marknadal

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   by marknadal 11y ago

   Yes, although right now I am doing that with websockets which is silly for local stuff. We are wanting to add WebRTC as well, but we could also add what you are talking about - make an issue for it on the github (although it will probably b
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   Have you seen http://gunDB.io (disclosure: I am the author)? It has what you are describing. As well as replication and conflict resolution that the other commenter mentions.
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   Disclosure: I'm the author of a competing JavaScript database ( http://gunDB.io/ ). Unfortunately concurrency is typically the last thing that people think about. Concurrency is the first thing we deal with in our datab
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   I know this is the man who formulated the CAP Theorem to begin with, but I am shocked to hear him say "partitions are rare" without any justification. Could somebody please expound on this, as my bread&butter comes from buildi
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   I met Mark and Tim Berners-Lee at Extensible Summit and was very happy that they are still actively fighting for the World Wide Web in its full distributed, decentralized glory. I do work on synchronization in distributed systems, and would
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   No worries, getting database stuff correct is important and you have a right to know how things work before building anything on top of it. You don't want to build a house on a cracked foundation, I'm the same way and I'm try
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   Good point, haven't heard that one before. Let me clarify. GUN requires no additional maintenance because it gets embedded into your app, compared to most databases which require you to run (and maintain) a database server. If you do n
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   You are right, it is very similar to Couch/PouchDB. Honestly, I tried Couch back in 2010 and wasn't very impressed and haven't really kept up with it since. Although I regularly hear good things about it and am aware it is on
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   by marknadal 11y ago

   Me too! I'm lucky enough to be talking alongside Kyle at https://2015.distributed-matters.org/ber/ in a few weeks. I'm hoping to get to know him and see if he'll bash up my database and help find flaws (
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Good point, I'm definitely lacking coverage on my documentation. But we're working on it. GUN is a AP system, so you do not get Strong (Global) Consistency, instead it is Eventually Consistent and Highly Available. For more inform
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Just now noticed my project was on HN! Awesome, thanks to whoever submitted it. Will be replying to the comments now.
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    This is great work, and neighbors very closely to what I am doing with http://github.com/amark/gun . But the caveat of Falcor is that it does not have realtime updates (unless they have since changed this, please let me
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    I spent 7 months of my life dedicated to solving this problem and let me say, it is not easy because I failed. But I learned something really important, we are all doing it wrong. An index/offset based approach isn't the best solu
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    I am an author of a distributed database ( http://gunDB.io/ ) and I thought this article was fairly good, but with one grievance. Hashes aren't the ultimate solution. Certainly hashes will make things a lot better, but a
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    Show HN: Interactive Coding Tutorial – HTML/jQuery Basics for a ToDo App(gun.js.org)

    2 points by marknadal 11y ago|0 comments
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Disclosure: I'm the architect for a distributed database. We started building our database because we had similar problems with not being able to accept writes when our Master went down. This is never fun, but you guys seemed pretty we
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Wow, there is a lot of contention in this thread. So first off I want to say congratulations to the author of PostgREST. Getting 2k req/s out of a Heroku free tier is just awesome ontop of all the overhead convenience you provide. Grea
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Yes. Or at least that is the goal. What type of "system" is it? A database. I got fed up having to do maintenance on my database, specifically worrying about having to expand its storage capacity. I'd constantly be woken up i
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Too bad the demo doesn't work, I was really excited for this. Regardless, big congratulations to the Socket.IO team for an awesome feature! And props to Feross for his simple-peer module, he is doing incredible work in the WebRTC world
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    This is the canonical story of databases, I had similar frightening nights several years ago with my MongoDB setup. I'm not a DevOps guy and having to wake up to figure out what is broken (and it always being the database) eventually t
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    I like the idea. Or we could just post some of our tutorials here! This is an introductory one I wrote covering the basics of HTML, jQuery, and making a ToDo app with my database http://gun.js.org/web/think.html .
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    GUN v0.2.0-alpha Release: Streaming Database and P2P Abstractions(gundb.github.io)

    10 points by marknadal 11y ago|0 comments
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    What: Open Source Firebase, http://gunDB.io/ . Realtime, graph, decentralized, javascript database. Stage: Funded, seed stage, with Tim Draper as lead investor. Where: SD, LA, SF, and currently: Provo, Utah. Who: A co-found
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Thanks! I'm the author, happy to answer any questions / would love to hear feedback/feature-requests!
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    Upcoming SQL and MongoDB Query Support in GUN 0.2.X(github.com)

    11 points by marknadal 11y ago|0 comments
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Wow, I am glad that graph stuff is really starting to take off, for all the JavaScript people out there I wrote http://github.com/amark/gun . Great work, I really hope you help usher in the era of graphs!
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    I'm the author of a distributed database, competing with them. Overall I'm refreshingly impressed with their design document. Which I am sad to say that most other databases don't come any where near thinking these things thr
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    Personal curiosity: Do you still use Amazon? They do this behavior. Clarification: It need not even be offline. Even if you are online, there is no way to tell if in the TimeToServer after you clicked the buy button that somebody else hasn&
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    If you now have many centralized systems... Don't you by definition have a distributed system? Or are you saying these are isolated units that never talk to each other? If you say yes, I would again question the legitimacy of the UX.
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    by marknadal 11y ago

    No. If your server is in Virginia and you have a customer on a phone in Jo'burg... they're gonna have one sucky comprised experience. Latency kills, and if you are centralized then your latency goes exponentially up the further aw