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by biggestdummy 1y ago
It looks a bit more complicated, in that the announcement mentions the open sourcing of some proprietary tech. So it looks like there was some IP bought, along with the hires. But it does look to be a 90% "company hires maintainer of c
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by biggestdummy 1y ago
Not OPA-based , but Kyverno-based. Kyverno is also CNCF, basically an overlap of OPA functionality (with some give and take.) Nirmata provides commercial/enterprise options around Kyverno.
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by biggestdummy 1y ago
The shop (Styra) did get closed. A few of the most senior maintainers were hired by Apple. Many - including anyone not directly involved in engineering of the OSS product - are now looking for jobs. Capitalism is ruthless.
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by biggestdummy 1y ago
From the post, I'm pretty sure Apple didn't buy Styra. Sounds like Apple hired the maintainers who worked at Styra (including Tim, Teemu and Torin). I'm guessing that Styra is just shutting down.
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by biggestdummy 2y ago
Carnivores tend to sleep longer than omnivores, who tend to sleep longer than herbivores. For a hunting carnivore, energy comes in big bursts, so it makes sense that they would be active for a short period of time, and hoard energy when the
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by biggestdummy 2y ago
In 2018, Unilever announced that they would soon stop using plastics in their teabags. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/pg-tips-... They've since reformulated the bags - can'
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by biggestdummy 2y ago
They do, in fact, have humans who check to make sure that everyone starts behind the starting line. And both humans and computers which check to make sure that nobody starts early. Two notes on "starts early." One - start is any
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by biggestdummy 2y ago
I am an author. While 99% of "ordinary people" are not authors, 99% of authors are "ordinary people". Under your moral logic, everyone should just be free to pirate/steal any creative work, as why shouldn't the
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by biggestdummy 2y ago
Hi PeterCorless! (We're friends IRL - it's Greg) While we're putting in plugs for open source alternatives, I'll recommend looking at StarRocks. https://www.starrocks.io/ I share Peter's sentiment f
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
First, your work day is almost completely sedentary. Second, you are not near friends, gyms, fields, or other systems which promote healthy activity outside of work. While diet is important for all of us, it is especially important in this
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
There's also this pretty detailed article on StarRocks' query optimizer. (StarRocks is open source - focused on OLAP) https://medium.com/starrocks-engineering/starrocks-inside-sc...
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
Atlassian, famously, got to very significant revenue before hiring Sales. But even they, eventually, got to a size and complexity where Sales was required. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/th
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
I've written four books. Each book is the result of thousands of hours of experience and hundreds of hours of work. My books are all over these sites, and have been used to train AI. Without my consent. I didn't write books to mak
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
I'm curious who these "companies selling exactly this service" are. I get solicited by dozens of companies daily. And I've seen nobody who can provide this de-annonymization of website visitors.
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
From first-hand experience, B2B sellers do not get this information today. They typically get "signals" like "Company X is searching for product category Y" or "Company X is visiting your web site". And "C
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
It's a prank. Meant to be funny. Best when signing up for something which might be construed as embarrassing. I've also done this where I've donated $25 to U of California in the name of my friend who went to Stanford (rival
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
TIL that books3 includes the text of three of my books. Which I spent thousands of hours (and thousands of dollars) researching and writing. And which were now stolen for other's profits. I don't care about your personal financial
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
Every DB company - from giants like Oracle and MS to newcomers like Scylla and Cockroach - is pushing Cloud Service as their primary revenue model. At least for the growth of their business. It's shocking to see them shut down the Clou
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
Not "that anonymous user." In my experience, avoiding Join statements is a common best practice for Clickhouse users seeking performant queries on large datasets. A couple examples... https://medium.com/datadenys&
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
There's a difference between "supports the syntax for joins" and "does joins efficiently enough that they are useful." My experience with Clickhouse is that its joins are not performant enough to be useful. So the b
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by biggestdummy 3y ago
StarRocks handles latency and concurrency as well as Clickhouse but also does joins. Less denormalization, and you can use the same platform for traditional BI/ad-hoc queries.
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by biggestdummy 4y ago
An ad for what?
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by biggestdummy 5y ago
With the caveat that I know nothing about mailgun, so may have misunderstood parts of the conversation, it sounds, to me, like the salesman did a few very helpful things... 1. Pointed out that the user had been spending money on a servic
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by biggestdummy 5y ago
Price should be based on value to the user - not cost to you. So ask yourself this question - if you have 2 customers, each with 25,000 profiles. Customer 1 has average monthly sends of 1,000. Customer 2 has average monthly sends of 10,000.
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Overpay as You Go for Your Datastore(medium.com)
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by biggestdummy 5y ago
So an open exchange of ideas, and some free assistance. Sounds like it was a good outcome for you. :)
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by biggestdummy 5y ago
Scylla, for one. Which is mentioned as a possible "next step" in the article.
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by biggestdummy 5y ago
Glommio was created by Glauber Costa, one of the early contributors to Seastar (and Scylla). The resemblance between the two is not coincidence. https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/c-vs-rust-an-async-thr...
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by biggestdummy 5y ago
Full report is posted here with no registration wall: https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/21/cockroachdb-vs-scylla-be... And they admit that it's an odd comparison. "Obviously, the comparison is of the
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by biggestdummy 5y ago
Agreed that it sucks when a few bad actors create the need for general restrictions. But that's certainly the case for why we have airport security. Or, in fact any security - anywhere. I look forward to living in your world where eith

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