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by jshen 8y ago
I think the answer to some degree is RDF and the semantic data standards. It’s hard to explain them quickly, but it solves a portion of this problem.
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by jshen 8y ago
I’m not a fan of mongo, but I’ve run a fairly sizable enterprise platform on it for nearly a decade and we haven’t had any major issues that would make replacing it an urgent desire.
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by jshen 8y ago
I’d argue that executive incentives focused on short term stock price and golden parachutes is a greater hindrance to innovation. Another data point, there has been no correlation between exploding executive pay and company performance. The
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by jshen 8y ago
That’s fair. But the countries he’s talking about aren’t freer by any reasonable definition of freedom. Edit: and the countries he’s talking about didn’t take manufacturing by being more innovative, they did it through cheap brutal labor pr
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by jshen 8y ago
He said take, which doesn’t change my argument in any way.
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by jshen 8y ago
Which parts of the world do you think he’s talking about that are stealing industries from the US?
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by jshen 8y ago
What “freer parts of the world” is he talking about when it comes to stealing industries?
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by jshen 8y ago
It’s funny that you consider China freer than America. It shows that what you mean by freedom isn’t really freedom.
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by jshen 8y ago
What’s a good definition of serverless in your opinion?
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by jshen 8y ago
I think they are more serverless than PaaS by this definition. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/serv...
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by jshen 8y ago
It’s a spectrum and the boundaries are unclear. By this definition https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/serv... they are more serverless than PaaS imo. Either way, serverless is a superset
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by jshen 8y ago
Serverless includes other things like google app engine and Heroku.
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by jshen 8y ago
"The A for availability in CAP means that ALL database servers are fully available" Is this true? I always thought it meant that clients could continue to read and write to "the database" which could include the client s
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by jshen 8y ago
Well, there are stageful serverless products like Google Datastore.
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by jshen 8y ago
I’d say something more nuanced. Serverless is increasing commoditization of one layer of the stack at the cost of de-commoditizing a high layer of the stack. This is what makes it a hard decision to grapple with. You’re getting very real be
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by jshen 8y ago
The short answer is yes, you can do that, but it starts to get nuanced rather quickly. The context of this is a desire to go “serverless” and that solutions like this only give you serverless for the relatively easy parts of your stack. If
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by jshen 8y ago
Because the function is the stateless easy part. To make any non trivial system, in a serverless way, you have to use their proprietary stateful systems. IN my case, google pubsub, google data flow, google datastore, Spanner, etc. that’s wh
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by jshen 8y ago
but how do you feed data in? Usually, it's some other service on one of the big 3 cloud providers. I'm using google for my projects these days so it's a mix of Google PubSub and Dataflow. I think this is the issue/risk w
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by jshen 8y ago
Right, being able to talk to anyone in the world for free is a HUGE improvement.
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by jshen 8y ago
Most of us had family outside of our area code which meant large bills if we wanted to talk to them on a regular basis.
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by jshen 8y ago
I don’t know how old you are, but phone calls were really expensive in the decades before 2000. It’s not something low income people could afford to do very often.
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by jshen 8y ago
RDF solves very real problems, see my other comment in this thread for a list of a few of them. A graph database does not solve those problems in any way. I also find it strange to call it dead when companies like google and facebook are us
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by jshen 8y ago
I think it solves a real problem. I work at a large company, with many data silos. I’ve had to hire armies of interns to match in merge data over the years because it wasn’t possible to automate the merging of data from different databases.
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by jshen 8y ago
It provides a lot of benefits, see my other comment on this thread for a few specific benefits.
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by jshen 8y ago
The main benefit in my eyes is data integration. If you have multiple systems with data, and you want to merge the data together into a unified whole for some reason then RDF/JSON-LD make it easy and mostly automatic. For example: 1. H
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by jshen 9y ago
The whole point of event sourcing is the ability to manage state effectively. When you move state out of the event sourcing model you are losing the state management benefits of event sourcing for that data. Maybe that’s a reasonable trade-
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by jshen 9y ago
Google App Engine has worked really well for me as a Heroku replacement. Check it out if you haven’t.
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by jshen 9y ago
I still don't see how local files are by default compliant with the GDPR. I get that you prefer it from an ethical point of view, but that's unrelated to the specifics of the GDPR.
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by jshen 9y ago
Local log files are not automatically compliant by my reading of the GDPR, but IANAL. My understanding is that PII is a huge risk, regardless of it being local or with a vendor, and you aren't allowed to track things that you aren&#x27
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by jshen 9y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding GDPR, can you explain how tracking your users through logs is OK within the GDPR, but Google Analytics isn’t Ok.

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