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A lot of what you're saying depends greatly on the exact game you're talking about and what winning and losing means, for instance if the game has discrete places instead of a bimo…

Thanks for the link, I hadn't read this one yet. Very interesting. I feel like as an industry we're still in the stone ages on how we do skill matching systems. A lot of the curren…

I've written game matchmaking before for games and found it far more challenging to do the portions related to matchmaking groups by skill. If you're hyper latency sensitive then p…

Definitely an interesting question. Some things that may explain why -- Mongo was always AGPL and relicensed to SSPL. This had the following consequences: * Very few companies and …

I've run Postgres at large scale (dozens of machines) at multiple companies. I've also run MongoDB at large scale at multiple companies. I like both generally. I don't really care …

You can also build whatever you want with SSPL, as long as absolutely everything you use to run a service that supports it is also licensed as SSPL. It's not that different from th…

By which metrics are you evaluating those companies' license changes? Both are significantly more profitable than before they changed licenses, MongoDB especially. I'm not sure the…

I'm not sure what experience you have, but I've run both their Enterprise licensed database on prem as well as migrated to Atlas and there have never been any licensing issues prev…

This article seems to have inspired others to look at MongoDB again, so I'll give my thoughts after using it recently. MongoDB Atlas is a surprisingly good managed database product…

SSPL has no provision even close to the reach of the "anti-competition" clause Hashicorp is using. While SSPL is not considered open source, it isn't that far off from the AGPL. Th…

Source for which claim? Kyle was paid for work testing 3.4.0-rc3[1] and 3.6.4[2] which analyzed single document concurrency in a sharded configuration. Those tests run in their CI …

Not your main point, but MongoDB didn't commission Kyle to do that report as they had in the past, he did it on his own time. That's why his report doesn't mention repeat testing. …

Where is the root of trust for package signatures? Who is verifying signatures: the package index or end-users? How do you distribute public keys? PGP is mostly maligned because of…

If you use Musl 1.2.4+ (or Alpine 3.18+), there are no longer the same DNS fallback issues: https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2023/05/02/1 To summarize the issue: DNS is done opt…

You can read about why projections still very much matter for large scale (which is what I think you meant; small scale would be something that shows you whole countries and not us…

This article doesn't touch on the actual reasons why Mercator is still in widespread use: * It was the first widespread projection because of its practical use for nautical navigat…

The author should investigate their networking setup. I can run their Go fetchall example in no more than 70ms. Their benchmarks are surely dominated by noise.

Sorry, I should have been more precise. encoding/gob is not optimized for situations where you create an encoder or decoder, read/write a single value, then discard that encoder/de…

Your note about encoding/gob being inefficient is somewhat accurate for how you're using it, but I want to talk a bit about how you could improve your use. encoding/gob is intended…

Go has probably the most extensive stdlib of major languages outside of Python (happy to be corrected on that). You can get a sense for what is available by looking here: https://p…

It's fine to dislike Go's philosophy on error handling, but in order to save you and your co-workers a lot of headache down the road, I'd recommend you just use another language. T…

I had a look through some of your comments here and elsewhere and just wanted to give you some friendly feedback: This style of commenting is quite toxic. I think you'll feel happi…