tedjdziuba

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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
This sounds like something that's been painfully over-engineered. One of the main problems they solve is "distributed RPC", from TFA: "There are a lot of queries that are both hard to precompute and too intense to compute on the fly on a si
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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
Oh cool, so now I can host my app in one data center and have it make DB calls across the open internet to another DB server! But wait, there's more! It's over a stateless protocol: HTTP, with really poor multiplexing/pipelining support. La
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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
> It's typically difficult, if not impossible, to scale up and down your engineering team in the way you can spawn up new cloud servers. We're trying to change that by having a reliable source of contract engineers who can help us grow
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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
Gladwell is to science what homeopathy is to medicine.
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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
"The idea of replacing spark plugs - a technology that has changed little since their invention 150 years ago - with lasers is not a new one." There's a reason that spark plug technology has not changed in 150 years: it works. The mechanism
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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
No, presumably if you're in a highrise, you are not running a retail business and your employees can work from home. It's an impact, but not a material one. A better analogy would be setting up a retail shop on a busy street where every now
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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
They are scaling in the cloud, at least.
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by tedjdziuba 15y ago
Reddit being down is not news.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
I stopped reading at "static assets in memcached, telling nginx how to get them". Lrn2CDN, or Lrn2LinuxPageCache
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
In Soviet Russia, regex starts you.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Sigh. Those who abandon Unix principles deserve whatever they get.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
So if the elephant were dead by the hand of a poor African, it would be okay in your eyes? Income seems like an arbitrary factor to determine whether or not it is morally acceptable to kill an animal.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
All of AWS, really. My experiences with EC2 were abysmal: unpredictable CPU and disk performance, uselessly slow disk I/O, instances dropping off the face of the earth at least once a week. Reddit's recent downtime is a good indicator of ho
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Thanks for your reply. If you're not going to buy your own metal, then with that much cash, you're probably going to hire an army of systems administrators to be oncall for your customers, eh?
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
With a round that big, it looks like Dotcloud is going to buy their own hardware and become a full bore hosting company, which is fantastic, if it can convince people to move out of the EC2 slum. Either that, or the founders took too much m
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Me three.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Damn, I was hoping to sign up and start paying you money, but since you're not launched yet, chances are I will forget about this service by the time you do launch.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
I applied to YC and at one point during the pitch, pg said to me, in his best R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket voice, "Hell, I like you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister!" True story.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Yeah, that's it. Lease everything, don't own any assets. Let me know how that works out for you.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Seems like a lot of effort to avoid using cron.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Why would you want to do that? This isn't MongoDB, the real world cares about durability.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
> We could make some speculation about the disks possibly losing writes when Postgres flushed commits to disk, but we have no proof to determine what happened. If you read between the lines, this says that EBS lies about the result of f
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
tl;dr: I'm vested. Peace, bitches!
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Parse Error.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
www.webpagetest.org is what you are looking for.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
"...The Aristocrats!"
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
"How I Run a Website with Swap On"
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Five Ideas with Microscopic Target Markets
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Getting further along in the process of re-inventing SQL, I see.
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by tedjdziuba 16y ago
Shenanigans. The author says that MySQL/Tokyo Tyrant don't work because of "death by I/O". Right, well, if your data set fits in memory, which I assume it does because you're relying on Redis, and the Redis VM feature is ghastly, then your

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