feyman_r

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   by feyman_r 8y ago

   > How is that different than a department store? I think it is different. When a department store buys a third-party product, it pays for it and the Store bears the risk of the item not selling. If Macy's decides to make their own
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   by feyman_r 8y ago

   Reminds me of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer: "In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred&quo
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   by feyman_r 8y ago

   For anyone interested in learning more about HA and consistency, I found this book very interesting: https://dataintensive.net/ . The author does a great job developing an intuition for progress made along with trade-offs at
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   by feyman_r 8y ago

   Links to 'our website' on the github page follows through to this paper [1]. Haven't read through it, but I did see a graph comparing Intel TBB, RocksDB and Masstree. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/r
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   by feyman_r 10y ago

   I heard an interesting take on this on the Planet Money podcast. While I still think books are over-priced here, it allowed me to think of different 'forces' that shape book prices: http://www.npr.org/sections&#x2F
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   by feyman_r 10y ago

   I would think running on 'owned hardware' in rented colo space is very close to 'rented hardware' in the cloud. The only clear differentiator then is actually owning a datacenter. And the Total Cost of Ownership of that