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by rbranson 11y ago
I guess all the other huge venture-funded tech companies made the same mistake?
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by rbranson 11y ago
Curious about the specifics with how you interfaced Go with Rust.
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by rbranson 11y ago
Wow. Delphi was one of the first programming environments that I found was productive. It's amazing that the company has continued to chug along in the face of the web, mobile apps, massively dominant platform players like Microsoft an
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How to Survive an Acquisition(charity.wtf)
276 points by rbranson 11y ago|127 comments
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by rbranson 11y ago
A few months ago there was a great blog post by the Instagram team on their particularly advanced flavor of this for their continuous integration. Highly recommend: https://engineering.instagram.com/posts/49604961056194
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by rbranson 11y ago
Isn't one of the main benefits of something like Firebase or Parse that you don't have to run it? It's nice that Kinto packages the stack together and provides plug-and-play APIs, but there's quite a bit of expertise and
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by rbranson 11y ago
It doesn't seem like Twitter has a hard time monetizing. They have a much harder time growing their user base.
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by rbranson 11y ago
Sorry for the misinformation then. Thanks for clearing this up.
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by rbranson 11y ago
FWIW jut.io shut down the day after this was posted. https://twitter.com/PurpleQuark/status/661274501728964608
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by rbranson 11y ago
Founders probably aren't able to hire because they can't get enough money from investors to pay market salaries or because their company just plain sucks. Maybe they think that because they've convinced investors that they&#x
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by rbranson 11y ago
I was part of the team that designed this. AMA.
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by rbranson 12y ago
There aren't very many large tech companies that publish compensation information in job postings, so I used Uber's job posting. Equity requires belief in any company's valuation. I'm not here to argue about Uber's
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by rbranson 12y ago
I'd agree with these numbers in 2012 or maybe 2013, but engineering comp has gone bonkers in the Bay Area. Uber has published comp for engineers[1] that put them starting at $110K/yr + $410K in equity. Presuming a 4-year cliff tha
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by rbranson 12y ago
This. Talented young engineers should probably never work for early-stage startups. It's unlikely for them to be able to effectively gauge the quality of an employer, they have little leverage to bargain for equity, and it's highl
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by rbranson 12y ago
This is nothing like a Ponzi scheme, which is where new investments are used to pay off old investments, and investors are kept in the dark. Old investors get nothing additional from this kind of deal besides maybe a chance to liquidate a s
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by rbranson 12y ago
You shouldn't be doing read-modify-write cycles in memcached. It's use is as a demand-filled, look-aside cache. Modern open source memcached has slab reallocation that works quite well. It certainly beats a malloc() heap, which wi
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by rbranson 12y ago
It goes to the short-term garages attached to the International Terminal, just not the new long-term garage way out yonder.
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by rbranson 12y ago
To elaborate: twemproxy supports auto_eject_hosts, but the host is removed from the ring until a timeout and it's portion of the keyspace is re-allocated to other machines during this time. There are numerous problems with this, but th
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by rbranson 12y ago
One of the primary reasons we switched to it at Instagram (we were using twemproxy) is that it has much more robust failure handling than twemproxy did, at least at the time. That may have changed. Our experience was that if we lost a singl
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by rbranson 12y ago
One thing that may not have come across in the post is that one of the reasons we moved into VPC first is that Direct Connect is basically just a big dump pipe to AWS without VPC in place. Without VPC, there's no way to advertise route
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by rbranson 12y ago
Are you saying that Amazon would divide up it's own IPv6 address space and provide a subnet for each customer? That's really the only way it would work for our situation. I'm not sold that Amazon would actually have any motiv
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by rbranson 12y ago
Agree in principle, but it's unlikely for Amazon to ever force customers to allocate addresses from their own IPv6 block to begin with. Like many other startups, Instagram started with the bare-minimum setup outside of VPC, and scaled
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by rbranson 12y ago
For a database it would be not having a load balancer at all and performing connection pooling / failover at the client.
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by rbranson 13y ago
I know Chipotle uses immersion circulators, but the scale of their use is a far cry from "almost every restaurant." Taco Bell most certainly does not use immersion circulators.
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by rbranson 13y ago
How many reads do you do on that server? 192GB + 8 SSDs is a pretty serious setup. Just the disks themselves should be able to push 500K+ random IOPS.
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Amazon Web Services Spotathon(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by rbranson 13y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 13y ago
In general, valuation reflects anticipation of future potential, not present performance. This is what's called "investment."
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by rbranson 13y ago
Go's garbage collector is exclusively stop-the-world, so it seems like this is going to die in a fire pretty quickly with a non-trivial heap size (more than 1GB). HotSpot's CMS collector (which is parallel & concurrent) has a
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by rbranson 13y ago
This appears to be connectivity issues entirely to/from the Internet or other EC2 regions from a single availability zone in us-east-1. The intra-AZ networks within us-east-1 have remained available during the event. One of the AZs we
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by rbranson 13y ago
Finding corner cases is the point of Jepsen :)

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