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This is very interesting! I agree about the operational complexity of many systems, cough Kubernetes. For most systems, state storage is the toughest problem, have you considered a…

Cant even login via the AWS access portal.

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A friend set up https://textareaplease.com/ which I keep coming back to. Useful to have ability to eval JavaScript on the text too.

The mixed column and row store HTAP approach is very similar to how single store works ( https://www.singlestore.com/ ) which offers a mysql compatible interface with a few small d…

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Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Remote UK (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best in…

Yes confirmed its because netlify's origin servers use Google Load Balancers. According to this blog they claim "We can easily move the entire brains of our service between Google,…

Netlify is also failing for us, and reporting bad TLS certs. Not sure if they use GCP https://www.netlifystatus.com/

Looks powerful. You mention the CRDT is a WAL, won't it grow indefinitely?

Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Remote UK (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best in…

Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Office or Remote (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the …

Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Onsite or Partly-Remote (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some …

Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Onsite or Remote (UK only) | Full time Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the …

A lot of companies in London are waiting for the 100 cases in London mark to trigger the WFH fallback. This will be breached tomorrow so expect London tech companies to be totally …

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So the big question is... Can we point this at aws and get Google to manage our aws kubernetes Installs... Given the massive shambles eks turned out to be, that would be great.

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Thats very very interesting. Many thanks for sharing. So its still a serialize/deserialize cycle, but the access libs built on top of the persistent memory look interesting.

What I can't work out from both the article and the comments here: from an application point of view, do I use this like I use memory, or do I use it like I use a disk? No matter h…

Yup. We run Postgres on i3 instances on their native SSDs and its way faster for OLAP use cases. Check out avien.io for a hosted RDS style solution that does this.

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