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by nlavezzo 13y ago
The boxes are by a company called Zotac. They're like $200 without drives and we put cheap consumer SSD's in them. The monitors are USB powered, and driven by USB - they are from a company called DoubleSight. Funny story - given the amount
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
I'd have to ask one of the guys that put it together for specifics in the morning, but the OS is Ubuntu Linux, and the applications auto launching are of course the FoundationDB server which then connects to the rest of the cluster and begi
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Thanks. We haven't published pricing yet but we are aiming to make it in the ballpark of the hardware & operational costs of the machines required to run a particular size cluster. I.e. if you are running a FoundationDB cluster at 50% l
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Thanks! We thought since it was a hit in person we should share it a bit broader. You mention scale - do know that what you're seeing in the video is probably the weakest FoundationDB cluster ever assembled :) Our in-house testing cluster
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
At 4:40 in the video we do a network partition - which seems to be relevant today in light of the aphyr / Jepsen post. Also covered are single and multiple machine hard power failures, rejoining the cluster, and total cluster power loss and
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FoundationDB Fault Tolerance Demo Video(blog.foundationdb.com)
32 points by nlavezzo 13y ago|15 comments
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Glad to see this point at the end: "16. Have I 'got around' or 'beaten' the CAP theorem? No. You might have designed a system that is not heavily affected by it. That's good." Our thoughts on CAP and how we've dealt with it while building a
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Do you guys offer any kind of evaluation or guarantee around your product? I don't see myself parting with $1,500 based on a relatively summary level description. If it is helpful in the ways it says though, I'd think the price was certainl
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Anyone have any experience with his product - the "PR Hacker Toolbox"? Was it worth the $1,499?
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The Return of ACID in the Design of NoSQL Databases(methodsandtools.com)
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Returning transactions to distributed data stores(strata.oreilly.com)
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
I second this. A great story and it focuses, as the title implies, on the virtues of the warrior. Lots of those virtues can be applied to entrepreneurship, in my opinion.
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
I came to this conclusion between the sophomore and junior years of college when I had the money to take a trip to Italy but none of my friends did. I'd never been further than Mexico, but I did it. Being there alone was exhilarating - almo
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
I'm that guy too. If you really want to throw people for a loop, bring a notebook to thoughtfully write in and snap pictures of your delicious food. I had no idea until after a few times doing this in Italy that everyone was assuming I was
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
If you've got comments or questions for the FoundationDB team on this article, ask away. We're monitoring this thread today.
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The Transaction Manifesto: A Direction for NoSQL Database Technology(databasetube.com)
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
IE8 only, no internet / cell access at work... I'm from the DC area and all of my friends that have these issues work for "the government".
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
This kind of amazing customer care is something every company can aspire to - and not just for the obvious reason of making people smile. This cost LEGO maybe $300 and has netted them an incredible amount of positive press and rekindled emo
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Intel's next gen SSD's look good for databases(anandtech.com)
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
We can all hope so.
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
Yep, those types of operations are less frequent in k/v stores, but we believe it is because of the lack of ACID in most of them. When you have ACID and ordering you can use transactions to keep data and multiple indexes on that data in syn
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
ACID and NoSQL are not mutually exclusive, although that is a common misconception due to the fact that almost all NoSQL databases gave up ACID in exchange for BASE (eventual consistency), making the development of their distributed databas
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
It's interesting to see that the creators of BigTable and the early proponents of eventual consistency have invested the last 4.5 years building a system that adds back strong consistency guarantees. If the Spanner paper is as important as
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
Hi Erich - I'm curious... you refer to your "internal database" doing distributed ACID but state that you're not with Google. Can you say who you're with? It's interesting to us to know who is also working on this problem.
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
Congratulations on shipping - looks like a very well thought out product. Regarding your last comment on high-performance distributed ACID, that's what we've built at FoundationDB, although FoundationDB is a key value store so transactions
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
+1 for Autopager. I love it.
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
FoundationDB - Vienna, VA (DC Suburb) - Evangelist remote, core engineer must be local but we would consider relocation expenses. FoundationDB ( http://foundationdb.com ) is fundamentally new database technology, built completely from the O
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
Here's the full context of the 90% statement: "There's no guarantee, but I see people work pretty hard at school, and if that same effort were put towards the Hustler's MBA, I thnk the chance of being self-sufficient and prepared for "real
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
If you're talking casual play, off and on for a year, then yes it's highly unlikely. If you're taking about spending a good part of a year, reading some of the best books out there (I recommend Harrington on Cash Games Vol. I and II) and th
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
I see what you mean - thanks for the clarification. We'll be working on a FAQ to get up on the website soon, and we'll also be putting up a blog where we'll cover areas of particular interest in detail. I'm sure CAP will be one of the earli

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