jbs40

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   by jbs40 8y ago

   But any of those are infinitely better than naming something after a letter of the alphabet. That would be a crazy idea, wouldn't it? (Sorry to all the users of 'R' and 'C' and 'S' and ...) :(
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   by jbs40 8y ago

   There seems to be a fundamental technical misunderstanding of these systems in the blog post. Unless you're running in the (generally quite dangerous) scenario where replication factor = 1, both EventBus and Kafka have a network hop (K
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   by jbs40 8y ago

   I wonder if this would have built on Apache Pulsar ( https://pulsar.apache.org ) if it had been in open source and on the Segment team's radar at the time they started on Centrifuge. I work with one of the architects of Puls
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   by jbs40 8y ago

   I was thinking more specifically of the internal architectures of data processing platforms, especially the categorizations that emerged from the MPP database world. The "shared nothing" architecture has been dominant in databases
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   by jbs40 8y ago

   The architectural pendulum is starting to swing away from co-location of storage and compute (the trend of the last 10+ years) to decoupling of storage and processing to avoid exactly these issues, but legacy architectures hang on for a whi
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   by jbs40 9y ago

   Forgot to state the disclaimer that I work for Snowflake.
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   by jbs40 9y ago

   Here's some useful updates and additional information on some of the items mentioned above regarding Snowflake: - The concurrency limits mentioned above are soft limits that can be raised on customer request (those defaults are there s