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by jjirsa 5y ago
Vectorized/RedPanda for Kafka compatible service, at least. RedPanda seems to be a better starting point to be honest - a lot of the market share for Cassandra doesn't actually need the extra tps of Scylla. Some customers do, but
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by jjirsa 5y ago
Sharding is not the same as natural clustering, because eventually you’ll need to reshard and then you’ll be writing a lot more code.
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Accord: General Purpose Transactions for Cassandra(cwiki.apache.org)
3 points by jjirsa 5y ago|1 comments
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by jjirsa 6y ago
A currency that is used for real, genuine transactions and also happens to burn energy to keep the world economy honest? Can argue that's worthwhile. A pyramid scheme that has electricity consumption of bitcoin? Strictly a net loss for
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by jjirsa 6y ago
> You aren't looking for the hardest problems, you're looking for the problems your users hit the most that an engineer could reduce in the product. This is the hard part of software.
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by jjirsa 6y ago
3 is a common mistake, like the one engineers make when they pretend that the hard part of programming is typing
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by jjirsa 6y ago
Why should a company hire two lines of support to shield an engineer from bugs they introduce?
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Harry, a fuzz-testing tool for Apache Cassandra(github.com)
1 points by jjirsa 6y ago|0 comments
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by jjirsa 6y ago
Define “at scale”
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by jjirsa 6y ago
> You need a team probably The cardinal rule of database development: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-h...
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by jjirsa 6y ago
Who created this lie that Microsoft struggled with consumer? Xbox was always consumer and is massive. A huge chunk of the Windows line was always about consumers. The office line straddled both. Hotmail was consumer first.
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by jjirsa 6y ago
For Cassandra: https://github.com/apache/cassandra-diff (Designed for correctness testing at petabyte scale)
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by jjirsa 6y ago
Not as silly as you think
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by jjirsa 7y ago
> Following a very successful first foray into Rust we are migrating an established codebase from C to Rust, and building new functionality primarily in Rust. That doesn't say the job is ONLY converting code. It says that code was c
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by jjirsa 7y ago
It’s highly concurrent but not pauseless
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by jjirsa 7y ago
If 9% contributed code, that sounds like a really biased sampling
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by jjirsa 7y ago
Clearly RDS prints money - doesn’t take a genius to realize AWS has been trying to duplicate that success with every other OSS db-aaS they’ve launched since. Given its success, lack of pricing pressure makes sense - until users go away, the
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by jjirsa 7y ago
Cassandra is an Apache project and will always have an Apache license. It’s not a startup-driven product that is worried about AWS as a competitor.
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by jjirsa 7y ago
I don't work for AWS, but I do run Cassandra at scale for a living, and this line: > Considering the kind of resources Apache Cassandra requires to run Makes no sense. There is plenty of talent at AWS to run Cassandra proper on AWS
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by jjirsa 7y ago
> Cassandra was hard to manage and after many years of our team using it still had random spikes A lot of that is getting better over time. A non-trivial percentage of contributions are coming from companies that are only looking to impr
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by jjirsa 7y ago
Biased as a cassandra committer, but: - Feature sets aren't the same yet - History / maturity - License - Actual savings dont tend to match proposed savings - Development isn't driven by a startup that AWS can kill with an an
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by jjirsa 7y ago
AGPL and immature.
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by jjirsa 7y ago
GMail being at fault isn't going to make up for a missed invitation (or RSVP) to a special event, or not getting a note of congratulations on an accomplishment, or not getting a message of condolences. Assigning blame is done after the
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by jjirsa 7y ago
> I don't care if people don't get my mail This is the type of nonsense I expect from HN. Well done.
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by jjirsa 7y ago
It's not that they dont know or don't care - it's that not being super aggressive with filtering caused people to almost abandon email a decade ago because spam became unbearable for most people. Those "specialized tools
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by jjirsa 7y ago
EVERYONE did this for decades. Then EVERYONE stopped because it's awful. Modern ISPs don't like SMTP floating around, (DKIM, DMARC, SPF) are a pain to maintain over time, exploits will happen, and your free off-the-shelf virus and
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by jjirsa 7y ago
Dev finance group and comment at a precious all hands, I was guessing person called out previous CEO in public.
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by jjirsa 7y ago
Employee 3 Hi, my name is [redacted]. (audience applause) Marcelo Claure Well first you’ve got to tell me why the people like you so much? (audience laughs) Employee 3 Because I asked a question at the last A
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Apache Cassandra 4.0-alpha2 is released(twitter.com)
1 points by jjirsa 7y ago|0 comments
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by jjirsa 7y ago
All of that and no 2Advanced

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