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by dkhenry 6y ago
I understand and appreciate the overt racist actions that have happened in the past, and maybe I am just jaded at this point, but saying this is caused by historical racism is giving a pass to the corrupt and failed system that has just giv
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by dkhenry 6y ago
The Baltimore city-wide graduation rate is 70%[1]. Its not at all unbelievable that this single school would be below 50%. Public education in the US is a failed system, and we have rewarded it by throwing more money at the problem. 1. htt
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by dkhenry 6y ago
This whole thing is a brilliant idea. The Navy has a ton of people working on planned maintenance [1], and anything that could improve reliability is worth its weight in gold. I know you mentioned ships already for grease, but just thinking
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How do you perform the initial rollout and configuration ? Does someone have to manually associate the RFID with the specific zerk and machine and set up a maintenance schedule? How do you handle machines where greasing is a function of hou
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by dkhenry 6y ago
Not only that, but the entire process is fairly transparent. For instance the code for this website is available here https://github.com/usds/playbook Along with full commit history.
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I am not terribly surprised. The materialize team was previously at CockroachDB which also had a habit of putting out marketing material like this.
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by dkhenry 6y ago
H1B employee's can work at any employer for the term of their status. The employee only has to transfer the visa to the new employer. I have done this for multiple employee's on H1B's its nothing like getting a new H1B for so
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Consensus Algorithms at Scale(planetscale.com)
4 points by dkhenry 6y ago|0 comments
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by dkhenry 6y ago
Some people ( like Marianne ) have the capability to stick around a bit longer and effect much greater change. Its exhausting, but there is a strong community that helps you make it though the really hard days.
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by dkhenry 6y ago
PlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Success Engineer, Marketing, Sales | REMOTE, Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early sta
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by dkhenry 6y ago
I don't think its a widely accepted best practice yet, mainly because its hard to do well, and by its self its hard to take advantage of the benefits of using k8s. The company I work for has been building out the tools require to run d
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by dkhenry 6y ago
I have been working with integrating Prisma with Vitess and it is a very nice platform. Of all the ORM's I have been working with testing I think it gets what I want out of an ORM better then almost every other ORM. I am excited to see
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by dkhenry 6y ago
Here is what I saw with both this and the Parent's comment about LRU's, and this is in the context of the CVN's where I did my work. Every vendor uses something different ( count how many flat panel computer model's are
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by dkhenry 6y ago
My first job out of college was working for the navy as a civilian engineer. At the time I read through all these and found them on par with the education I got at my university. With the training found in these books a sailor could unders
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by dkhenry 6y ago
About a year ago Vitess merged in support for what we call VReplication. ( https://vitess.io/docs/reference/features/vreplication/ ) The initial demo was a custom Materialized view that did calculations
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PlanetScale open-sources Kubernetes operator for Vitess(planetscale.com)
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This is a really tough problem to solve. I know Alibaba and WePay both have made solutions to try and handle it at scale https://github.com/seata/seata https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/waltz-a-distri
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Vitess 6.0 Is Released(vitess.io)
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I think by "application level" they are saying "using transactions at the application level". If you require a strict sequence of numbers then you BEGIN, READ, INSERT, COMMIT, that is really what you want so just do it e
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by dkhenry 6y ago
Yes there is a requirement for a full mesh, and generally it has to be in all regions. GCP will route for you at the Network level so we could get away with not all GCP regions being peered to all AWS and Azure regions, but all AWS and Azur
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by dkhenry 6y ago
It's not mentioned in the blog, but we are actively working with other providers to bring them on board. Hopefully we will have Digital Ocean soon, and I am hoping for Packet after them
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by dkhenry 6y ago
I was one of the individuals who helped put this together and hopefully can answer your question. Specifically about complexity and the productivity of going multi-cloud. Here is what we found, previously when people talked about going to t
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by dkhenry 7y ago
A Spreadsheet that uses data validation to provide a drop down list of options is super useful for entering orders. Google forms can do something similar and really thats all you need right now
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by dkhenry 7y ago
I have had a Service Down Ticket open with Azure now for four days with out as much as a call back from them. Just today I finally got the automated email saying they acknowledge my issue. My system is totally dead in the water on Azure. On
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by dkhenry 7y ago
I'm planting one because its the most relaxing and rewarding thing for me. Something about watching things slowly grow after tending to them for months is very rewarding. Also they don't sell all the kinds of produce you can grow.
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Its split into geographically located shards so you don't need to sync across the global keyspace which is very different from the Spanner model. You have a configurable amount of durability so you can set how much latency you want to
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PlanetScale Launches Kubernetes-based multi-cloud database to accelerate scaling(siliconangle.com)
14 points by dkhenry 7y ago|2 comments
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There is a group inside the VA that might be able to help with it. https://connectedcare.va.gov/ They have teams that are working on mobile app's and they may be open to quickly putting together something to try out. T
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by dkhenry 7y ago
That is because at the end of the day VC's want you to spend all your money so they can get more of your ownership. There is no incentive for them for fund companies in middle america where their dollars aren't in such high demand
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by dkhenry 7y ago
This is the most common argument I hear against building, but I am firmly convinced that the reason you have the commute problem in the Bay area isn't because of the number of people, but because the resistance to building has forced d

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