gshx

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by gshx 10y ago
Thanks for the bullets. This is a good list but some of the points like "Easily scalable" and "DB support" are not cheaply available in any runtime and require careful attention to detail as well as domain-specific think
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by gshx 10y ago
This looks very good. At the moment, for the jvm, there are not a lot of features above simply building services using netty and the protobufdecoder/encoder. Similarly, http2 goodness is also already available in netty.
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by gshx 10y ago
This translates exceptionally well to fields other than basketball, as well. I wish this "magically gifted engineer just needing to work 3hrs a day making e'thing look so easy" profile goes away.
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by gshx 10y ago
One big challenge is the expense that is otherwise avoided via usage of connection pooling. Without the hack to keep the backing containers alive, tearing down and restarting them is expensive and wipes out all hot path optimizations made b
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by gshx 10y ago
Reminded me of all the hours spent debugging with dbx. Turns out, even after all the yrs, they are still quite similar.
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by gshx 10y ago
Does anyone have real prod scale numbers - even order of magnitude concurrency would be helpful. We're obviously very wary of trying out new and young data stores.
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by gshx 10y ago
Your point is well-taken. This qn comes up often enough for similar use cases and hence I asked if someone has data to support an arg. Considering the criticality of Zk in the larger stack and our success and operational expertise with it,
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by gshx 10y ago
Does someone have any benchmarks or comparisons with Zk? We have run it for many yrs without a problem and are very happy with it. Would be interested in hearing from anyone who switched from zk->etcd for distributed locking, presence, l
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by gshx 10y ago
Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.
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by gshx 10y ago
Go-lang is good but not as mature. Other than that, there's C++ and Erlang/Elixir. Not a whole lot of mature choices out there. For most of the critical production grade systems that need to be secure, have to scale and perform pr
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by gshx 10y ago
Would also be interested to hear more about the "deployment nightmares with Zookeeper". For us, it has to be one of the most stable pieces of 3rd party server software we run.
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by gshx 10y ago
Very nice, now that we have some good competition in this space - kafka, ddl and wormhole. If only Fb can open src wormhole, there will be some good related systems software to choose from and contribute to.
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by gshx 10y ago
You're right. I was mostly commenting on the common idiomatic ways ppl differentiate streams vs queues. Indeed, it can be used in both scenarios.
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by gshx 10y ago
It can be used as a queue but the bigger benefit is for streaming use cases. One of the key differences, among others, is that streaming assumes somewhat faster consumers as opposed to queueing. There's also the pub-sub use-case which
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by gshx 10y ago
I have had good results with Yourkit. And so far in my experience, that is the only profiler that has been able to survive profiling busy services running large heaps. ymmv.
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by gshx 10y ago
Can you cite some examples? Did these companies decide to run containers on vm's or just bare metal? In the latter case, they shouldn't need 3 to 4 times more hardware. Your point on capacity planning is well taken. Capacity will
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by gshx 11y ago
There are other concerns to keep in mind, eg. the upgradability of storage to use next gen cards that use 3d nand, etc. I'm sure they thought through a list of concerns before going this route.
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by gshx 11y ago
Not at all, cost/TB of S3 is much higher compared to what you can build provided you know how to build it yourself.
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by gshx 11y ago
The other problem with Lambda is that you cannot keep persistent connections in a connection pool. It is after all, designed for statelessness. This can be considerable cost for doing calls to other business services (http connection pools)
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by gshx 11y ago
Content and programming are still quite limited. There are a few good original shows. Also, they keep adding a lot of movies with poor ratings (rotten tomatoes). There's definitely potential for some disruption in this space. Also, som
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by gshx 11y ago
Agree with your comment wholeheartedly. My comment was mostly around business information flow to the market since that's regulated due to various reasons.
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by gshx 11y ago
For one, this: "makes it easy for all employees to.." work with business insights data is usually inaccessible to everyone for a reason.
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by gshx 11y ago
A lot of the agents typically don't point out any of those things anyway. They're incentivized to make the deal and really paid by the Seller. If both the Buyer and Seller were paying, that might be an altogether different story a
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by gshx 11y ago
If Zillow can solve the "problem" of putting all the docs (disclosures, inspections, offer docs, title docs later on, etc) up with the listing along with making a network of handymen (to help out with prettifying a house for sale)
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by gshx 11y ago
Running multi-region services has associated costs. It's also non-trivial engineering effort to convert most services to a multi-region setup. It's definitely worth the investment though. Another option is to run multi-region on t
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by gshx 11y ago
Seems like too much fluff - both the acquirer generating it and the acquisition itself. It would be helpful to see why/where one would use node.js when other platforms support many more workloads well than just pure I/O bound ones
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by gshx 11y ago
Amzn seem to have it: http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Da...
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by gshx 11y ago
HBase also did well. They need to blog about it. There was a related jira ticket I read through: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9719 Also, an old blog entry from yammer engg. blog: http://o
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by gshx 11y ago
Agree, it should be easier. After registering, think it's possible to sign-in to most of the adsk systems via either the email/passwd or adsk-id/passwd combination.
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by gshx 11y ago
Might want to start here: http://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/stingray

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