revertts

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by revertts 3y ago
I think you’re understating how many quic implementations exist. Google, Apple, F5, Facebook, Fastly, Cloudflare, Microsoft, AWS all have separate implementations servicing significant production traffic, most of them open source. That does
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by revertts 4y ago
Failures while communicating to the external systems (the kv store and elastic in your example) are usually where this falls down. It's easy to build a system that's consistent ~90% of the time, but if you want to build a system w
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by revertts 4y ago
It's very hard for Kafka Connect plugins to maintain consistency in all scenarios - both because of the semantics of some upstream databases, and because of the guarantees the connect API itself offers. Hopefully KIP-618 will eliminate
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by revertts 5y ago
IRC is excellent, and located around the Bay Area (there are usually at least a few people carpooling down from Oakland) - https://www.insightretreatcenter.org It's the retreat side of IMC ( https://www.insightmed
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by revertts 5y ago
Were the amazon purchases all from the same amazon account?
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by revertts 6y ago
Term coined by Jay Kreps, see https://www.oreilly.com/radar/questioning-the-lambda-archite...
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by revertts 6y ago
That link's a 3min clip for non-subscribers, but the full talk is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2EXg0Fy98
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by revertts 6y ago
Previously msvc's position was to not support newer C standards and instead focus on C++. This was stated publicly at least as far back as 2011 https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an
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C11 Support Added to MSVC's Roadmap(developercommunity.visualstudio.com)
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by revertts 6y ago
Allen Webster, the creator, was recently interviewed on the Handmade podcast. I thought it was a good discussion - touched on text editors, performance, and some interesting programming language ideas. https://handmade.network&#x
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by revertts 6y ago
Many of the current users, including the creator, are in gamedev. Being extensible in a language they’re already intimately familiar with is a selling point.
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by revertts 6y ago
This is done by some apps today, though the motivation was typically network perf (http2 and then QUIC support). The stacks are large - on iOS it's difficult to take over a portion of networking without rebuilding a substantial amount
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by revertts 6y ago
I read their point as “information hiding is not a concept exclusive to OO.” Whether or not the original quote meant to imply that I’m not sure, but do see how it could be read that way.
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by revertts 6y ago
I think the small upside (a single 5-star rating contributes very little to app ranking) is outweighed by the potential downsides (it can be a turnoff if the user sees that because it strikes of astroturfing, which seems a hot topic these d
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by revertts 6y ago
It looks like there's a single 5-star review by "Benedict B." Did you review your own app?
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by revertts 6y ago
Ah! I'm sorry, I had misinterpreted your original comment.
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by revertts 6y ago
I agree, HashMap is unnecessarily hamstrung because the API requirements push it into a bucket chained implementation (C++ also made this mistake and is one of the downsides of std::unordered_map). And you can definitely write a faster impl
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by revertts 6y ago
There are cases where you need them, but it's relatively rare, they definitely shouldn't be your first choice. I'm fuzzy on all the current Linux use cases, but do remember one of the main users of rb trees was CFS. It's
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by revertts 6y ago
What's the best way to keep an eye out for that TR? Periodically checking http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/ ? I can't ever tell if I'm looking in the right place. :)
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by revertts 6y ago
> Put everything in a bowl Care to share your measurements? I’m aiming for something similar, but having trouble getting my ratios dialed in.
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by revertts 7y ago
How strange - OpenDNS/Cisco Umbrella seems to flag the domain and gives me a 403 Forbidden.
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by revertts 7y ago
It's a net win for the ISP due to cost savings from not having to haul that traffic across their network/to the Internet. You're right that powering racks isn't free either though: if the cache operator doesn't util
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by revertts 7y ago
That's correct - 'revokation' in this case would likely involve rolling the DNS name to something different. Since these racks tend to have precise targeting (ie. not dns gslb) and non-user facing names, there's more fle
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by revertts 7y ago
RE: NSDI - Is the Firecracker paper available somewhere, or not yet? Edit: I'm an idiot - https://www.amazon.science/publications/firecracker-lightwei...
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by revertts 7y ago
Yup! Some of the names on that draft were people who have previously worked on building these sorts of edge racks, so their experience with this infra helped shape the proposal. It'll be great once it's broadly supported, but that
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by revertts 7y ago
The problem isn't with terminating SSL, it's with keeping your keys safe on exposed infrastructure. A single domain name and DNS to route is uncommon because it doesn't give you fine-grained control of load - you need to be m
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by revertts 7y ago
It's a very good question! Figuring out security for these remote racks is one of the hardest parts. For some CDNs their larger POPs will be locked cages with security cameras and all, but these small deployments are significantly more
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by revertts 7y ago
Yes, but the peering/traffic teams are the ones that generally manage these embedded cache deployments, hence why related info are on the same pages as peering details or in PeeringDB. All the ones I linked do actually have edge cache
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by revertts 7y ago
Completely right, it would've been more correct to say "saves money" and not specifically call out transit.
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by revertts 7y ago
Qwilt and similar products are really neat, but I don't think they've entirely panned out. The idea to do transparent caching at the network edge was hurt by the move to TLS everywhere, and there's a lot less cost incentive w

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