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by jacobscott 10y ago
Also, have you considered using i3 instances for their superior price per throughput/IOP? Obviously, you can't rely on EBS snapshot based backup/restore workflows on those instances, but maybe the performance gain is compelli
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by jacobscott 10y ago
Are Citus Cloud customers generally IOPS constrained rather than throughput constrained? You're also constrained by the EBS-optimized interconnect, right? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide&#x2
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by jacobscott 10y ago
Thanks! I look forward to reading about implementation details. It does seem like documentation of Citus Cloud HA and disaster recovery behavior is a bit light, compared to e.g. - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/
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by jacobscott 10y ago
Does Citus (Cloud?) have features that offer better high availability and failover functionality than what RDS provides? Managed Patroni and packaged workflows for zero-downtime failover would be quite interesting, but I don't see anyt
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by jacobscott 11y ago
Thanks, this makes sense!
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by jacobscott 11y ago
The software has to be distributed somehow, right? Probably over https? What makes curl more susceptible to MITM than apt-get/pip/gem/etc? I don't particularly like curl | sh either, but without sudo, I'm not sure h
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by jacobscott 11y ago
What's the difference between downloading and executing a binary, installing a package (apt-get, pip, gem, etc), and curl | sh which makes the later so bad?
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by jacobscott 11y ago
If the script source is on github and isn't run under sudo, is there a meaningful difference between curl | sh and apt-get install from a PPA, gem/pip install, etc?
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by jacobscott 12y ago
Will General Purpose (SSD) be an option for RDS?
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by jacobscott 12y ago
If we assume stability, in what circumstances would PIOPS or Magnetic volumes be preferable to General Purpose? For example, workloads that use an average of < ~.4 IOP per GB per second, might save money using Magnetic.
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by jacobscott 12y ago
The previous generation had a small instance (m1.small). There is no comparable offering in the current generation (at least, not yet). The smallest m3 instance is the m3.medium. You can still provision an m1.small, though, right? You just
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by jacobscott 12y ago
From Jeff Barr's blog post ( http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ssd-backed-elastic-block... ): * A bucket is associated with each General Purpose (SSD) volume, and can hold up to 5.4 million tokens. * Tokens a
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by jacobscott 12y ago
Previously a 1TB, 4K PIOPS volume was $525/mo. With a 35% discount on PIOPS this now runs $385/mo, but you can also get 1TB, 3K PIOPS General Purpose volume for $100/mo. Pretty nice price drop! Generally, since 1 GB of GP SSD
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New EBS (AWS) volume type: General Purpose (SSD)
14 points by jacobscott 12y ago|7 comments
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by jacobscott 13y ago
I agree with the gist of the post, but there are some ways in which you can tip the scales in your favor: - Get an offer where you get your options up front and the company reserves the right to repurchase them. - Exercise your options imme
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by jacobscott 13y ago
Have you used any other cloud monitoring/metric/etc providers? If so, how do they compare to DataDog?
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by jacobscott 13y ago
Yang's notes are awesome! I considered their strength a positive signal when he recruited me to Infer, a startup which he left MIT ABD to cofound ( https://www.infer.com/about.html ). We're hiring, so if you're
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Software Predicts Which Companies Are an Easy Sell(technologyreview.com)
11 points by jacobscott 13y ago|2 comments
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by jacobscott 17y ago
It seems like there's vague consensus on first engineer equity. Are there any common rule-of-thumbs for Nth engineer (or Nth employee) equity?
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by jacobscott 17y ago
Sadly, no. I almost missed the SHDH that we hosted a few weeks ago.
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by jacobscott 17y ago
Palantir Tech is hiring for just about every position in the company (we're growing fast). The most YC-relevant positions are probably software engineers -- most of what we do is in Java (with a bit of Groovy glue). Most jobs are at our Pal
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Project Horizon: analysis at scale(palantirtech.com)
1 points by jacobscott 17y ago|0 comments
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by jacobscott 17y ago
I work there, in software development. I think I work hard, but certainly not death march hard, or any harder than someone working at another random startup might. Not fourty hours a week, but certainly not eighty, either.
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by jacobscott 17y ago
If you think you can add 1mm to the value of your startup by working 12 hours a day 7 days a week for a year, then your time is "worth" $230/hour. Also, considering what someone with a similar background could earn working full time for an
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by jacobscott 17y ago
also, from the same poster, to the actual source (slate). I flagged this one.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Twitter is still nascent compared to Facebook traffic-wise, and I bet that the vast majority of twitter users are also facebook users. So, if Facebook gives you the same functionality AND user experience, why maintain your twitter account?
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Facebook nearing statewise dominance of Twitter(jhscott.posterous.com)
1 points by jacobscott 18y ago|1 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
So Facebook makes it easier to post public news feed items, and then writes a twitter-like UI on top of that data. There are obviously subtle usability issues here, but technically it seems straightforward...
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I would be more worried about the "it" that is facebook providing a better experience for their core usecases. From what I can tell, given the new Facebook UI, all Facebook needs to do to implement twitter is: * Streamline directed relation
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by jacobscott 18y ago
It seems like I asked the question in the wrong context. Sorry about that. Given that scale is hard, how about monitoring, or management?

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