al_james

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by al_james 5mo ago
This is very interesting! I agree about the operational complexity of many systems, cough Kubernetes. For most systems, state storage is the toughest problem, have you considered adding some form of storage layer over the top or would you r
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by al_james 11mo ago
Cant even login via the AWS access portal.
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by al_james 2y ago
Goodfit.io | https://www.goodfit.io/ | Senior Software Engineer (Typescript) | REMOTE UK - Occasional onsite (<once a month) | Full-Time We work with some of the hottest and highest grown B2B companies in the market, to
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by al_james 3y ago
Caim (www.caim.org) | Python Engineer, Front End Engineer, and Engineering Lead | 100% Remote | Volunteer/Unpaid | Part-time We’re a 501c3 charity whose mission is to help the US become a no-kill nation. Our platform empowers animal re
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by al_james 3y ago
Caim (www.caim.org) | Python Engineers and Engineering Lead | 100% Remote | Volunteer/Unpaid | Flexible Part-time We’re a 501c3 charity whose mission is to help the US become a no-kill nation. Our platform empowers animal rescues to co
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by al_james 4y ago
Goodfit.io | https://www.goodfit.io/ | Senior Software Engineer (Typescript) | REMOTE (UK + EU CET) | Full-Time We work with some of the hottest and highest grown B2B companies in the market, to help them understand their
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by al_james 4y ago
A friend set up https://textareaplease.com/ which I keep coming back to. Useful to have ability to eval JavaScript on the text too.
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by al_james 4y ago
The mixed column and row store HTAP approach is very similar to how single store works ( https://www.singlestore.com/ ) which offers a mysql compatible interface with a few small differences.
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by al_james 5y ago
Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Remote UK (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best investors in the world - enabling brands and creators to sell
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by al_james 5y ago
Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Remote UK (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best investors in the world - enabling brands and creators to sell
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by al_james 5y ago
Yes confirmed its because netlify's origin servers use Google Load Balancers. According to this blog they claim "We can easily move the entire brains of our service between Google, Amazon, and Rackspace in around 10 minutes with n
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by al_james 5y ago
Netlify is also failing for us, and reporting bad TLS certs. Not sure if they use GCP https://www.netlifystatus.com/
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by al_james 5y ago
Looks powerful. You mention the CRDT is a WAL, won't it grow indefinitely?
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by al_james 5y ago
Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Remote UK (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best investors in the world - enabling brands and creators to sell
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by al_james 6y ago
Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Office or Remote (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best investors in the world - enabling brands and creators t
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by al_james 6y ago
Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Onsite or Partly-Remote (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best investors in the world - enabling brands and cre
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by al_james 6y ago
Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Onsite or Remote (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best investors in the world - enabling brands and creators t
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by al_james 7y ago
A lot of companies in London are waiting for the 100 cases in London mark to trigger the WFH fallback. This will be breached tomorrow so expect London tech companies to be totally remote by end of week.
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by al_james 7y ago
Ometria.com | London UK AND Southampton UK | FULL-TIME ONSITE | Several roles: Backend Python, Frontend Javascript, DevOps Ometria’s mission is to help retailers create marketing experiences their customers will love. We understand the chal
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by al_james 8y ago
So the big question is... Can we point this at aws and get Google to manage our aws kubernetes Installs... Given the massive shambles eks turned out to be, that would be great.
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by al_james 8y ago
Ometria.com | London UK | FULL-TIME ONSITE | Several roles: Backend Python, Frontend Javascript, Data science, QA, VP engineering Ometria's mission is to help retailers communicate with their customers in a more personalised way. We ha
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by al_james 8y ago
Thats very very interesting. Many thanks for sharing. So its still a serialize/deserialize cycle, but the access libs built on top of the persistent memory look interesting.
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by al_james 8y ago
What I can't work out from both the article and the comments here: from an application point of view, do I use this like I use memory, or do I use it like I use a disk? No matter how fast a disk is, using it means either some expensive
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by al_james 8y ago
Yup. We run Postgres on i3 instances on their native SSDs and its way faster for OLAP use cases. Check out avien.io for a hosted RDS style solution that does this.
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by al_james 8y ago
Ometria.com | London UK | FULL-TIME ONSITE | Several roles: Backend Python, Frontend Javascript, Data science, QA, Machine learning Ometria's mission is to help retailers create marketing experiences their customers will love. We under
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by al_james 8y ago
Yeah, thats a good point. Redshift does not have the same level of 'probabilistic counting' functions, that can be used from rollups. Redshift does have HLL (SELECT APPROXIMATE COUNT(*)) however that can only be applied when scann
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by al_james 8y ago
Thanks Ozgun. Thats a great video in 3.
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by al_james 8y ago
A great article, and I am a big fan of algolia, Citus and Redshift. However this article ends up making an odd apples to oranges comparison. They state that "However, achieving sub-second aggregation performances on very large datasets
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by al_james 8y ago
Ometria.com | London UK | FULL-TIME ONSITE | Several roles: Backend Python, Frontend Javascript, QA, Machine learning Ometria's mission is to help retailers create marketing experiences their customers will love. We understand the chal
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by al_james 9y ago
We use pg_repack and hit that exact problem (left over triggers etc). In the end we resorted to creating and dropping the pg_repack extension after each run. (edit: Missed an "and")

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