swaranga

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by swaranga 6y ago
>Outside of a book, do we still read code from top to bottom? This one I disagree with. We frequently read code in a browser, as part of a pull request or just exploring a repo.
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by swaranga 6y ago
They must know that the software is opinionated. The question is whether people who would pay 99$ a year for email would be the ones okay with the lack of flexibility.
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by swaranga 6y ago
COPY api in Postgres avoids a lot of the query parsing and other stuff that takes up cpu time. I have used it in production and have seen great results. There are cases where the COPY api is not sufficient. For instance it cannot do the ON
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by swaranga 6y ago
When has AWS killed a service? Usually that does not happen. SimpleDB had been deprecated for years and is not even shown in the console or marketing pages and yet its existing customers continue to use it. This is just one of the examples.
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by swaranga 7y ago
One thing to consider with AWS is that a lot of the services are designed with multiple levels of isolation and independence beyond the region/availability zones. So a service that fails even 100 % for one customer may not fail even on
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Ask HN: Why is weather forecasting such a demanding workload
1 points by swaranga 7y ago|2 comments
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by swaranga 7y ago
I had been a Windows phone user for 3 years from 2009 to 2012 (HTC HD7, Nokia Lumia 800 and 920). Then switched to android for 7 years. Had a OnePlus One, <one more android here>, then a Google Nexus 6p, a Motorola ( solely for a 5000
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by swaranga 7y ago
Can I read about how the time series nature of the data allows the storage engines to optimize different parts of the system compared to generic databases? Some links? Papers? Interested to know.
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Flogger: A new Java logging library from Google(google.github.io)
1 points by swaranga 7y ago|0 comments
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by swaranga 10y ago
It can and has been done (an internal library exists in Amazon) with minimal effort.
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by swaranga 10y ago
>> S-Expressions >>Okay? Is that useful Yes, super useful. Depends on how your application needs to use S-expressions. You could define DSLs for a very expressive and complex rules-engine with S-Expressions forming your rules. N
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by swaranga 10y ago
I am still in Amazon and Ion is definitely the most widely used library around. It has among the best documented code and some of the extensions that have been built on top of Ion are simply amazing.