willyk

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by willyk 8y ago
Big thanks and props to the team on this, very exciting! Looking forward to pitching in on the guides or other areas where some contrib help may be needed.
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by willyk 9y ago
If you looking into OTP, you'll see there's quite a but more and to some extent it does things differently than K8 (e.g., Observer, fault tolerance, concurrency and vertical/horizontal scaling w/message passing, etc.). S
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by willyk 9y ago
The two options you mention are the ones I see used most often (with React & Vue being 3rd/4th), but I wouldn't say any of those are "frontend equivalents".
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by willyk 9y ago
Agreed, also just want to say thanks, this is awesome news. Much appreciated!
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by willyk 9y ago
Out of curiosity sake, Do you mind sharing what UK company you're with?
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by willyk 9y ago
whohoo! thanks for all your hard work on this!
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by willyk 10y ago
I'm also interested to hear what the future, if any, looks like for RethinkDB. Would also be very curious to explore what can be done regarding the IP/licensing as part of that future (agree with the concerns mentioned here).
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by willyk 10y ago
Thanks to Salve for writing an incredible retrospective. One thing I'd be curious to hear is whether the RethinkDB team feels they could have create the tool and potentially the company without taking on venture capital/investors
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by willyk 10y ago
that was my understanding as well, although there has occasionally been stuff written that suggested more too.
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by willyk 10y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful post. What do you see as the next best alternative approach to OT?
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by willyk 10y ago
These companies are: http://bleacherreport.com/ https://www.brightcove.com/en/ http://cargosense.com/ https://www.inverse.com/ Apple has listed it in the stack in some
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by willyk 10y ago
I wish there was a way I could upvote this a lot more than once
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by willyk 10y ago
Amen to that!!
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by willyk 10y ago
Agreed that it's a framework, but it's not necessarily that much work, it really depends on what you're trying to do. Sometimes its easier just to use a library if it offers what you needs, other times its easier to use D3 di
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by willyk 10y ago
seems odd to suggest Colony is the new hotness, when there isn't a product available yet -- looks like Sep is the target date ( https://blog.colony.io/an-update-on-colony-july-2016-7e2004e... )
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by willyk 10y ago
> And I'm kinda avoiding that on a quad core CPU your > C program is really going to only use one core out > of the box while elixir will use all four.) I think that's a pretty major factor to avoid -- multicore processor
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by willyk 10y ago
RethinkDB is targeted at soft real time applications which have a need to update data across many clients. Additionally, although its a schemaless document DB, it offers functionality similar to joins/relational queries. This is a good
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by willyk 10y ago
same here!!
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by willyk 10y ago
totally agree, lots of activity/interest in NYC
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by willyk 10y ago
For anyone who's interested, we have some relevant community-run, regional conferences coming up in NYC next month: - Erlang Camp (Sat Jul 16), http://erlang.camp/ - Elixir Camp (Jul 15-17), http://elixircam
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by willyk 11y ago
agreed it's great to see this sort of path, and that the tech has been open sourced
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by willyk 11y ago
flashm - Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback. Sorry if we lost you then, but hopefully we won't if there's a 'next time'. We've created an issue on the Phoenix Guides repo about this ( https:/&#
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by willyk 11y ago
Given your skillset, I'd pick React over Scala or Docker. If you're into PHP/Wordpress, you could also look at Drupal 8, which was just released. Given your CSS/JSS/Angular skills, you could also look at Meteor for
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by willyk 11y ago
For those interested in this topic, I suggest reading 'Venture Deals' by Brad Feld. While it's broader than this topic, it does cover some of the legal/technical elements of vc funding and exits, which help when trying t
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by willyk 11y ago
If you're interested in more discussion on this, Robin Chase, founder of ZipCar, often comments on the actual/total cost of operating a car
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by willyk 11y ago
agreed, it's a super documentary
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by willyk 11y ago
Agreed, this made my day. IMO only downside is that we don't have more of this sort of innovation happening at a smaller scale (akin to PG's recent tweet about the maturity of self driving cars relative to early versions of Googl
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by willyk 11y ago
Looking to the broadband wonderland in South Korea of Japan w/Gig service for $25 provides some insight into the sevices/uses of that sort of broadband -- based on my experience it fundamentally changes your computing practices.
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by willyk 11y ago
FYI, based on my past experience, for avg urban customer the total acquisition cost for a cable ISP on DOCSIS 2/3.0 was about $750 -- small delta vs your new build cost.
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by willyk 11y ago
Thanks for sharing the Vice article, it was great ... good to see some of these projects succeeding now that the capex has come down (a decade or so ago there was a long list of similar ventures that failed).

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