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by dkhenry 7y ago
I would like to know if you think the problem is AirBnB or the lack of building new houses. I find a lot of people who complain AirBnB drives up rent, but also believe building more units won't push down rents.
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by dkhenry 7y ago
Also, for a more Vitess heavy presentation also on Kubernetes. Take a look at this talk we gave at KubeCon Europe https://youtu.be/OZl4HrB9p-8
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by dkhenry 7y ago
It is Apache 2 and thats the only version we will deploy, there isn't a Proprietary version that planetscale will use in the background. This isn't a fork or even a re-licensed version of Vitess. Everything we develop goes into th
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by dkhenry 7y ago
That was a talk sponsored by the EKS team at Amazon, we ( at planetscale ) were working with them and our partner to show off how well we could scale, but since it was part of the EKS track we wanted to highlight the details of Kubernetes.
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by dkhenry 7y ago
The product is drop in compatible with MySQL so if you are using MySQL today its likely you would see some improvement. Also if you have large data sets or if you want a Highly Available database running alongside your applications in Kuber
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by dkhenry 7y ago
PlanetScale is built on Vitess ( https://vitess.io ) which actually uses MySQL as the backing store, and Vitess has been deployed at Youtube, Slack, and a bunch of other companies for years ( the first commits date back to Septe
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by dkhenry 7y ago
Hey I am on the team at PlanetScale and you are 100% correct about that. One of the great decisions we made was that our SaaS is the OSS version of Vitess so even if we went away you would still be able to continue with Vitess. Also we are
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by dkhenry 7y ago
PlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate, Customer Success Engineer, Marketing, Sales | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is
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Andreessen invests $22M in PlanetScale’s database-as-a-service(techcrunch.com)
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by dkhenry 7y ago
I know why it exists, and my point is they are not trying to show a gazillion txn/sec on 1MB of data. You are looking at a dataset that is several TB's. They have far surpassed the point where a vendor is trying to cheat by puttin
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by dkhenry 7y ago
That "Think Time" that you are referring to is supposed to emulate users running transactions on the database. So its not the database waiting its the driver waiting. While I do understand the reason for putting that in, you know
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by dkhenry 7y ago
I don't understand how papers like this get published. The title of the paper seems almost designed to lead you to the wrong conclusion. The paper is about income inequality, and it appears to be a meta-study proposing that building mo
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by dkhenry 7y ago
For two reasons, first the work wears on you. It can lead to being cynical and it can be flat out unhealthy to continue to work at that level of government for a long period of time. The stress and pressure can be overwhelming. Secondly its
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by dkhenry 7y ago
Its impossible for me to overemphasize the impact the USDS can have, the question is never "will somoene let us do this" its always do we have the resources to do what needs to be done. What will crush you is the burden of service
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by dkhenry 7y ago
So you can't stay employed with the USDS after your tour of duty, after a maximum of four years you have to leave ( and that is a good thing ). However if you are able to be hired by the USDS you won't have a hard time finding a j
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by dkhenry 7y ago
I don't think the problem in the government is ever the need for "New Tech", its normally just better application of really well understood tech, that being said for a company of similar headcount ( of which there are few to
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by dkhenry 7y ago
While the total compensation may be less then your total income now, I can tell you its 100% possible to live in the DC area on that salary, without a significant drop in quality of life. That includes if you have a family. The Metro lines
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by dkhenry 7y ago
PlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds mo
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by dkhenry 8y ago
Your right, so go ahead and get a more modest car, save 600 a month, or 7200 a year, That will buy you exactly two weeks of living expenses per year you could save. Do the same with food and save another 1300 a month and you can get up to s
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by dkhenry 8y ago
So I think you missed the point of the article, this is a very modest "middle class" kind of budget. Yes you could save a little more here and there, but the point is to have even a modest lifestyle in San Francisco you would need
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by dkhenry 8y ago
I don't think this is a viable solution to Agile. I think the spirit is fine in that its painfully obvious that Agile has become little more then a buzzword sold by consultants, and almost all implementations of it look a lot like mini
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by dkhenry 8y ago
PlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds mo
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by dkhenry 8y ago
Images and links in the E-mails are set up with trackers, so they won't load when people are on my network. Additionally most of the actionable links in emails go through trackers before they take you where you need to go.
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by dkhenry 8y ago
Its not even big companies any more. All the tools that help people send out group emails ( so things like invites to dinner parties, or birthday parties, or sign up lists for school snack duty )
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by dkhenry 8y ago
A few months ago when I moved I set up my network to DNS blackhole known Tracker's and Ad serving sites. Since then I have gotten more complaints about people not being able to use email since it turns out almost every email I get toda
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by dkhenry 8y ago
The Local Persistent Volumes are not quite ready for things like DB workloads. They still require manual work to be done before they can be used. So if you plan on using them you need to configure your servers and manually create the PV obj
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by dkhenry 8y ago
There is no one in Philadelphia who does not have access to the banking system, or have the ability to pay cash for a prepaid debit card. After dealing with people in Philadelphia who are "unbanked" it was never because they could
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by dkhenry 8y ago
This was the thing I liked the best about it. Even if you wanted to not make it "real time" making it so I didn't have to transfer all my data every refresh would be benefit enough.
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by dkhenry 8y ago
I saw this presentation at grafanacon and it was awesome. I really hope the team takes this and turns it into a first class feature.
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by dkhenry 8y ago
I don't know if I would call it GitLab's concept. Every place I have worked at that has used github has had the idea of a Work In Progress pull request. Its a pretty natural concept for an multi-member development team. So much so

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