georgeaf99

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by georgeaf99 8y ago
Simon Peter, at UT Austin, has been working on a file system that works better for systems with NVM. It looks like existing file systems (e.g. EXT4) are going to suck in this new paradigm (DRAM -> NVM -> SSD) . It’s a pretty interesti
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by georgeaf99 10y ago
Hey all, I'm one of the creators of this project. I would love to get some feedback or answer any questions y'all might have!
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Planktos: Serving Websites Peer-To-Peer in the Browser(xuset.github.io)
2 points by georgeaf99 10y ago|1 comments
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by georgeaf99 10y ago
Hey y'all, I recently started working on a CI/CD product at an organization where the number of deployments per month is in the same ballpark as Netflix. In my experience, adopting systems for rapid deployments also requires adopt
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by georgeaf99 10y ago
A friend who works at the Dallas Animal Shelter (a non-profit) asked me to help automate their process of generating reports from data gathered via Google Forms, which they were doing by hand every month... As a developer who is used to hig
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by georgeaf99 10y ago
The concept of immutable assets and links is at the core of IPFS, a distributed alternative to HTTP. Since Firefox inplements the concept of immutable assets now, it would be totally reasonable to load these assets in the browser peer to pe
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by georgeaf99 10y ago
LinkedIn has a similar open source project that is much more mature. It builds on Gradle features to manage complex dependencies and build Python artifacts. If you include this LinkedIn Gradle Plugin [1] you can automatically run tests in a
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by georgeaf99 10y ago
You are correct that creating a program that verifies any other program is mathematically impossible. However, given some critical assumptions regarding the scope of the problem, we can use formal verification techniques to generate proofs
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A Short Introduction to Distributed Databases(medium.com)
3 points by georgeaf99 10y ago|0 comments
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by georgeaf99 10y ago
The paperback version is also available on Amazon for $26 (it is currently out of stock though). http://www.amazon.com/dp/149192912X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdm_Tsad...
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by georgeaf99 11y ago
I'm not sure that this experiment is all that useful in determining the practicality of using Raft instead of Paxos. Anybody implementing one of these algorithms is going to be spending more than one hour learning it. In my experience,
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by georgeaf99 11y ago
This is a really important point that a lot of people seem to have missed. A common assumption that stems from monotonously increasing clocks is that: all computers can guarantee the causality of their own internal events. Which is a critic
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by georgeaf99 11y ago
I will preface this by saying my understanding of particle physics is very basic... Yes, that is correct. The Higgs particle is also extremely unstable and decays into two photons almost immediately.