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by ozgune 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230326005354/https://www.nytim...
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You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills(nytimes.com)
3 points by ozgune 4y ago|1 comments
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by ozgune 4y ago
Yes, this could be hyperbole or my memory misleading me. I'm not Russian and it's hard to find good resources on this topic from the time. I found the following article from the Associated Press. It looks like Gorbachev said that
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by ozgune 4y ago
I read "Gorbachev: His Life and Times" almost randomly five years ago. I'm going off of memory, but my primary takeaway from the book was your comment. Gorbachev believed in Western ideals, maybe a bit too much. The Western l
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by ozgune 4y ago
+1 on Jelte's sentiment Btw HN, if you share the sentiment about more open source, please feel free to star us on GitHub :)
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by ozgune 4y ago
Related HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31046791
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by ozgune 5y ago
I think it’s a stretch to say the Eastern Roman Empire lost its ability to project power in the Mediterranean by mid-600s. During the Macedonian Dynasty (867-1056), they were arguably still the dominant power. Arab-Byzantine Wars lasted fo
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by ozgune 5y ago
Quick curiosity question. Why do you find The Economist’s coverage of Africa and the Middle East leaps and bounds better than others? Here’s why I’m asking. I find The Economist’s coverage of the US a 7/10 and Turkey a 3/10. Havin
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by ozgune 5y ago
(Ozgun from Citus / Microsoft) Hi there, thanks for mentioning Citus. Could you share a bit more about the user experience you're looking for with sharding? With Citus, you create your Postgres table as-is. If you'd like for
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Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications (SIGMOD '21)(dl.acm.org)
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by ozgune 5y ago
> I view NFTs as one of the dumbest things to come out of the crypto space. I see the use cases, but frankly I don’t think it’s innovative nor does it solve something in a really unique way. I think the original comment isn’t arguing tha
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by ozgune 5y ago
I've been driving in the US for 16 years. The "left turn on green" is still the most non-intuitive part about driving here. As a driver, when you have a green light, you need to pay attention to giving priority to incoming tr
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by ozgune 5y ago
Yes, Chris was pretty cool. Just to clarify, the engineer in that meeting was Peter Vosshall. I wanted to quote the sentence about Amazon rather than the person. Also, I was a newbie at the time (probably still am) & I consider myself l
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by ozgune 5y ago
> Chris eventually went to Amazon and brought Berkeley DB with him there, so we became one of the first backing stores for Amazon's Dynamo key-value store. BDB was impressive in that you’d file a bug with them & they would have
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The Case for Shared Nothing (1985) [pdf](dsf.berkeley.edu)
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by ozgune 5y ago
(Ozgun, Citus co-founder) That's a good point. Sharding has an interesting trade-off. Early on, you don't need it and there's an overhead to distributing work across multiple machines (you're taking an additional network
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by ozgune 5y ago
Hi there, author here. I'm happy to answer any questions about the blog post (re: our Postgres 14 contributions, how to make extensions compatible with new major PG versions, and the managed service architecture that enables rolling ou
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by ozgune 6y ago
Yes, that’s right. In Citus 8, the coordinator node would run stored procedures. Citus 9.x introduced changes to push down stored procedures to worker nodes. So, if your stored procedures mostly touches local shards, Citus 9 significantly c
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by ozgune 6y ago
Minor clarification note. Andres wrote two blog posts on Postgres' connection scalability behavior. Part 1 analyzed current bottlenecks in Postgres 13 (this blog post) and Part 2 described the work done in Postgres 14 to make improveme
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Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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by ozgune 7y ago
(Former Amazonian, part of the team that drove the change to SOA at the time) > Now I think that this internal email is what has actually stuck with me the most. Bezos realized that he had to change the internal communication infrastruc
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by ozgune 7y ago
Also, quick clarification note related to the GDP numbers. Erdogan has been Turkey's Prime Minister since 2003 (head of the executive branch). In 2014, Erdogan was elected as President. In 2017, Turkey went through a constitutional ref
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pg_auto_failover: Postgres extension for auto failover and high-availability(github.com)
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by ozgune 8y ago
It's worth noting that the term Byzantine was invented in late 16th century, way after the empire collapsed. Between 330-1453 AD, it was called the Roman Empire. To this day, the Greek ethnic minority living in Istanbul call themselves
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by ozgune 8y ago
I agree that $1/yr would shove off majority of users off the app. That said, I think WhatsApp could get to revenues of $1-3B per year because of the following: * I pay $60/mo for my AT&T line. I do the majority of my communica
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by ozgune 8y ago
Pre-Facebook, WhatsApp's monetization strategy has been to charge users a nominal fee for usage ($1/year). And $1/yr with 1B users doesn't justify the price tag for Facebook. So Facebook wanted to introduce advertising.
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by ozgune 9y ago
(Ozgun from Citus Data) What really excites me about this blog post is how PostgreSQL is becoming central across diverse workloads - including real-time analytics. A few Postgres resources that relate to this blog post are the following. 1.
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by ozgune 9y ago
Yes, we certainly are: https://www.citusdata.com/jobs When you're sharing your resume, please feel free to mention this thread.
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by ozgune 9y ago
It's actually both of these reasons, with reason (1) being the primary one. PostgreSQL allows interactive transaction blocks (meaning you don't have to submit all commands within a transaction block upfront). Citus extends Postgre

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