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Wallaroo Up: automating the Linux developer experience for Wallaroo(blog.wallaroolabs.com)
2 points by hackmanytrades 8y ago|0 comments
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Pony 0.24.4 released(ponylang.org)
1 points by hackmanytrades 8y ago|0 comments
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Pony 0.24.2 released(ponylang.org)
2 points by hackmanytrades 8y ago|0 comments
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Pony 0.22.3 released(ponylang.org)
2 points by hackmanytrades 8y ago|0 comments
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. I'll be around to answer questions.
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Performance testing a low-latency stream processing system(blog.wallaroolabs.com)
9 points by hackmanytrades 9y ago|1 comments
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
99% of Pony Kafka is written by me (for better or worse). I've been working on it since about May 2017 off and on with it being my primary focus for the majority of that time. However, due to working arrangements and other commitments,
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
Great questions! Re: FFI. In general, using the C FFI and creating C wrappers is not a major issue (aside from them possibly not being idiomatic) and, as you mentioned, required for a language as young as Pony. In fact, Pony Kafka internall
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
In regards to the C and Scala/Java client libraries. They are great for what they do and how they do it. However, that doesn't mean they're ideal in every scenario. For example, the Scala/Java client is the most feature
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
From what I understand of librdkafka, there's no easy way to disable the internal thread pool it uses. I'd imagine that the internal thread pool for sending/receiving data from Kafka is as core to librdkafka as the internal t
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
Thanks! Blog post corrected.
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
Yes, that's correct on both counts. Pony Kafka is almost completely untuned as of right now. We expect there is a lot of low hanging fruit on that front that will give us significant gains. And yes, we're concerned about the poten
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
That's a great question. Yes, Pony Kafka is currently slower than the C client. But it is also almost completely untuned as of right now. We expect there is a lot of low hanging fruit on that front that will give us significant gains.
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
Just one of the many perks of working here at Wallaroo Labs. 8*P
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by hackmanytrades 9y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post and the primary author of Pony Kafka. I'll be around to answer questions.
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Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony(blog.wallaroolabs.com)
137 points by hackmanytrades 9y ago|95 comments