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by bkirkbri 13y ago
Discussed earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570658
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by bkirkbri 13y ago
Well, that depends on your BLOBs, how you use them and what it's worth to you, doesn't it?
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by bkirkbri 13y ago
> I also sent Werner an email asking if it would be suitable to use DynamoDB as a block device — you could then build a filesystem on top and benefit from DynamoDB features like replication, consistency, etc. This. 100 times. A filesyst
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by bkirkbri 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they roll out hash-key-less lookup at some point. This announcement shows they realize that the inclusion of a feature which _could_ be built on the initial primitives can reduce barriers to adoption. IMHO the cha
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
Interesting. One of the things I've come to love most about Clojure is that I find it easy to read and reason about code I did not write. Your comment demonstrates that is not universally true.
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
Don't let the afterhours haters -- sorry, hackers -- get you down. Riemann looks to be a fantastic piece of open-source software for scratching a particular itch. Coincidentally, I was just working on a tracing system to dump data to Rieman
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
For simple problem domains (Blog, Mom and Pop store website, etc) it's trivial to pre-generate content. For larger content systems you can run into a more complicated dependency tree. Then you have the choice between keeping the dependency
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
Bash autocompletion is included, though I haven't tested it yet.
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
Here's hoping that they add support for S3 soon. It's a shame that it's so difficult to leverage IAM Roles to bootstrap an instance. The very latest boto is the only tool I know of that supports S3 fetching using the STS credentials that yo
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Datomic gets a REST API(blog.datomic.com)
52 points by bkirkbri 14y ago|1 comments
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that this is the motivation behind http://datomic.com
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
Have you looked into http://datomic.com yet? It seems to address a lot of the concerns you have (triple-store-like, high performance, Prolog-like queries).
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
I'd love to do a detailed blog post on it, but unfortunately I'm too swamped right now. The summary: - Any serious codebase is going to exceed the complexity you can hold in your mind at one time - Once that happens, it's crucial that you c
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by bkirkbri 14y ago
We're switching to Clojure specifically because of maintainability. In Clojure your functions tend to be concise, operate on immutable data structures (no side effects) and can be tested/mocked easily. The lack of boilerplate alone makes