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by wwilson 3y ago
No comment. :-) Disclosure: I am a co-founder of Antithesis.
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Is something bugging you?(antithesis.com)
1179 points by wwilson 3y ago|418 comments
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Source filtering with file sets(tweag.io)
27 points by wwilson 3y ago|5 comments
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What to Do If a Nuclear Disaster Is Imminent(ki4u.com)
101 points by wwilson 4y ago|160 comments
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Review of Memoir by NASA’s Lori Garver(politico.com)
2 points by wwilson 4y ago|0 comments
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Powering a Lunar base with Earth-based microwave transmission(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
1 points by wwilson 4y ago|0 comments
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by wwilson 5y ago
Funny given that Starlink itself has potential to be one giant synthetic aperture radar installation. From Casey Handmer’s excellent post ( https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/science-upside... ): “St
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Starship is still not understood(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
309 points by wwilson 5y ago|362 comments
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Sigmod 2021 Best Papers(2021.sigmod.org)
2 points by wwilson 5y ago|0 comments
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The Sad End of Jack Ma Inc(forbes.com)
56 points by wwilson 5y ago|30 comments
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FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf](foundationdb.org)
283 points by wwilson 5y ago|99 comments
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FoundationDB: A Distributed, Unbundled, Transactional Key Value Store [pdf](foundationdb.org)
4 points by wwilson 5y ago|0 comments
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Against the Managers(thebellows.org)
2 points by wwilson 6y ago|0 comments
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After Climate Despair(thenewatlantis.com)
2 points by wwilson 7y ago|0 comments
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Google patents application: Batch normalization layers(patents.google.com)
63 points by wwilson 7y ago|32 comments
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by wwilson 7y ago
Antithesis | DC / Northern Virginia | Onsite | Software Engineers | FULL-TIME | $100k-$150k + equity Antithesis is using deterministic simulation, fuzzing, and AI to improve software testing. The founders are two FoundationDB veterans;
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Rebase CouchDB on Top of FoundationDB(mail-archives.apache.org)
5 points by wwilson 8y ago|0 comments
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by wwilson 8y ago
Wow, from the post: "Together, the Record Layer and FoundationDB form the backbone of Apple's CloudKit. We wrote a paper describing how we built the Record Layer to run at massive scale and how CloudKit uses it." I think this
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by wwilson 8y ago
This is very cool! FoundationDB excites a lot of people because it's an extremely scalable and extremely reliable distributed database that supports ACID transactions, and which is both open-source and has Apple standing behind it. And
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by wwilson 8y ago
There is no correctness limitation on using FoundationDB in multiple datacenters, and if you do most of your writes in a single datacenter while using the others for disaster recovery, the latency is honestly pretty good too (especially w
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FoundationDB Document Layer(foundationdb.org)
297 points by wwilson 8y ago|35 comments
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Sperm Count Zero(gq.com)
7 points by wwilson 8y ago|2 comments
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by wwilson 8y ago
Ah, sorry, that’s a good question. The good news is that FDB has a fairly opaque platform abstraction, and deterministic simulation tests for everything above it, so the vast majority of continuous testing in terms of CPU cycles can be run
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by wwilson 8y ago
The only license you need to accept to use this software is Apache 2, so I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that there’s an Apple hardware restriction.
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FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in(foundationdb.org)
137 points by wwilson 8y ago|49 comments
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by wwilson 8y ago
The only thing that's different in a distributed cluster is the implementations of steps 1 and 6. As voidmain said, the details of that are not trivial, ESPECIALLY the details of how it never produces wrong answers during fault conditi
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by wwilson 8y ago
It doesn't look like Apple open-sourced the Document Layer, which is a slight bummer. But I echo what Dave said below: what we got is incredible, let's not get greedy! Also TBH now that I don't have commercial reasons to push
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by wwilson 8y ago
A subset of the processes in a FoundationDB cluster have the job of maintaining coordination state (via disk Paxos). In any partition situation, if one of the partitions contains a majority of the coordinators then it will stay live, while
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by wwilson 8y ago
I think my favorite part of the build process was when we frobnicated libstdc++: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/Makefile#L... And then there were the hijinks we went through to build a
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by wwilson 8y ago
As an existence proof: before the acquisition we built an ANSI SQL database and a wire-compatible clone of the MongoDB API. I see no reason you wouldn't be able to implement Datastore. In fact here's a public source claiming that

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