frollogaston

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2011.
by frollogaston 2y ago
Interesting, I'll have to try it out at some point.
2012.
by frollogaston 2y ago
Speaking of gRPC, it's unfortunate that they went all-in on HTTP/2. Should have made it work over HTTP/1.1. I know others made it work, but it wasn't first-party. Maybe it could've been more popular than JSON-over-H
2013.
by frollogaston 2y ago
Yep, it's tragic because it all stems from unforced differences vs ipv4. The design was reasonable, but with perfect hindsight, it needed to be different. They needed to keep the existing /32s and just make the address field bigge
2014.
by frollogaston 2y ago
I always wondered if ransomware is making some compromises in security so it can encrypt the disk so quickly and covertly.
2015.
by frollogaston 2y ago
This isn't comparable to the EV charging station problem, because at least there's already electricity everywhere and you don't need to convert to hydrogen on top of that.
2016.
by frollogaston 2y ago
I know people have already said that PHEVs do this, but the other comments made it seem more niche than it really is... About 35% of EVs are like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_hybrid#/media/File:
2017.
by frollogaston 2y ago
Shouldn't it still be able to turn, just not tilt?
2018.
by frollogaston 2y ago
I also wonder what limitations you get on queries. Cause in Spanner, there's something about cross-directory queries, or Citus can't do cross-shard FKs iirc. There's no magic way to shard a relational DB, you have to deal wit
2019.
by frollogaston 2y ago
It's still true for reads if you need them to be fully consistent, but yeah, read replicas are the answer sometimes.
2020.
by frollogaston 2y ago
"Postgres does not scale" means that you can't just give it more machines, which is true. At some point you've got the fastest available machine, maybe you've played with the settings, and that's it. Then you c
2021.
by frollogaston 2y ago
Availability is trickier than scalability. An async replica can lose a few recent writes during a failover, and a synchronous replica is safer but slower. A company using some platform might not even know which one they're using until