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by noahl 1y ago
There are some semantic differences compared to POSIX filesystems. A couple big ones: - You can only append to an object, and each object can only have one writer at the time. This is useful for distributed systems - you could have one
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by noahl 1y ago
Slight nit: "zonal" doesn't necessarily mean "not replicated", it means that the replicas could all be within the same zone. That means they can share more points of failure. (I don't know if there's an of
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by noahl 1y ago
There's now another blog post about Rapid storage specifically: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer... . (That wasn't up yet when the original post was made.)
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by noahl 3y ago
No, not for GCP stuff. I don't know of a single GCP product that's been shut down, although I could be missing something. But their track record for GCP is, I think, what you would want a cloud provider's record to be. (I sho
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by noahl 4y ago
Got it, thank you! CockroachDB is the only one I know offhand that does what you're looking for. Another comment mentioned Vitess, which might also work. It seems like there are a lot of options for large scale analytics, but I don&#x2
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by noahl 4y ago
Spanner offers that on GCP, and I believe CockroachDB offers something similar cross-cloud. Do you have any specific requirements for which cloud provider you use, or any particular interface you really need?
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by noahl 4y ago
The solution is posting this marketplace on a forum full of people who might like to buy and sell side projects
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by noahl 5y ago
I mean to be fair Google has also tried very, very hard to improve home internet access for people, to the point of setting up their own ISP and running municipal fiber networks. That's a pretty big try, and I really wish it had taken
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by noahl 6y ago
Microsoft/windows is hosted on Azure DevOps, and they have also blogged about what they've done to improve its performance! Here's a recent post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/introducing-scalar&#
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Google Cloud Risk Protection Program(cloudblog.withgoogle.com)
1 points by noahl 6y ago|0 comments
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by noahl 6y ago
Interestingly, there was an ancient Greek / Roman equivalent: amphora (pottery vases) with bumps that fit into standard cargo racks in ships. The first picture in the Wikipedia article is what I mean: https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by noahl 6y ago
Someone close to me has Celiac disease, and getting an official diagnosis will let you do more than just eliminate gluten. For one thing, you could participate in one of the multiple ongoing drug trials for Celiac that are looking for parti
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by noahl 6y ago
I'd be curious to know what the libraries are that allow this sort of database engine design. Are there any open source examples?
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by noahl 6y ago
Imagine if Barnes and Noble had done it, and you could drive to one of their stores to quietly sip a drink and peruse the new machines they had provisioned recently.
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by noahl 6y ago
I think Microsoft's strategy (I work there, but I don't have any special knowledge of this) is to be the best possible platform for development in general, not just machine learning. That's why they bought GitHub, and it&#x27
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Can Brian Hall fix what ails Google Cloud?(platformonomics.com)
2 points by noahl 6y ago|0 comments
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by noahl 6y ago
Can you give some examples of the mindset of construction and manufacturing businesses? It would be interesting to me, and I think to other people here too.
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by noahl 6y ago
I have a suspicion, which I have never verified, that the things that make emacs great are basically the things that made Lisp Machines great back when those were a thing - that emacs is best viewed as a Lisp Machine embedded in a modern op
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by noahl 6y ago
It was released, and was used for the Windows repo. Search "vfs for git" - it's open source. Then macOS removed kernel extensions, so they came up with a different approach and released that too. Search "scalar" to
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by noahl 7y ago
I wonder if anyone uses greenhouses as carbon capture for traditional power plants, rather than running their own mini-power plant mostly for the CO2 output.
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by noahl 7y ago
I don't work there any more, but back when I was at Google Cloud we developed our own benchmarking suite, partly to answer questions like this. It's open source, you can run it too: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPl
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by noahl 7y ago
If you adopt this article's three-category system (or any system with a finite number of ordered categories), then I think in the long run the number of positive and negative changes have to converge toward equality. If we hear more st
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by noahl 7y ago
I have worked a job that was salaried, in the sense that I got paid a lump sum for the year and didn't track my hours, but also paid extra when I was on call. This is possible, and it works fine.
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by noahl 7y ago
Making a concept intuitive and easy to understand is extremely difficult to do. A person who could do this would probably have to understand Paxos better than Lamport does. I wouldn't assume that Leslie Lamport doesn't want his
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by noahl 7y ago
The trouble is that if you have to understand or correctly guess internal Google politics like this in order to know which products you can really rely on, then it's effectively not reliable. With that said, I'd feel fine relyin
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by noahl 7y ago
The point is that giving over the names would be bad. What he did is better. Supporting people's right to self-determination despite negative business consequences is admirable, and I wish we saw more of it.
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by noahl 7y ago
That sounds like the current use case for helicopters.
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by noahl 7y ago
Are you suggesting that Google try to poach Satya Nadella? :) I would give a lot to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.
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by noahl 7y ago
Okay, this is a relatively serious proposal to require Google to allow API access to its search index, with the premise that it would democratize the search engine ecosystem. There are some issues with the regulations he proposes (you have
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by noahl 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes it not the right solution? (I work on the Azure DevOps team.)

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