panyam

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by panyam 3y ago
Oh yeah. I started with Rus's (amazingly demystifying) blog posts and then got a bit carried away and ended up atleast covering a good chunk of the js regex test suite. The wonders of not having to work on someone else's sched
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by panyam 3y ago
I actually had a lot of fun doing this in typescript (though a much simpler not as prod ready version of it) - https://github.com/panyam/tlex
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by panyam 3y ago
Hmm i thought it was still there. Problem is discoverability and the insane high bar on "sexy ui"? I maintain a personal blog (ive been waiting for ages to put it out thanks to fear of ridicule but time to break free of the sham
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by panyam 3y ago
So my point was around all things a managed for gives you (eg sharding and replication). Even by the time I had to setup streaming replication and have to worry about wal drifts it is easier to pay a managed provider no?
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by panyam 3y ago
Actually not quite. Backups (assuming you are doing single node) still needs you to decide on your SLOs - RTO (how long it takes to restore) and RPO (how much data lose you can suffer) numbers. On the instant snazy end you have streaming
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by panyam 3y ago
Yep I've actually started channel my inner Larry David these days even shaming the boss for not paying their employees enough. I even volunteer to teach them coding so they can get a better job (ok I am sure that's not a thing in
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by panyam 3y ago
Ah nice! In fact a neat little trick most people don't realize is system designs interviews are effectively queue designs!
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by panyam 3y ago
The idea that execs did not see this coming is well - ok may be I am too old think this was not planned.