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by bgentry 2mo ago
There's an active incident tracking this: https://status.claude.com/incidents/g613ntyj2pwf
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by bgentry 6mo ago
Thanks for sharing your report, it's frustrating to see things like this break in minor patch updates. Small tip for GitHub Gist: set the file format to markdown (give it a .md extension) so that the markdown will be rendered and won&#
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by bgentry 7mo ago
The important quote from the timeline: Mar 01 9:41 AM PST We want to provide some additional information on the power issue in a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec
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by bgentry 7mo ago
Here is something that gets lost in all the excitement about AI productivity: most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code. I think there's a big split between those who derive meaning and enjoyment from th
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by bgentry 7mo ago
The actual decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf
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by bgentry 7mo ago
Absolutely agree and likewise buddy :)
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by bgentry 7mo ago
Oh hey Curt!! Remember, you are not a monitoring system :)
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by bgentry 7mo ago
Yep, that team did great work. I remember having lunch at the Heroku office with the dotCloud team in 2011 or 2012 and also Solomon Hykes demoing Docker to us in our office’s basement before it launched. So much cool stuff was happening bac
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by bgentry 7mo ago
As somebody whose first day working at Heroku was the day this acquisition closed, I think it’s mostly a misconception to blame Salesforce for Heroku’s stagnation and eventual irrelevance. Salesforce gave Heroku a ton of funding to build ou
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by bgentry 7mo ago
You'll need to unlock your iPhone first. Even though you're staring at the screen and just asked me to do something, and you saw the unlocked icon at the top of your screen before/while triggering me, please continue staring
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by bgentry 8mo ago
No, I don't think so. Oban does not rely on a large volume of NOTIFY in order to process a large volume of jobs. The insert notifications are simply a latency optimization for lower volume environments, and for inserts can be fully dis
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by bgentry 8mo ago
This is largely because LISTEN/NOTIFY has an implementation which uses a global lock. At high volume this obviously breaks down: https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-s... None of that means O
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by bgentry 8mo ago
Yeah, River generally recommends this pattern as well (River co-author here :) To get the benefits of transactional enqueueing you generally need to commit the jobs transactionally with other database changes. https://riverqueue.
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by bgentry 1y ago
I get the temptation to attribute the popularity of these systems to lazy police with nothing better to do, but from personal experience there’s more to it. I live in a medium sized residential development about 15 minutes outside Austin. A
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by bgentry 1y ago
Aaron did RT the post here which likely indicates some agreement with the sentiment in it: https://x.com/searls/status/1972293469193351558 Also he shared it directly while saying it was good here: https:/&#x
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Dependabot and private Go proxies: how they work and why it matters(riverqueue.com)
1 points by bgentry 1y ago|0 comments
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by bgentry 1y ago
Take my money! I have been looking for a good way to get Claude to stop telling me I'm right in every damn reply. There must be people who actually enjoy this "personality" but I'm sure not one of them.
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by bgentry 1y ago
As one of River's creators, I'm aware of many companies using it, including names you've heard of :) One cool open source project I've seen recently is this open source pager / on-call system from Target called GoAl
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SQLite for River, durable periodic jobs and dbsql for Pro, better performance(riverqueue.com)
2 points by bgentry 1y ago|2 comments
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by bgentry 1y ago
Modern Postgres in particular can take you really far with this mindset. There are tons of use cases where you can use it for pretty much everything, including as a fairly high throughput transactional job queue, and may not outgrow that se
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by bgentry 1y ago
Definitely not! Jobs in River are enqueued and fetched by worker clients transactionally, but the jobs themselves execute outside a transaction. I’m guessing you’re aware of the risks of holding open long transactions in Postgres, and we de
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by bgentry 1y ago
You can get pretty high job throughput while maintaining transactional integrity, but maybe not with Ruby and ActiveRecord :) https://riverqueue.com/docs/benchmarks That River example has a MacBook Air doing about 2x t
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by bgentry 1y ago
Ah, so that issue is specifically related to a statistics/count query used by the UI and not by River itself. I think it's something we'll build a more efficient solution for in the future because counting large quantities of
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by bgentry 1y ago
Developer of River here ( https://riverqueue.com ). I'm curious if you ran into actual performance limitations based on specific testing and use cases, or if it's more of a hypothetical concern. Modern Postgres running
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by bgentry 1y ago
Hah, I agree, "easier" is too soft :)
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by bgentry 1y ago
You could make that argument for lots of services that have external side effects, but that’s about what happens after the service has been asked to do a thing (to send an email in this case). However just because an action may be duplica
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by bgentry 2y ago
It is literally false in this case, yes. The corporation has no control over WaPo, even though the same individual has some control over both.
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by bgentry 2y ago
Apparently there are a lot of people confused about this, but no, Amazon does not have ownership over the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos bought it with his own personal funds using an LLC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef
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by bgentry 2y ago
> This is what we get allowing mega-corporations control our media. What mega corporation is the Washington Post part of?
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by bgentry 2y ago
The backlight bleed of LCDs would look pretty awful at night. Also I’m not sure how others feel about it but to me a DIY LED matrix is way cooler than dropping in a prebuilt screen with HDMI input.

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