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ahuang

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    Comment #22760860

    (I work at Quill). We've found threading to work really well with teams as small as 3. (2, probably not.) In professional contexts, conversations tend to be about specific topics -…

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    Comment #22760719

    (I work at Quill.) Quill definitely has some similarities to a forum/message board in that it's slightly more structured -- but it's very much chat at it's core. What we've found i…

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    Comment #22760520

    > Your regular conversations are absolutely yours -- your messages by default are encrypted in transit and at rest. (I work at Quill too). Yes, absolutely! That is just table stake…

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    Comment #22514985

    I think the main issue is it seems really one-sided and the intent was to be snarky, vs educational. I posted a comment here detailing some ways to work around some of the pitfalls…

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    Comment #22514959

    I think this conflates a poor implementation of a webserver with python/gunicorn/gevent being bad. There are a few (easy) things to do to avoid some of the pitfalls she encountered…

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    Comment #20424186

    Not always ;). As someone with experience managing mongo at scale, this really speaks volumes to the amount of effort needed to make it not do the wrong thing. And even then, there…

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    Comment #20025179

    gRPC isn't a requirement for response streaming (as is quoted as one of the main reasons for doing the migration). That can all be achieved with http/json using chunked encoding. I…

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    Comment #11558331

    Generally its the upper 32k ports that are ephemeral, and if your churn more than that per minute in connections, you'll run into that TIME_WAIT issue. Hacky way to get around that…