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by redwood 5y ago
By relational data do you mean data that has no nesting or arrays? Or data that you always want to query with a join? Something else?
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by redwood 5y ago
What's ethnicity got to do with this?
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by redwood 5y ago
I think it's a refreshingly mature section, And my hats off to you for going there. Unfortunately I don't think the typical reader who I really do believe loves Jepsen outrage porn is going there
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by redwood 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious to hear which database is the winner from your perspective based on Jepsen's insight?
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by redwood 5y ago
But the contrived nature of Jepsen tests is so different than the real world. In the real world no system behaves exactly the same as it was designed to behave; the real world has cosmic rays, earthquakes and everything in between. So no st
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by redwood 5y ago
I respectfully disagree. Human language and characteristics around distributed data stores in the real world have inherent ambiguity implicit in them that Jepsen in my view pretends isn't the case. Here's an analogy that may help
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by redwood 5y ago
I have a pretty much opposite perspective on Jepsen than most of the folks here. My feeling is that essentially no distributed system is perfect or without trade offs (and certainly no single node system is perfect and wothout tradeoffs) an
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by redwood 5y ago
I don't see how that could possibly be true. AWS must be much bigger than Facebook
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by redwood 5y ago
Hard with wider friend network, family, even work colleagues
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by redwood 5y ago
They really have us trapped with WhatsApp… difficult to figure out how to get off this platform
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by redwood 5y ago
Great point
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by redwood 5y ago
Well FB is the new Phillip Morris so it's relative
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by redwood 5y ago
This is in the context of essentially a bug bounty for data loss issues that they were running… sounds like a NASA administrator saying something like "show us how our rocket will fail"
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by redwood 5y ago
It's that kind of belief that gives a founder drive tho
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by redwood 5y ago
Don't take it to heart that people will happily create a narrative just to get karma points. Could you have better optimized your personal brand? Maybe. Could you have also done the engineering you've done if you had? Who knows. D
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by redwood 5y ago
Do rockets sometimes blow up on the launch pad? Yes. Does that mean they shouldn't have tried to build a rocket ship? Have you tried to build a data layer engine? This kind of attitude is so one dimensional from my perspective... they
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by redwood 5y ago
The level of negativity on HN around hard engineering problems like data stores...it's really unforgiving here.
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by redwood 5y ago
Squeezed out my ARM frankly since it's captured the imagination as the next server platform
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by redwood 5y ago
Your example really summarizes the challenge with the AWS paradigm: namely that they want you to believe that the thing to do is to spread the the backend of your application across a large number of distinct data systems. No one uses Dynam
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by redwood 5y ago
Yet zorastrianism is one of the earliest quasi monotheistic religions
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by redwood 5y ago
DynamoDB is a key value store so forces you into an up-front waterfall design model where you can't easily evolve your schemas. This has massively weakened the scenarios where it can be used but there's a survivor bias where if th
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Will the cloud business eat the 5G telecoms industry?(economist.com)
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by redwood 5y ago
Oh right Scylla! I have to say, it's remarkable that there are two independent companies dividing the already small C* space (they and Datastax)
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by redwood 5y ago
Okay thanks for clarifying. Many of us refer to what you're describing as our conscience
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by redwood 5y ago
Seemed like they had some traction in MSFT shops 5-6 years ago, guessing they hit some synergies in the .NET ecosystem?
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by redwood 5y ago
Sure Fauna are interesting with their serverless traction. Arango is another one, seems to target Germany maybe kind of like SUSE
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by redwood 5y ago
Great list. One omission I'm certainly tracking is Fauna
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by redwood 5y ago
I assumed you were against regulating crypto and hence wondered if you were keen to see all finserv regulations removed
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by redwood 5y ago
Out of curiosity do you support removing most financial services and market regulations that exist in the default economy today?
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by redwood 5y ago
The continuous availability and horizontal scalability of the distributed system coupled with developer experience--document model, secondary indexes, all of that certainly has captivated a large and growing developer community… you could b

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