dingribanda

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by dingribanda 7y ago
Is there a design document for this? I am curious about how this handles synchronization.
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by dingribanda 7y ago
Two companies that I was in the process interviewing, cancelled the interviews this week. I am thankfully employed but I was thinking of leaving the company I work for. Having said that there are other companies still willing to hire.
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by dingribanda 7y ago
In some parts of Africa, growing khat is more lucrative than growing food. This causes acute food shortages. I am not sure how this is going to affect growing food, if cannabis is more lucrative than growing food.
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by dingribanda 7y ago
One minor quibble. Intel pushed Itaniums hard at on point. The machines were huge and I had to have additional power routed to my office to run it. Thankfully AMD introduced the x64 architecture and the PC industry was saved. Between the po
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by dingribanda 7y ago
One company in particular, gave me fairly useful feedback. For a design question, I was going all over the place not taking hints from the interviewer. I did not realize that I was trying to cram everything into one hour. Anyways, I will co
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by dingribanda 7y ago
Efficient access is more than the interface on the client. The wire format matters. If the server sends the data in the row form from a columnar stored table in row form, it wont be efficient, there will be too many transformations. Perhaps
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by dingribanda 7y ago
I have been prepping for almost 6 months now. I look at the stocks new hires get at my company and what my refreshers are. Companies seem to be relying on the fact, most people are too lazy to leetcode and will not give good refreshers. I h
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by dingribanda 7y ago
Per the article, Redis requires a network call to the redis server. They wanted an in memory cache. Not sure how would you keep the per machine in memory cache in synch without change propagation to all the machines. This looks like a simpl
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by dingribanda 7y ago
There is a cost to manage the instance, upgrading monitoring etc. Even though there is no SLA on the basic tier, I would imagine Azure does some maintenance and monitoring. However is it worth 35$ etc, I am not sure. Also, the basic tier do