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by mrkurt 5y ago
It is pretty boring. But "the most boring possible way to build globally distributed postgres" is interesting, I think.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
We need to optimize this. Right now, the edge proxy handles the replay request. So if you hit SJC and a server in LAX handles the request (which is probably what's happening for you), you pay the SJC -> LAX latency penalty before th
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by mrkurt 5y ago
We observed two things from developers when we started working on this: 1. The first thing we did was give them CockroachDB. Modeling data for geo distributed Cockroach is conceptually similar to yugabyte. It's not easy, though, to do
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Our postgres clusters are just a Fly app: https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha You could run your own PG by modifying that app. Right now we're calling it "automated" and not managed, though. All aler
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by mrkurt 5y ago
It's better, but still beta. We handle backups and you can connect directly to psql. We also added migration support as part of app releases. The global distribution feature, though, works with any database, not just our postgres. Betw
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by mrkurt 5y ago
There's a little more context here: https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...
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by mrkurt 5y ago
It sure ruins the illusion of "being at peace". Laying there and just slowly fading away? Peaceful. Getting stirred up so you break down faster? Ick. I'll probably get over it but I had a similar visceral reaction.
548.
by mrkurt 5y ago
I'm sorry for your loss. I got a lot out of reading this comment and I appreciate that you shared it.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Derivative works get copyright protection.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Webhooks are easy-ish to send and retry. Building the UX to help users successfully use webhooks is not simple. You need debugging tools, retry handling, notifications when they break (but not the first time they break, when they break repe
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by mrkurt 5y ago
The US has created so much bureaucracy, it's hard to imagine clawing ourselves out from under it.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Wow this is really smart. Extrapolating "developer happiness" is a great idea.
553.
by mrkurt 5y ago
This is super cool. We know way more about Docker than we should now, but it seems like you could instrument local Docker for some teams.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
It's a filter in the sales funnel, often intentionally. "Contact us for pricing" tells everyone what they need to know – either you have a big budget and are not price sensitive, or you're self service and this product i
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by mrkurt 5y ago
You've only got about 30-35 valuable hours per week. Beyond that and your time is approaching $0/hour of value.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
The uPlot change is amazing. The canvas based stuff seems so fast.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
We don't spend more per capita on education and healthcare _from federal tax money_. These costs are mostly born by wage workers paying either property taxes (again, taxing their primary means of wealth generation) or paying through th
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by mrkurt 5y ago
The trick is to cash out by dying. You can do this by living off loans against your unrealized capital gains. These then get paid off at your death, and there are all kinds of "simple" ways to keep estate untaxed.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
You do own taxes if you find a diamond. You don't owe taxes if you buy a rock for $10 and it increases in value to $50m. If you want to keep something you find and can't afford to because of taxes, you either get a loan or have to
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Yes, people like it (for a while). This is why it works. But it gives Amazon more tools to abuse their market power. The cost is high though. Amazon is already much lower quality than they were 10 years ago.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
They don't want to be wrong. And their reasons for not investing are usually "haven't seen enough proof" or "don't have conviction about the market". Reasons you can't respond to and are, usually, sa
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Building Regex.help(maciej.gryka.net)
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by mrkurt 5y ago
This runs on 256mb VMs and works well even when it gets busy: https://liveview-counter.fly.dev And I'm biased, but we are a pretty good place to run an Elixir app: https://fly.io/docs/getting-started&#x
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Oh that's a great improvement.
565.
by mrkurt 5y ago
This is unbelievably harsh, and "your landing page sucks" is the most boring comment people can make on HN posts.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
Vicky isolates tenants into their own "shards" so we mostly don't have to worry about it. It's also pretty good at high cardinality.
567.
by mrkurt 5y ago
We looked at Cortex but running a Cassandra cluster was a little too much for us. I don't think we saw M3 until after we'd started using VictoriaMetrics.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
It's not a one time event, each host that runs a container image needs to pull it at least once. Minimizing pulls is a good optimization but you have to work pretty hard to really cut them down.
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by mrkurt 5y ago
> Normally you just use a regular Prometheus server to do this. Why add another, different technology to the stack? Our physical hosts have hundreds of services exporting metrics. And many of those exported metrics are from untrusted sou
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by mrkurt 5y ago
excalidraw.com It's pretty great, we're happy plus subscribers.

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