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by ryanworl 7y ago
For those wondering, since CockroachDB is not mentioned by name here, the post [1] from the same author on his own site does explicitly mention CockroachDB. "However, (unlike Google Spanner) CockroachDB does not wait for the maximum cl
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by ryanworl 7y ago
I've been donating to Zig since long before this announcement. Andrew is free to do what he wishes with the money.
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by ryanworl 7y ago
Zig is a great project that I am very happy to support with $50/month on Patreon. Andrew consistently communicates progress and gives periodic updates on Twitch/YouTube. I don't have any relationship with Andrew other than I
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I'm donating $150/month to the musl libc project(andrewkelley.me)
115 points by ryanworl 7y ago|12 comments
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by ryanworl 7y ago
This is do-able with FoundationDB. You could distribute your application colocated with the database nodes and write a router to redirect requests to the machine which owns the data you're looking for. Then your application logic is co
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by ryanworl 7y ago
I've had FiOS issues in PA since around 6:30AM impacting a decent fraction of sites. YouTube was down for about 5 minutes. Slack still very flaky. A client who hosts a 5-figure number of domains on Cloudflare still unavailable to me, b
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by ryanworl 7y ago
Yes. This is the plague of modern software. It is all over the place. So much software today spends all its time chasing pointers, using the cache poorly, and branching wildly. You won't see these aspects of poor design on a sampling p
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by ryanworl 7y ago
Dictionary encoding strings to integers is a common compression technique. In GC'd languages it fakes out the garbage collector because your dictionary codes are essentially pointers but not actually pointers from the GC's perspec
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by ryanworl 7y ago
@aphyr: "We have not evaluated filesystem or disk faults with TiDB, and cannot speak to crash recovery. Nor have we tested dynamic membership changes. Both might be fruitful avenues of investigation for future research." How do yo
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by ryanworl 7y ago
What is the backing storage for Workers KV? In the other post today discussing it going GA, the post describes the database as last write wins. How is "last" determined? Have you explored other consistency models? If all writes ar
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by ryanworl 7y ago
Is Tailscale building a logging product?
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by ryanworl 7y ago
You can do both! Use a basic sampling approach (recommended by Honeycomb and others) to sample e.g. one percent or less of your “boring” transactions, 10% of your suspect transactions, and all of your errors. By suspect I mean too slow by s
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by ryanworl 7y ago
They do not use the phrase exactly-once delivery as far as I’ve seen, they say “exactly-once semantics”. And this is referring to a specific set of Kafka features that you previously had to build yourself if you used Kafka. I have not seen
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by ryanworl 7y ago
This is a distortion of history. No one paid these rates. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 eliminated, reduced, or modified the deductions the people that would've paid these rates were previously allowed. Additionally, the wealthiest indivi
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Using FoundationDB as the Bedrock for Your Distributed Systems – Episode 80(dataengineeringpodcast.com)
7 points by ryanworl 7y ago|0 comments
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by ryanworl 7y ago
That is still a useful tool in Go, but you don’t need to use it as much as you’d think. The GC is pretty good at short-lived objects. The canonical implementation is sync.Pool if you don’t want to build one yourself.
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by ryanworl 7y ago
I've been supporting this project on Patreon for $30/month for 10(?) months now and it is remarkable how much progress has been made. Replacing C would be quite a revolution, but I hope it happens.
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FoundationDB, One Year Later(foundationdb.org)
3 points by ryanworl 7y ago|0 comments
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by ryanworl 8y ago
https://www.pulumi.com/
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by ryanworl 8y ago
Why did you choose Clojure?
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by ryanworl 8y ago
This was probably in development before FoundationDB was open sourced, but this is exactly the type of system where FoundationDB shines. A developer from Apple did a talk at the FoundationDB Summit describing Apple’s metadata store for mach
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by ryanworl 8y ago
While FoundationDB uses Paxos for cluster state (like leader election), it is not on the commit path for a transaction. If any process fails in the transaction system (not storage processes), the cluster is reconfigured by the coordinators
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by ryanworl 8y ago
Where I used to live on 78th St near the East River there is a park called John Jay Park. It is behind two different schools. There would be literally hundreds of children playing daily in that park when the weather was nice, and usually a
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by ryanworl 8y ago
Range reads do create conflict ranges for the entire range even if you use offsets. Not only does it create the conflict range, I think it actually does the work of reading the data, it just isn’t returned to you. This is why it is an O(N)
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by ryanworl 8y ago
This looks accurate except for the characterization that FoundationDB does not offer strict serializability and/or external consistency. It does. See 12:10 of this video from the FoundationDB Summit: https://youtu.be/EM
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by ryanworl 8y ago
FoundationDB assumes your clients are located close by in latency terms. It is not a geographically distributed database. You need to contact a machine to get a timestamp before you can read. You can build a layer with non-interactive trans
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by ryanworl 8y ago
What were the differences between the Go and Rust versions that led you to choose the Rust version in the end?
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by ryanworl 8y ago
To summarize the join-depth problem as you describe, it is because other solutions use hash partitioning instead of range partitioning to distribute data? i.e. if all S/P/O were stored in sorted order such that a given S/P&#x
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by ryanworl 8y ago
What is the orchestration layer for this? I saw a few DO people at the FoundationDB Summit, but that probably wasn’t related and you’re just using ZooKeeper ;)
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InfluxData Raises $60M Series D(influxdata.com)
5 points by ryanworl 8y ago|0 comments

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