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by wwilson 8y ago
This is INCREDIBLE news! FoundationDB is the greatest piece of software I’ve ever worked on or used, and an amazing primitive for anybody who’s building distributed systems. The short version is that FDB is a massively scalable and fast tra
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Bay Area mass exodus of residents leading to a shortage of U-Haul trucks(aei.org)
43 points by wwilson 9y ago|6 comments
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by wwilson 9y ago
(Former FoundationDB employee). Where did this dumb meme come from? First of all, FoundationDB was not a service, so there was nothing to "shut down". It's true we stopped selling the product to new customers, and we no longe
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by wwilson 9y ago
Your understanding of what occurred in the acquisition is incorrect. (Source: I am a former FoundationDB employee.) Unfortunately I can’t say much more than that. The VoltDB post is also wrong in many of its particulars, but I’ve gotten int
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by wwilson 9y ago
It's kind of amazing how we have to have this discussion again every time somebody designs a CP system with excellent availability. I'll just come out and say it: the 'A' in CAP is boring. It does not mean what you think
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Neural architecture search with reinforcement learning(blog.acolyer.org)
9 points by wwilson 9y ago|0 comments
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by wwilson 10y ago
Yeah, I've read that post, and I have no idea where it gives the impression that we don't support interactive transactions. What paragraph are you looking at? Could you be referring to the fact that we make you do writes via a mut
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by wwilson 10y ago
(Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Spanner). Cloud Spanner fully supports interactive read-write transactions. I'm not sure what the source of the confusion here is. Maybe Daniel is using a new definition of "client-side interactive tra
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GK Chesterton on AI Risk(slatestarcodex.com)
9 points by wwilson 10y ago|0 comments
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Research Debt(distill.pub)
508 points by wwilson 10y ago|136 comments
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by wwilson 10y ago
You can find our deprecation policy here: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ Disclaimer: I work on GCP, though not on Cloud SQL.
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Google Cloud SQL for Postgres(cloud.google.com)
755 points by wwilson 10y ago|232 comments
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by wwilson 10y ago
> How does Spanner not satisfy that itch? Not ordered matters? I was probably unclear in my previous comment. Spanner is great! (And Spanner is ordered). The particular aspect of FDB that I miss is what some of our old customers called &
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by wwilson 10y ago
Full disclosure: I now work at Google on Cloud Spanner which competes with both products you mentioned. These are just my personal (and probably highly biased) opinions. I have some concerns about CockroachDB on both the performance and the
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by wwilson 10y ago
Yes, this is the argument that VoltDB made as well: https://www.voltdb.com/blog/foundationdbs-lesson-fast-key-va... My feelings on this topic are mixed. On the one hand, I think many of the specific examples chosen in
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by wwilson 10y ago
Another former-FoundationDB guy here (hi Ian!), and I actually think the business case for Apple open sourcing is very strong. I'm a fan of the layered architecture we chose, but building efficient and powerful layers on top of the cor
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Snap Inc: How to read the S-1(medium.com)
2 points by wwilson 10y ago|0 comments
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Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone(wired.com)
5 points by wwilson 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
1068 points by wwilson 10y ago|434 comments
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Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
172 points by wwilson 10y ago|7 comments
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Zero-Shot Translation with Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System(research.googleblog.com)
218 points by wwilson 10y ago|45 comments
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Bounds, Bottlenecks, and Digital Marketing(fortressofdoors.com)
11 points by wwilson 10y ago|0 comments
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Solve San Francisco's housing crisis(medium.com)
1 points by wwilson 10y ago|0 comments
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The “Dark Heart” of San Francisco Housing Crisis(bernalwood.com)
3 points by wwilson 10y ago|1 comments
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The Suicide of Venezuela(joelhirst.wordpress.com)
194 points by wwilson 10y ago|209 comments
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by wwilson 10y ago
That's a great point, I'll try to put something together.
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Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes(slate.com)
491 points by wwilson 10y ago|425 comments
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by wwilson 10y ago
Hi, I'm the author. Just wanted to pop in and say: (1) I originally had the thing stuffed full of citations and links, but since they wanted to print it in the paper magazine, we stripped all those out. If you want a reference for any
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FBI Motion to Vacate(documentcloud.org)
3 points by wwilson 11y ago|0 comments
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Google DeepMind could play StarCraft(businessinsider.com)
15 points by wwilson 11y ago|10 comments

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