pentlander

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by pentlander 2y ago
Hi Tim, I sent you a message from the email in my profile about two weeks ago but haven’t heard back yet. I’m definitely interested!
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by pentlander 2y ago
I’m pretty sure that Lucene is exactly the same, the segments it creates are immutable and Elastic is what handles a “mutable” view of the data. Which makes sense because Tantivy is like Lucene, not ES. https://lucene.apache.org&
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by pentlander 5y ago
Roc is trying to fill this space: https://www.roc-lang.org/
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by pentlander 5y ago
I started upgrading some of the Docker images from Java 8 to Java 16 at work without touching the compiler. The changes I had to make to the code were fairly minimal, bump the version on a couple libraries and change the JVM flags on the He
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by pentlander 5y ago
Some quick feedback on the mobile layout, there isn't a lot of the actual blog post text visible due to the margins. I would suggest allowing the url and text to span the full width of the page. Also I would increase the margin between
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by pentlander 6y ago
Is it PG? If so, I was an intern at the time and you were gone once I joined full time.
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by pentlander 6y ago
As another ex-Glacier dev, I disagree with it not being "all that hard" but I agree with everything else. Now I'm curious who this is :)
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by pentlander 6y ago
Though I no longer work for Amazon, I'm reasonably certain they use it from the description. Especially given I know for a fact that other more foundational services use it. Why is it a "relic of years gone by"? Consul uses a
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by pentlander 6y ago
Yeah Amazon still runs on Coral, there were some recent (release a few years ago) advances on it under the hood and ergonomically. I think the "replacement" for it is Smithy[0] though it will likely just replace the XML schema and
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by pentlander 6y ago
The hand rolled gossip protocol (DFDD) is not used for consensus, it's just used for cluster membership and health information. It's used by pretty much every foundational AWS service. There's a separate internal service for
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by pentlander 6y ago
Ah right I misspoke. I was conflating it with the common case, which is that one of the deps for versionset's target was changed. I agree with your other comment, the first year or so I just cargo culted Brazil and versionset changes u
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by pentlander 6y ago
Not the OP but I am currently working at a company moving towards a Bazel monorepo and I previously worked at Amazon. For me the lightbulb of "this is a great system" didn't click until I actually left Amazon. Compared to Gra
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by pentlander 6y ago
I don't think that's true, internally there was a long term plan to bring cloudwatch up to par with internal metrics and alarming systems. At the time when I left Amazon, there were some shims to use internal dashboards and alarms
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by pentlander 6y ago
Probably because that C code is the embedded Lua interpreter. See the lua.h file, there's the copyright notice at the bottom.
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by pentlander 11y ago
There's also a lightweight menu bar for X11 systems called bar. https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar
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by pentlander 12y ago
I agree, a lot of people tout how functional programming is easier to both read and write, but this really puts things in perspective. I especially like how he explains how the different standard functional functions work in very simple ter