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by soamv 5y ago
There is no clear definition with universal agreement. It's a hype-y term applied with... varying levels of rigor. However, roughly speaking, "serverless" rolls together 3 features: 1. Fine grained pay-per-use (e.g. pay for a
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by soamv 5y ago
Hi there HN, This is a prototype of something that lets you build AWS Step Functions in regular Python code. I think step functions are very neat, but have a suboptimal programming interface (essentially an assembly language in JSON). Howev
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Show HN: Cohesion: Build serverless workflows in Python(preview.cohesion.dev)
1 points by soamv 5y ago|2 comments
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by soamv 6y ago
It's true that they're conservative, but there have been non-trivial forks in its history. If a fork proves itself by doing something significant that the original can't or won't, things can get interesting! I wouldn&#x2
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by soamv 6y ago
I'm so perplexed that someone would feel the need to attack an open source developer for a gentle suggestion of an optional donation. You're free to pretend there's a constrained license, and pay the project for their work. A
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by soamv 6y ago
Maybe VMware? There was a paper about how, in some cases, emulation was faster than hardware virtualization support. This was way back when intel's hardware virtualization support was new and VMware had already spent years optimizing
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by soamv 6y ago
Because people use it. It's been around a while and has an ecosystem around it. (This is the interesting thing about AWS, they keep the focus on what people do use, rather than some opinionated idea of what they should use.)
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by soamv 6y ago
I wonder how it compares to astronomer.io, and Google's managed airflow thing.
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AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow(aws.amazon.com)
118 points by soamv 6y ago|67 comments
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by soamv 6y ago
Not _just_ placebo. If you tend to favor very closed positions, or end up placing pawns in ways that make your bishops useless, then the knight might be better sometimes, even though the general idea of bishop > knight is correct.
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by soamv 6y ago
And yet, snowflake
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by soamv 6y ago
Wait how is github actions a BYO-agent system? I thought you can only run actions on github's infra?
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by soamv 6y ago
They have a conference going on (see the banner at the top of nextjs.org), so they're launching a bunch of new stuff.
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by soamv 6y ago
This is a fantastic comment, thank you for it. > Kafka publishers habit of lying to their clients I have no Kafka expertise but it feels like there ought to be a Kafka configuration option somewhere that tells it not to do that? (And in
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by soamv 6y ago
Yes, the throughput results are pretty great, as is this work in general. It's worth noting the memory usage, though -- "Go’s garbage collector needs a factor of 2 to 3 of heap headroom to run efficiently (see section 8.6)".
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by soamv 6y ago
The comment you're replying to does not describe a process list. Users do understand the concept of apps, obviously. A log of "App X used the camera", "App Y accessed your location" is well within what non-tech-sav
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by soamv 6y ago
There's a really interesting hour-long interview (more of a monologue really, heh) with Kramnik about no-castling chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPe6xQjO98Q
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by soamv 6y ago
Thanks for your answers. > 2 I don't mean literally generating hspec from yaml -- I mean more like operational "source map" support. For example if I look at a pod taking up more CPU than I expect in a dashboard somewhere
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by soamv 6y ago
Congrats on this launch, it's great to see serious efforts at Kubernetes simplification and I hope you succeed! K8s bills itself as a "platform for platforms", and such projects are a real test of that idea. Questions: 1. Ho
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by soamv 6y ago
I don't think people understand the vastness of resources that FB and Instagram have at their disposal. This is not a particularly hard problem. Yes it's not a simple SQL query. But they do solve it -- in fact this was a bug th
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by soamv 6y ago
This article dives much deeper than I expected. It sounds like a fantastic resource for a manager, especially in a startup, but a lot of it also relevant for tech leads.
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by soamv 6y ago
direct link to paper (pdf): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc20-maruf.pdf
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by soamv 6y ago
Right, you package up your dependencies. That doesn't mean you don't have any! Anyway, what I'm getting at is, the platform has to load a bunch of code, sometimes that will take longer than the latency that you can hide behi
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by soamv 6y ago
Preloading functions is a good strategy, but claims of "eliminating cold starts" and "zero overhead" are a bit hyperbolic. I don't know enough about cloudflare workers, but function cold start latencies are not full
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by soamv 6y ago
AWS is not a great place for small projects that you want to set up quickly. There are a lot of options with a much more lightweight setup experience: zeit/vercel, netlify, digitalocean, firebase.
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by soamv 6y ago
> Most of the people writing OSS do it for fun/side project/to solve a problem, not for the money. Not to pick on you personally, but this sort of assertion is often thrown around with no data. It's not even clear to me t
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by soamv 6y ago
Turns out to be a somewhat annoying problem at the VM level. Not impossible but complex enough that maybe higher-level solutions like functions are better. Consider memory usage -- but operating systems (and some applications) are designed
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by soamv 6y ago
I'm so glad this realization is the top comment on HN. I think Fizzbuzz can be actually a reverse test: if an experienced programmer can fail fizzbuzz in an interview, then maybe it's the interviewer who screwed up.
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by soamv 6y ago
Direct link to the paper: http://chrisparnin.me/pdf/stress_FSE_20.pdf
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by soamv 6y ago
Why doesn't the same idea of adding a type keyword work there too? a, b := w<type x,y>(z)

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