akbar501

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by akbar501 3y ago
Was about to say the exact same thing. Housing constraints are not limited to "near Nvidia HQ". It's the entire Bay Area. For those not from the area, it's city after city after city in the Bay Area. 60 miles up the peni
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by akbar501 6y ago
TL;DR Give Blitz a try. I've been developing my app with Blitz. It has been an extremely productive framework to work with. The following are a few of the productivity boosts that I like: 1. It includes authentication plus there's
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by akbar501 6y ago
One request I would have for SUS is to add the ability to add a weekly update in the past. More than once I was working late Sunday and well into Monday morning. When this happens I can no longer provide an update for the prior week so it l
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by akbar501 8y ago
Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE | Sr. Software Engineer and Principal Engineer positions open Tenable is a rapidly growing network security company. We’re expanding our engineering team to keep up with our rapid customer and
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by akbar501 8y ago
Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE Software Engineer, Principal Engineer Tenable is a rapidly growing network security company. We’re expanding our engineering team to keep up with our rapid customer and revenue growth. Tenable
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by akbar501 8y ago
Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager We're hiring at all skill levels. Tenable is a rapidly growing network security company. We’re expanding
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by akbar501 8y ago
Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager We're hiring at all skill levels. Tenable is a rapidly growing network security company. We’re expanding
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by akbar501 9y ago
Amazon is a huge threat for any infrastructure company using Apache 2.0. If you gain popularity, then Amazon will be a direct competitor once they host your project. Given that Amazon's services benefit from the IE effect, it's no
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by akbar501 9y ago
It's comparable to LevelDB and RocksDB. However, Badger is not comparable to Cassandra, ScyllaDB or DynamoDB as they are distributed database management systems. Cassandra, for example, has it's own storage engine that's resp
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by akbar501 9y ago
Redis is a database management system (DBMS). Badger is a storage engine. An application developer would not choose Badger, but instead would pick a DBMS such as Redis. A database engineer would use Badger to develop a DBMS that the applica
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by akbar501 9y ago
The terminology can be a bit confusing. Database Management System is what people often call a database. Unfortunately, the storage engine is also called a database. Badger, RocksDB, LMDB, etc. are storage engines. A process uses these stor
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by akbar501 10y ago
In my experience, your points about communication and onsite visits are key. Also, communication should be centralized and managed on both sides so there is not only a communication channel, but also clear lines of responsibility. Of course
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Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data engineering?
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by akbar501 10y ago
Steve Forbes wrote about the lack of planning and impact on ordinary citizens: http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2016/12/22/what-indi...
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by akbar501 10y ago
There is simply no factual basis for this comment. Every American Muslim I have met believes in the 1st Amendment. Perhaps more than many Americans, American Muslims are acutely aware of how our laws keep them safe. Reducing these laws woul
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by akbar501 10y ago
In case anyone who is not a Java dev wonders, "what is a fat jar"? A fat jar is a single runnable binary. It makes deploying Java super simple and is roughly equivalent to Go's single binary.
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by akbar501 10y ago
AWS becomes interesting when you want to automate your infrastructure (i.e. infrastructure as software). When you're not orchestrating your infrastructure, then its probably overkill. DO, as you rightly mentioned, is a lot closer to a
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by akbar501 10y ago
Compose.io is owned by IBM. I had a chance to meet both the Compose team and a few people from IBM at the DataLayer conference. They are passionate and smart. Compose is in a sweet spot right now. They run with the speed of a startup, but h
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by akbar501 10y ago
It's the full Redis API and protocol. See https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite/blob/dev/notes/redis.md for a list of all supported Redis features. The benefit of Dynomite's support for the
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by akbar501 10y ago
Yes, I was a speaker at DataLayer. There are two answers to your first question. 1. Dynomite pairs well with Cassandra. At scale, Cassandra is not a speed deamon when it comes to reads. Dynomite helps to improve Cassandra's read perfor
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by akbar501 10y ago
https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite Dynomite for production proven, limitless scale for Redis. Provides ability to Redis for both in-memory and on-disk workloads. Dynamo-inspired linearly scalable, shared nothing multi
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by akbar501 10y ago
The monopsony, which is infrequent in today's markets, is what caused these types of cities/towns. Specifically, a labor market monopsony.
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by akbar501 10y ago
What is the scale out process with Prometheus? Is sharding/replication a manual setup process or is it automated? What's involved in scaling out?
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by akbar501 10y ago
Interesting product. However, our problem is usually the inverse. We have a name + company + LinkedIn, but want the email address.
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by akbar501 10y ago
There is a lot of discussion going on currently around OSS business models. The general consensus is that support contracts / professional services / support do not monetize well enough to grow a large business. Hosted services is
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by akbar501 10y ago
Flip this around. Would you be okay with a presidential candidate saying that a white judge was unable to do his job b/c of his color? What if a ban of additional white immigrants was being proposed? Would you be okay with a female can
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by akbar501 10y ago
A wall all along the US/Mexico border is a fantasy. It's the grown up equivalent of promising to put soda in the drinking fountains when running for class president.
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by akbar501 10y ago
For anyone interested the Go client library is: https://github.com/ory-am/fosite
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by akbar501 10y ago
If the media loves writing articles about Trump, they could at least put a modicum of thought into topics. There are so many easy topics. Far from Trump taking over the GOP, the GOP has taken over Trump and now literally dictates his policy
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by akbar501 10y ago
Serious question. Is immigration subsidized? If so, how?

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