cliffcrosland

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How Not to Spend Half a Million Dollars on Logs(blog.scanner.dev)
6 points by cliffcrosland 3y ago|2 comments
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
tl;dr don’t use an architecture from the on-premise era where storage and compute are coupled together.
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Cargo-zigbuild: Compile Rust using Zig as linker for easier cross compiling(github.com)
2 points by cliffcrosland 3y ago|1 comments
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
Great project. Zig and Rust working together in harmony to make it easier to cross-compile Rust for different targets. We use this to great effect to build for x86 and ARM chips in AWS.
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Serverless Speed: Rust vs. Go, Java, and Python in AWS Lambda Functions(blog.scanner.dev)
5 points by cliffcrosland 3y ago|0 comments
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
We're really liking the combination of using Rust, AWS Lambda functions, and ECS Fargate. Everything runs well in ARM, but make sure to use `musl` instead of `glibc` - we've found memory usage to be almost 10x lower with `musl` th
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Why we're building Scanner: data lake search must be fast(blog.scanner.dev)
6 points by cliffcrosland 3y ago|1 comments
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
Yeah I think this is where Datadog excelled and Splunk struggled. Design is clearly better at Datadog, especially the onboarding UX and workflow.
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
Maybe, but the Splunk query language is reasonably well liked by its users, at least in the security space. Much more approachable than SQL, which seems to be what all new tools these days are forcing users to use due to their dependence on
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
I worked at Cisco following an acquisition. I tend to agree with this comment about the upper stacks :) However, AppDynamics and Duo seem to be doing well at Cisco from what I can tell. I think observability and security tools are a good ma
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
We’re also giving this a shot. The annual Splunk bill at our last startup exploded from $10k to $1M when we reached 1TB of logs generated per day, which is actually an easy threshold to hit when you have decent traction and aren’t proactive
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
How do you think Splunk will fare as more companies move to public clouds? Seems unbeatable on-prem, which probably means that the company is a good match for Cisco.
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by cliffcrosland 3y ago
Agreed. Costs plummet when you use S3 as the storage medium for these massive log data sets. I think S3 is much faster to query than most people realize. Just have to be smart about how you organize things.
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by cliffcrosland 4y ago
Looks really cool! Great work! Had a pricing question. Say we connected a log forwarder like Vector to send data to Clickhouse Cloud, once per second. If each write unit is $0.0125, and we execute 86,400 writes over the course of the day, w
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by cliffcrosland 4y ago
We are using Rust to build a fast log event database. The workload includes a lot of asynchronous networking I/O and parallelized CPU-intensive work, like indexing and SIMD-accelerated string search. There are great libraries for what
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by cliffcrosland 7y ago
> But the biggest reason to RiiR is safety. 100% agree. We had a C++ service that made heavy use of libcurl. A particular release of libcurl introduced some memory safety problems that caused frequent segfaults for us. These memory safet
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by cliffcrosland 7y ago
Reading an enumeration of architecture options can be helpful, but I've probably found more value in works like Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" that cover fundamental design principles. Such principles see
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by cliffcrosland 9y ago
To be honest, I feel bad for the engineering team at Equifax. The vulnerability that compromised their system was a bug in an open-source Java library, Apache Struts, and security researchers only noticed it a few days ago. It seems that th
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by cliffcrosland 9y ago
My father saw his biggest entrepreneurial success as a father of four kids in junior high and high school. I believe his schedule looked roughly like this: - 6am work at home - 8am work at office - 6pm dinner with family at home, or cheer a
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by cliffcrosland 10y ago
Strangely enough, Stoicism. I try to recognize what I can control and what I can't, and I try not to let things I can't control scare me into inaction.
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by cliffcrosland 10y ago
Luminus - compilation of Clojure libraries for web dev. Postgres.
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by cliffcrosland 10y ago
We use C++ heavily at Accompany. The CTO co-founder was one of the chief engineers at Google Analytics where most of the highly scaled systems were written in C++. Perhaps you could try investigating startups where the founders have a Googl
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by cliffcrosland 11y ago
Anecdotal data point: my father was an entrepreneur for 100% of my childhood. It was rare for him to miss dinner with us, and he attended easily more than 60% of our extracurricular events. He'd often work from home late after we went
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Ask HN: Do some YC values need to be softened?
10 points by cliffcrosland 11y ago|6 comments
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by cliffcrosland 11y ago
Thank you for sharing. Despite some scientific fumbles, I thought Interstellar did a great job portraying the gravitational lensing effects of black- and worm-holes. I just wish that the worm-hole travel scene would have been as short and s
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by cliffcrosland 11y ago
An excellent point. The pointer is indeed distracting. I just removed it from my demo, and it's much better. Thanks
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by cliffcrosland 11y ago
Your demo is excellent! If you don't mind, I might dig into the source later to compare our approaches. I'm thinking about doing a 3D visualization sometime, and I'm interested in seeing how other people solve the problem. Gr
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Show HN: Black-hole.js – Visualize black hole gravitational lensing in WebGL(github.com)
72 points by cliffcrosland 11y ago|14 comments
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by cliffcrosland 12y ago
When I was a freshman in college, I was in a humanities class that focused on the intersection between humans and machines. We had an assignment to build and test out a "prosthesis", i.e. a technology that extends human capability
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by cliffcrosland 12y ago
The assumption that startup success relies on enduring 80 hour work weeks is a commonly held one in Silicon Valley, yet there are some remarkable counter-examples. Dropcam, for example, made it an explicit part of their culture that employe

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