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It’s a 28 year old project.

Some of the same people bounced around implementing it in different places, but they started from scratch each time. Some things to search for: JP Morgan Athena BofA Quartz Kirat S…

Full respect to this piece for including the phrase “the simplest possible thing”.

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From @patio11 a week ago: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/delve-into-co...

The subject does sometimes come up in my casual conversations, since Robin Milner was my first CS lecturer. He never actually spoke about type inference in my presence. He did teac…

Why? Bad management. Perhaps even bad leadership.

Amazing achievement. I did some work for Apricot at their Glenrothes factory around 1985-87. In my memory they went heavier on GEM than Windows. I never saw an Apricot running Wind…

Matt Godbolt was saying recently that using tail-calls for an interpreter suits the branch predictor inside the cpu. Compared to a single big switch / computed jump.

Watch at https://youtu.be/-L8OFMTteOo

The famous OSS database patterned after DynamoDB is https://cassandra.apache.org/ (Wondering if you never heard of it or if you don’t consider it commensurate).

FX trading has been completely online for about 20 years.

> Mimir in version 3.0 needs Apache Kafka to work. I’d like to adjust this understanding. Kafka is the big new thing, but it’s optional. The previous way using gRPC still works. I …

The tool that connects into your container and updates the files was called "Tilt".

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567241

This is art.

Worth noting that the major clouds will sell this as 24 "vcpus".

Span has a beginning and an end time. Event typically just has a time when it happened.

That is nice. But no detail after gen 5, so mostly historical interest.

You’re right, it’s not guaranteed. Also the hypervisor might lie to you - claiming a single NUMA node but actually crossing two on the VM host.

Whilst you’re right in broad strokes, I would observe that “the garbage-collector” is one of those tight loops. Single-threaded JavaScript is perhaps one of the best defences again…

Very detailed and accurate description. The author clearly knows way more than I do, but I would venture a few notes: 1. In the cloud, it can be difficult to know the NUMA characte…

The Commodore machine contemporaneous with the Apple II was the PET. Apple I - July 1976 Commodore PET - January 1977 Apple II - June 1977 C64 - January 1982 (Dates from Wikipedia)…

Do note your last example makes a biased, or poorly random, selection.

But it’s also true on the output side. Kubectl doesn’t output yaml unless you ask it to. The APIs only support json and protobuf, not yaml.