reads since al
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    Sounds like they’re open sourcing it to get some help on it. I have to wonder if they’ve found it not worth the time to make it fully production ready.
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    Looks like this is the GCR/ACI compete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25267182
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    Seems like an interesting product that I’m sure a lot of people have a need for. At first I thought it was going to be a Google Cloud Run / Azure Container Instances clone, but seems to be more fully featured like Netlify. Seems ripe f
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    Exactly this. I work for a cloud provider and there has been a ton of push in the last year or so to develop customer communication teams and involve them at the first inkling of an outage. We can identify the subset of customers affected a
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    This is pretty awesome stuff. I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t been done before. It’s always interesting to see how the research world manifests itself in real world systems.
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    Virtual Consensus in Delos(blog.acolyer.org)

    20 points by beoberha 6y ago|4 comments
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    DO == Digital Ocean
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    I was fortunate enough to read Native Son in my high school sophomore English class. While I appreciated it then, a few years ago I revisited it and read Baldwin’s response essay “Everyone’s Protest Novel” and other meta-literature around t
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    by beoberha 6y ago

    I love YouTube TV and have been a customer since it was $35 a month. Their UI and digital DVR feature are unparalleled. But I agree with the other post where it’s quickly becoming cable. They’re adding one channel I remotely care about and
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    by beoberha 7y ago

    I live in Seattle now but used to live in Ohio. I agree that the minute by minute is pretty much useless in Seattle but it was incredibly accurate in Ohio. I have numerous stories where I was able to get to shelter or remain sheltered minut
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    by beoberha 7y ago

    Synchronous replication really slows down write performance and adds in the complexity of needing to determine if a replica is down. I think very few people use it in practice.