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by gregwebs 7y ago
It is a high risk business model to be entirely dependent on negotiating a license with a single vendor that you are competing against. For MongoDB there are vendors that will keep offering managed MongoDB. I talked with one that is open-so
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by gregwebs 7y ago
Yes, some cloud providers readily suggest competing with them by making something better. In the end, the DB is still running on their infrastructure (required to keep the customer's latency low) and they are still capturing profit eve
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by gregwebs 7y ago
Was that a DBaaS or a DB that you deployed yourself? I think many new databases are handling the concerns around lock-in by being Postgres or MySQL compatible. PlaneScale is MySQL compatible of course.
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by gregwebs 7y ago
PingCAP | Software Engineer | San Mateo and distributed | Full-Time | Remote | https://angel.co/pingcap-1/jobs We make TiDB, an open source distributed scale-out database that is consistent, always online, and MySQL co
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by gregwebs 7y ago
The author of the submitted site has also developed some of this information on a separate page: https://efficiencyiseverything.com/nutrient-per-calorie/ I created a site that will display a nutrient density graph for
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by gregwebs 8y ago
Haskell (a compiled lanaguage) has done hot code reloading with ghci for a long time. Facebook actually deploys in production by reloading. https://simonmar.github.io/posts/2017-10-17-hotswapping-hask...
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by gregwebs 8y ago
reminds me a bit of a very old project called FlapJax: https://www.flapjax-lang.org/tutorial/ Elm is a compile to JS language with a small footprint (it does still use a virtual-dom though). It would be nice to see a s
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by gregwebs 8y ago
PingCAP | Software Engineer | San Mateo and distributed | Full-Time | Remote | https://angel.co/pingcap-1/jobs We make TiDB, an open source scale-out database that is consistent, always online, and MySQL compatible. Ou
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by gregwebs 8y ago
If you find this story intriguing, the book "Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story" is an amazing journey into a similar culture of cyclical violence between neighboring tribes.
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by gregwebs 8y ago
Are there any plans to use an interpreter towards having a fast compile cycle. My reference point is Haskell's ghci which reloads changes very quickly (whereas the normal compiler is similar in speed to Rust).
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by gregwebs 8y ago
I highly recommend reviewing Prices account of his studies in the field: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html His conclusion was quite different: that the cause was a lack of nutrients in the modern diet. It
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by gregwebs 8y ago
PingCAP | Software Engineer, Customer Success | San Mateo and distributed | Full-Time | Remote | https://angel.co/pingcap-1/jobs We make TiDB, an open source scale-out database that is consistent, always online, and My
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by gregwebs 8y ago
However, it is required by AWS when you sign their BAA to have HIPAA compliance. The approach I looked at to solving this problem was using an Envoy proxy sidecar.
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by gregwebs 8y ago
It certainly doesn't have to be the case. The MongoDB layer can be used via the MongoDB protocol. TiDB is an entire MySQL implementation that any MySQL client can connect to which is built on top of TiKV (equivalent to FDB). If the goa
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by gregwebs 8y ago
Notion is now becoming a lot more like coda. I love how Coda exposes tabular data in a programmable way (but programmable as in easier than spreadsheets). It also even has API access: https://coda.io/developers/apis&#x2
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by gregwebs 8y ago
What about the speed of type-checking? Flow is near-instant by keeping everything live from the last check whereas TypeScript has always been much slower. Other than that aspect (which is very important!) I do think TypeScript is likely a b
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by gregwebs 8y ago
I am using the HTTP Gateway and generating OpenAPI from that for type-safe access [1]. The main downside is that this introduces an additional build step in your project and a small amount of additional run-time processing. The upside is su
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by gregwebs 8y ago
This is a nice talk to explain what a document database is and how it is supposed to be used. Many think it is about not having a schema, but you could have the database enforce a schema in a document Database. Document storage freezes acce
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by gregwebs 8y ago
PingCAP | Software Engineer, Customer Success | San Mateo and distributed | Full-Time | Remote | https://angel.co/pingcap-1/jobs We make TiDB, an open source scale-out database that is always consistent, always online,
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by gregwebs 8y ago
PingCAP | Software Engineer, Customer Success | San Mateo and distributed | Full-Time | Remote | https://angel.co/pingcap-1/jobs We make TiDB, an open source scale-out database that is always consistent, always online,
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by gregwebs 8y ago
I have started a lot of unsophisticated shell users with Oh My Zsh which works great without any configuration, and is what I use myself. I can see how its easier to just make sure Fish is installed, but in some situations (NFS home directo
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by gregwebs 8y ago
cuid removes more of the randomness adds a counter and a fingerprint: https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid The default id in MongoDB does about the same. I always thought the MongoDB identifiers worked well for a lot of
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by gregwebs 8y ago
Relatedly, there are some active efforts to make a Redis on top of TiKV, which is a distributed persistent Key-Value store with transactions. Titan: https://medium.com/@shafreeck/titan-a-distributed-redis-prot... Tidis
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by gregwebs 8y ago
I am glad you share our excitement! We don't have open internships right now, but we will post them on HN Whos Hiring when they become available.
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by gregwebs 8y ago
I think a keyboard has to split in two to be truly ergonomic (otherwise it isn't really adjustable to the user). I was a happy user of an ErgoPro [1] for a year until it stopped working. I tried the Ergodox but really didn't like
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A Redis layer built on top of TiKV, the distributed Key-Value store from TiDB(medium.com)
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by gregwebs 8y ago
Yes, that's correct. Expect more development on this front soon.
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by gregwebs 8y ago
Greg from the TiDB team here. I do share your sentiment, and at the moment you can probably best track or progress on this issue here: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/8484 The explanation is just that
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by gregwebs 8y ago
Dhall and its Kubernetes support are another potential option [1]. I am not using them yet, but looking to switch from helm templates to something that isn't just text mash-up but has modules and type-safety. Skycfg looks like a nice o
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by gregwebs 8y ago
PingCAP | Software Engineer, Product Designer | San Mateo and distributed | Full-Time | Remote | https://angel.co/pingcap-1/jobs We make TiDB, a scale-out database that is always consistent, always online, and MySQL co

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