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by bzillins 6mo ago
Flighty was recommended to me by a flight attendant and I also have been notified hours ahead of the airlines by it.
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by bzillins 6y ago
NetApp StorageGRID uses Cassandra according to their docs. "Three copies of object metadata are automatically maintained at each site to provide redundancy and protect object metadata from loss. The copies are load balanced across all
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by bzillins 6y ago
This was required reading for an engineering management course and is one of the few texts that I find myself thinking back on many years later. I strongly second this recommendation.
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by bzillins 7y ago
The NYC blizzard of 1888 had a large impact on the city's decision to build subways which started construction in 1900. https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Blizzard_of_1888;_the_Imp...
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Come over for Dinner(craigkerstiens.com)
4 points by bzillins 7y ago|0 comments
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Databricks Open Sources Delta Lake(github.com)
1 points by bzillins 7y ago|0 comments
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by bzillins 7y ago
The title seems like a reference to the 2003 Outkast song Hey Ya! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw Alright alright alright!
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Optimizing for Workloads: Linux Spinlocks vs. Mutexes(nathanpetersen.com)
2 points by bzillins 7y ago|0 comments
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Best way to count distinct indexed things in PostgreSQL(peterbe.com)
4 points by bzillins 7y ago|0 comments
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How to evaluate your next database(citusdata.com)
3 points by bzillins 8y ago|0 comments
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by bzillins 8y ago
I completely agree that breakfast at conferences has been a fantastic opportunity to meet fellow attendees. Conversation is quite easy to strike up by asking which talks the table is planning to attend.
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by bzillins 8y ago
The newer winterfell nodes [1] have made their way to ebay at sub 100$ and do not have the exotic power requirements of the earlier dual sled windmill nodes. You can easily power them off of a converted server power supply via diy [2] or co
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by bzillins 8y ago
I have been very happy with my Folgertech Prusa https://folgertech.com
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by bzillins 8y ago
In a follow up blog post https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p... Cloudflare released the following image https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2018/03/Old-sys
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by bzillins 8y ago
Published in 2016
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Scylla I/O Scheduler – Maximum Useful Disk Concurrency(scylladb.com)
2 points by bzillins 8y ago|0 comments
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by bzillins 8y ago
Using a tool like diskplorer (mentioned in article 1) to gather the concurrency and IOPS relations at various read sizes (mentioned in article 2) seems like it a good datapoint for use in tuning a database filesystem. https://git
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Bigquery tables can now be partitioned by ingestion time(cloud.google.com)
1 points by bzillins 9y ago|0 comments
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Moving a large and old codebase to Python3(medium.com)
3 points by bzillins 9y ago|0 comments
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Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback(jvns.ca)
3 points by bzillins 9y ago|0 comments
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by bzillins 9y ago
As long as you turn a PG table into a BQ dataset with enough partitions (BQ tables) such that queries do not touch a disproportionate amount of unnecessary data, you utilize date partitioning, and you can deal with a minimum 1.5 second quer
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by bzillins 9y ago
If the rebalancer leverages an update from PostgreSQL 10 does that mean new Citus formations are now PG10 based?
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by bzillins 9y ago
Looking through the public Grafana dashboards I noticed that the database backups page is not showing any data points ( http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/backups ). Is this meant to a public page?