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by halbritt 6y ago
Microsoft's interest in on-premises business with these products is waning, just as the market share for them is also waning. They most assuredly aren't trying to win the war against Linux on the server. That war has been won (b
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by halbritt 6y ago
Fast growing? The on-premises infrastructure market has been and is projected to continue shrinking in favor of cloud spend. Googling around one can find reports with names like "IDC Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems Market Sh
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by halbritt 6y ago
> As the other comment explained, they are still a huge gorilla in spaces that are absolutely vital to Linux: server, desktop, and laptop. No reasonable person at Microsoft considers Linux to be a threat on the desktop/laptop. No r
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by halbritt 6y ago
To each his own. Windows isn't that awful these days and wrestling with Nvidia drivers on Linux is a PITA and entirely Nvidia's fault. Their drivers on Windows aren't that great, either.
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by halbritt 6y ago
Kinda like this guy except I use google apps for documents and sheets, VSCode for an IDE and... I boot Win10 for Steam games, Fusion360 and AutoCAD.
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by halbritt 6y ago
A log is a log. Maybe read "I <3 Logs" by Jay Kreps, one of the founders of Confluent and creators of kafka.
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by halbritt 6y ago
Preferably, everything that can be is loosely coupled and extensible.
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by halbritt 6y ago
Or to add to that, there are often very good reasons to optimize well before facebook did. The sheer friction of making the transition to The Right Thing can often be too difficult to overcome.
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by halbritt 6y ago
The fact that many people are scared away from Kafka simply because they don't want to run zookeeper should be telling.
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by halbritt 6y ago
Kafka has exactly-once semantics that mostly work. They also have "idempotent producer" which ostensibly provides atomic transactions as well. Sounds awesome, but the implementation pretty much breaks kafka in that one can no lon
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by halbritt 6y ago
Not nearly as broken as it was. It offers reasonable performance as a document database for unstructured data and surprisingly, works pretty well when containerized. I wouldn't use it for transactions, though.
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by halbritt 6y ago
Learn how to do migrations well. There's plenty of literature on the topic.
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by halbritt 6y ago
Most people are simply bad at migrations.
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by halbritt 6y ago
Kafka is just starting to be free of some of its fundamental shortcomings that hindered it's adoption, similar to mongo in the early days, I think. Anyway, I see it being used more widely these days for streaming data. Apache Pulsar d
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by halbritt 6y ago
For streaming data kafka is great. It gets misused in many ways. It can be made to guarantee order and has semantics for exactly once processing which may lead one to believe it can be used for transactions, but that forces all kinds of t
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by halbritt 6y ago
In DBMS the "source of truth" is the log. Kafka can be used in exactly the same way, and in that sense, it can be the primary data store. Whether that's useful for a given use case is certainly debatable. IIRC, the New York
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by halbritt 6y ago
For something, the risk of a counterfeit seems lower.
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by halbritt 6y ago
I sometimes buy things from eBay when I know I'll get a counterfeit item from Amazon. ...strange world.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I have similar problems with the XPS15 and Windows 10.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I have similarly been running Ubuntu on an XPS15 mostly without any issues. Networking has been fine, standby, battery life, all that has been fine. Takes a little bit of research and tweaking to get it into a good state, but once one has
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by halbritt 7y ago
CANBUS is an example of that.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Yeah, that's where I knew something was wrong. There are some very genuine and useful conversations that happen in the comments at HN. They aren't universally awesome, but when I see something linked, I frequently jump straight
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by halbritt 7y ago
I'm curious how, with your experience, that you came to the conclusion that k8s is a monster to run?
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by halbritt 7y ago
> The more you buy in to Kubernetes, the harder it is to do normal development This demonstrates the bias and perspective of the author. The best way I can describe it is code-centric rather than system centric. If that's "no
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by halbritt 7y ago
> There's also one completely free zonal cluster for hobbyist projects. Nice.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I've interviewed with Google 3-4 times over the years. Every time they've contacted me, they've asserted they've changed and will respect my time. Most recently was this past June and I have to say that while the proces
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by halbritt 7y ago
This is the second response of this sort that I'm replying to. "A lot more stable" isn't really a desirable characteristic of ephemeral compute capacity. In my experience, the less frequently the instances went away, th
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by halbritt 7y ago
That presumes that an instance type that last longer is "better".
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by halbritt 7y ago
GCP has a similar instance type called "preemptible", they're not quite as cheap as spot, but they don't "dry up" and they're guaranteed to go down every 24 hours. This precludes one from becoming complace
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by halbritt 7y ago
Eh, I'm currently running an old version of DCOS which does a pretty terrible job of scaling down. Much more than just a scheduler is required to make this work well.

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