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by stlava 4mo ago
My colleague worked on Lumina which solves a related problem of tracking compute cost with discounts and spot pricing: https://github.com/Nextdoor/lumina
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by stlava 4mo ago
Those who hire a crisis management team rarely win in the court of public opinion. BAM just continues to dig a hole when they could instead facilitate fixing the situation regardless of if they think they are a party to this or not.
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by stlava 9mo ago
At the end of the day there has to be a tradeoff between ease of use and performance. Having spent a lot of time optimizing high throughput services in go, it always felt like I was fighting the language. And that's because I was... su
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by stlava 10mo ago
The movie seems like a fluff piece when you find out what has transpired at DeepMind subsequently with slowing down publishing material to “selling out to product” which the founder was hell bent against in the documentary.
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by stlava 11mo ago
I had some experience with RTK and sensor fusion about 13 years ago on a college project. At the time the only people that were using RTK in real world applications were tractor companies because it kind of matters that you're precise
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by stlava 1y ago
My worry is we're going to have a generation of engineers that have not built up the necessary critical thinking/pattern matching skills needed to weigh tradeoffs and bring in context to ask the right questions and interpret the a
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by stlava 1y ago
I’m impressed they managed to make an app that makes me not want to use it or my phone to take photos! After I used it for about 5 mins I resolved to dust off my older DSLR and use it instead.
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by stlava 1y ago
I feel that if you need an LLM to help pivot between existing data it just means the operability tool has gaps in user functionality. This is by far my biggest gripe with DataDog today. All the data is there but going from database query to
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by stlava 1y ago
We've discussed getting backup power periodically since moving (most of our neighbors have something). After the big bomb cyclone that hit the NPW this became a priority and I did a very similar tradeoff matrix. Here were some of my co
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Scaling Nextdoor's Datastores(engblog.nextdoor.com)
5 points by stlava 1y ago|0 comments
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by stlava 2y ago
> In the year 2030, no one will remember Kubernetes. I highly doubt that. Maybe there will be an evolution to k8s but fundamentally it solves a whole host of challenges around defining the environment an application runs in.
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by stlava 2y ago
Nice! I'm one of the authors of pg-bifrost which is in the same space. Have you thought about / have solved sharding consumption across multiple slots / multi consumers to increase throughput? This is on my radar but not some
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by stlava 3y ago
Sounds like the author is missing an interface to abstract the DB backend.
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by stlava 3y ago
My team manages a handful of clusters at work and I wrote on an internal redis client proxy (it's on my todo list to opensource). A few things I tell other teams to set them up for success (we use Elasticache): - Connection pooling &#x
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by stlava 4y ago
Right, so basically taxi cabs but personalized ads. GG on marginally progressing the wheel.
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Dollar Shave Club offline since Oct 21st(twitter.com)
3 points by stlava 4y ago|0 comments
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by stlava 4y ago
I wrote and operate a high throughput go service with somewhat tight memory requirements. It became impracticable to try tuning the memory footprint to avoid OOMs while balancing gc pauses with just the GOGC flag. I'm happy to say that
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by stlava 5y ago
If data storage isn't your startup's job then I would negotiate heavily on the AWS contract.
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by stlava 6y ago
I doubt the city will see a penny from this. There's nothing in place to do an audit to figure out who should be taxed.
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by stlava 7y ago
That didn't take long...
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by stlava 7y ago
Is the problem that leetcode questions were used or that coding was a hard requirement for a devops position? I do screeners for my team and being able to write code is a hard requirement for us. If you can't reason through and write t
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by stlava 8y ago
There was an NPR clip a month or so ago that likened homeowners to a cartel.
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by stlava 8y ago
The post is good but just scratches the surface on running Kinesis Streams / Lambda at scale. Here are a few additional things I found while running Kinesis as a data ingestion pipeline: - Only write logs out that matter. Searching log
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by stlava 8y ago
I just listened to it last night. It was an eye opening episode. You could see how easy it is for desperate people to fall victim to the brokers.
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Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL(engblog.nextdoor.com)
52 points by stlava 9y ago|21 comments
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by stlava 10y ago
I run a fairly high scale pipeline on lambda. The post touched briefly on logging but wanted to chime in with a few helpful points: - Format all logs in json. This allows you to use the json path filtering option on CW. - Add function versi