gshx

7 ms·

31.
by gshx 11y ago
You can go to https://accounts.autodesk.com/register to make one, it's easy.
32.
by gshx 11y ago
I should have clarified that I meant small in the context of less scaled out and more vertically scaled like the traditional rdbms running on big iron.
33.
by gshx 11y ago
Agree and that's a great point about human failover. It can become a challenge for distributed databases running on a large number of instances (like bigtable) but if we're talking only about master HA, then yes, that can still do
34.
by gshx 11y ago
Thanks for sharing your stories and lessons learnt. Also appreciated is your explaining in the context of the larger Fb sys infra and the services instagram engg. deliberately decide to rely on.
35.
by gshx 11y ago
Is anyone even using CF anymore especially in production? The spring/tomcat jee based setup seems a bit antiquated when there are so many lighter weight alternatives available.
36.
by gshx 11y ago
Congrats Confluent. I'm excited about the Schema Registry piece and where that can go: https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/540072/elements/p
37.
by gshx 11y ago
Thanks for the nice and informative post. Can you add a bit more color to extreme chaos failure with maybe a more concrete action and its outcome? I'm assuming you're pre-classifying availability/sla's for the serving pa
38.
by gshx 11y ago
It's hard to correlate the points made in this post with eventual consistency. Microservice or any service's runtime distribution and deployment model has impacts on consistency but that doesn't imply that systems will automa
39.
by gshx 11y ago
Completely agree though as history has taught us, socialism doesn't scale very well. Better results merit better rewards. The term "Rewards" is broader than monetary benefits. Holds true not just for individual performance bu
40.
by gshx 11y ago
I've always been somewhat wary of the self tuning systems. The challenge is that the runtime profile of a well-utilized machine is not always predictable especially if it is multi-tenant and/or running a mixture of different workl
41.
by gshx 11y ago
It's a good post. One thing great companies get right, is to value the engineers that are working on the codebase. If an engineer is or feels under-paid and they get a competing offer, it's already too late to try and retain them.
42.
by gshx 11y ago
I start with running the tests if there are any. Typically peeling layers of the onion starting with the boundary. If there are no tests, then I'll try to write them. Then running tests in debug mode helps step through the code. If I h
43.
by gshx 11y ago
Bug in the month matching, instead of [01]\d which will also match 13-19, maybe try something like: (0[1-9]|[1-9]|1[0-2]) https://goo.gl/RMv4x2
44.
by gshx 12y ago
Chegg -- Santa Clara (HQ), San Francisco, CA -- local or remote At Chegg, we are disrupting education by transforming the way millions of students learn. Our work here today will improve and shape education for future generations! We'r
45.
by gshx 13y ago
Shutterfly - Redwood City, CA We're looking for Infrastructure/Platform Software Engineers to help us build the next generation of our core media/upload/render systems (that manage and serve tens of billions of images =