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by hugofirth 2y ago
What specific example or point from the blog post do you disagree with?
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SQL gets a sibling: ISO publishes GQL, bringing graphs to a database near you(iso.org)
2 points by hugofirth 2y ago|0 comments
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Speed Up Your Queries with Neo4j's New Parallel Runtime(medium.com)
2 points by hugofirth 3y ago|0 comments
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by hugofirth 3y ago
I wish Swift wasn’t so tied to the Apple ecosystem, as it has (IMO) a good mix of these
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by hugofirth 4y ago
This is not the title of the article, kinda biases the reader to the outcome of the debate don’t you think?
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by hugofirth 4y ago
You may be interested in https://www.gqlstandards.org/ and https://www.iso.org/standard/79473.html TL;DR the ISO standards committees behind SQL are working on bring graph query languages and SQL datab
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by hugofirth 4y ago
Man I was frustrated by this article. Despite it being on a subject matter I normally ignore, it lured me in with the promise to “dig into data publicly in a way that (so far) I haven’t seen anyone else do”. I was expecting some novel analy
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by hugofirth 4y ago
As a data point, this change will mean a lot of work for us (we built cluster discovery on top of Akka Cluster at Neo4j). I'm not thrilled, but I respect their right to make these changes, and personally think that BSL with a timed rev
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by hugofirth 5y ago
Yes they do
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by hugofirth 5y ago
If you're interested in building distributed systems, then I thoroughly recommend Marc Brooker's blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
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by hugofirth 5y ago
It does though, the primary thesis of the article is that the question (whether or not software engineering is engineering) is important because if software engineering is the real deal, then we're ignoring useful lessons from all th
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by hugofirth 5y ago
This is daft. CockroachDB exhibits extremely strong isolation and consistency levels. I believe it is strictly serializable under most circumstances? Also - anyone who says that x database must be rewritten “because GC” is just making an in
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by hugofirth 5y ago
Another thing which makes the Raft/Paxos vs new-consensus-algorithm comparisons complicated is caching. If your raft state machines are doing IO via some write through cache (which they often are) then having specific machines do speci
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Scalable but Wasteful, or why fast replication protocols are slow(charap.co)
93 points by hugofirth 5y ago|24 comments
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by hugofirth 5y ago
Enterprise licenses for on premise Neo4j are certainly for a specific customers with specific needs, but there is always the DBaaS ( https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura/ ). Or if you absolutely need on premise and are smal
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Neo4j raises $325M series F(neo4j.com)
154 points by hugofirth 5y ago|133 comments
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by hugofirth 5y ago
Competition is good, and from my experience with both Nomad feels like a more complete product than kubernetes
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by hugofirth 6y ago
I couldn't agree more about curiosity mode (I'm going to use that phrase liberally). Despite reading papers for many years, I rarely go in cold. I browse blog posts and twitter, ask myself a series of questions, then try to find&#
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by hugofirth 6y ago
I have many recommendations of different kinds: ## Blogs: - http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/ - https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/ - https://decentralizedthoughts.github.io/ - https:/&#x
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by hugofirth 6y ago
I believe it would have alleviated some of the issues yes. In general I’m excited for the benefits “pauseless” GC can bring to soft real-time systems on the JVM. Unfortunately, for now we have to continue supporting G1 and friends.
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by hugofirth 6y ago
We're a big Java/Scala shop already, so Akka was easier to integrate :)
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by hugofirth 6y ago
To offer a slightly dissenting opinion, we’ve had many issues with Akka over the years: - if you roll your cluster membership a lot the dotted version vectors which are created by Akka distributed data grow unbounded. Eventually they will
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by hugofirth 6y ago
I never know where I sit on stuff like this. On the one hand if you’re confluent I think it makes total sense to own this part of your infrastructure. Especially if it lets you improve your operability story. On the other hand I feel like p
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by hugofirth 7y ago
I've said this before on other threads but frankly, scientific publishers represent institutionalised theft of tax payer money: - Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free. - They ar
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by hugofirth 7y ago
Frankly, scientific publishers represent institutionalised theft of tax payer money: - Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free. - They are expected to learn to use LaTeX and to typeset
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by hugofirth 7y ago
I don't like Oracle any more than the next person, but this just isn't true at all. Oracle is a robust product which fills an important part of any technical stack. Building and supporting databases is hard.
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by hugofirth 7y ago
Presumably this structure means the company pays the tax to the government, and are, in essence, buying back their own shares :)
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by hugofirth 7y ago
There are plenty of industries where companies don't exist in a particularly free market, and have to operate according to extremely strict regulation. Thats all I meant :)
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by hugofirth 7y ago
This might be stupid - but why are these credit ratings agencies allowed to exist in a comparatively free market? Surely a function like the one they provide is better handled by a Not-For-Profit governmental body? Without this - or incredi
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by hugofirth 7y ago
For a C codebase, Postgres[1] wins for me hands down. It's clean and suuuuuuper well commente, such that with a little context you can dive into something very complex and still get a feel for what is going on. [1]: https://

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