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by ram_rar 2y ago
>Limited Retention: Binance was retaining most logs for only a few days. Their goal was to extend this to months, requiring the storage and management of 100 PB of logs, which was prohibitively expensive and complex with their Elasticsea
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by ram_rar 2y ago
Can someone with expertise in frontend development help me understand the proliferation of similar tools in the field? What specific optimizations do these tools offer that others can't, and why can't the slower tools simply adopt
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by ram_rar 2y ago
> How long will service remain available? > Month-to-month customers without an active contract will have until Monday, > September 30th, 2024, 5 PM PDT to off-board. I'd love to hear from someone with expertise in vendor onbo
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by ram_rar 2y ago
IMO, many "microservices" just needed a way to do async processing without needing to hold on to connections, and landed up leveraging msg queues for such use cases. Now this is mostly getting replaced by new orchestration workfl
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by ram_rar 2y ago
For companies like Pinterest, where data storage isn't the core business, should the focus be on building in-house data warehouses or leveraging managed service providers (MSPs)? While building in-house offers control and customization
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by ram_rar 2y ago
https://archive.md/Ih8Oi
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Using ClickHouse to count unique users at scale(segment.com)
2 points by ram_rar 2y ago|0 comments
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by ram_rar 3y ago
I've observed this scenario occur frequently. The lesson I've learned is to remain silent until your new job in the new company stabilizes, and then, after some time, share the news with the world. This gives you 2 things 1. Time
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by ram_rar 3y ago
I'd be thrilled to see a blog post catering to DIY enthusiasts eager to delve into this and explore building this from the ground up.
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by ram_rar 3y ago
I wonder how much mechanical sympathy the Dynamic programming (DP) has as opposed to brute force or other simpler techniques. On paper it seems like a smart technique, in reality, I have rarely seen that being used in critical production sy
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by ram_rar 3y ago
I'm curious about the calculus involved in dedicating oneself to a full-time open-source project. Could someone with prior experience share insights on generating income or potential future exits solely through open-source contribution
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by ram_rar 3y ago
Even after reading this doc [1], I am not clear on who is the target audience and what are you trying to solve? It would be helpful to take a real world example and translate how easy /efficient it would be to do this via RAMA. [1] ht
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by ram_rar 3y ago
This brings back soo many old memories of mine @ Yahoo! . We had soo many tooling - YTS, YCS benchmarks, Vespa, SherpaDb, Pipes, shimproxy the list goes on. Its unfortunate leadership didn't have the foresight to saasify them in a way
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by ram_rar 3y ago
Can someone with a security background enlighten me, on why Python is on the list of "memory safe" languages? Most of the python code I have worked with is a thin wrapper on C. Wouldnt that make python vulnerable as well?
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by ram_rar 3y ago
> Nobody gives a f* about your clean code There is more nuance to this. Soft engs need to realize what stage of product and business lifecycle they are working on. Most importantly, get into the mindset individual contributor not just a
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by ram_rar 3y ago
https://archive.ph/8bNqb
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by ram_rar 3y ago
https://archive.ph/N0MBX
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by ram_rar 3y ago
I wonder how does the compare with dynamodb with DAX for equivalent KV store and similar throughput as a caching service. Its a lot more easier to scale to dynamo to reads and writes without worrying about key ranges etc similar to redis.
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by ram_rar 3y ago
Wow, this brings back soo many old memories of mine @ Yahoo! . Almost a decade ago, vespa inside Yahoo was way ahead of its time. Glad, it finally spun out. I wonder how does this compare with other vector Dbs like pinecone, chroma...
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by ram_rar 3y ago
how do you design avoiding message queues? Or do you use other alternatives around kafka for these things?
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by ram_rar 3y ago
This seems somewhat delayed, and it may be considered too little, too late. Python community had the chance to leapfrog and embrace alternative concurrency abstractions, such as go routines etc, but it appears that this opportunity was not
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by ram_rar 3y ago
I often contemplate whether programming language designers consider the developer experience during the design process. Merely perusing the sample code on their web page causes discomfort in my eyes.
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by ram_rar 3y ago
Love the tool, but its not practical in the enterprise world to have yet another dashboard service to look at just for metrics. It would be great, if this plays well with grafana or Otel collectors. OTOH, monitoring long running background
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by ram_rar 3y ago
Which bank is offering 5.9% APY? Just curious, whats wrong with Sofi?
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by ram_rar 3y ago
Its interesting to see, Goldman sachs equivalent product marcus is only offering 3.9% at the time of writing this. But with apple card, they are offering a much higher rate of 4.15%. I guess, the later is only confined to dollar amount from
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by ram_rar 4y ago
I get a lot of flak for saying this, but I do hope python committers and psf members take a hard look at perl and its demise. Perl had a very similar problem of having N equivalent choices for doing the same thing and python for better or w
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by ram_rar 4y ago
Hard disagree. Especially for backend/infra or any cross team usage. One of my previous company widely popular for crunching logs had starwars esque names for various services and Kubernetes infra. It was a terrible decision, since it
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by ram_rar 4y ago
https://archive.md/MmQ3Y
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by ram_rar 4y ago
> Fast-forward to today, and I am willing to bet good money that 99% of people who are writing software have almost no clue how a CPU actually works, let alone the physics underlying transistor design. I dont fully agree with this. A lot
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by ram_rar 4y ago
I mostly agree with this, especially on senior roles. But what constitutes a short stint? How many short stints does it take to negatively impact future opportunities? Does 2 yrs suffice to demonstrate real impact? There is a lot of grey a

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