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Yes, I think VCs have already switched to using other metrics that are less easy to fake, such as download per month or customer interviews (or more direct, ARR, even for really ea…

When a partner decides to recommend a startup to the investment committee, he needs some explicit reasons to convince the committee, not some kind of implicit vibe

Many VCs are only doing one thing: how to use some magical quantitative metrics to assess whether a project is reliable without knowing the know-how. Numbers are always better than…

I previously worked at Bytedance and we've maintained a Rust zero-copy gRPC/Thrift implementation for 4 years: https://github.com/cloudwego/volo , it is based on Bytes crate (refer…

CGI/PHP treated database connections as something that's always available. That pushes a lot of hidden complexity onto the database platform: it has to be reachable from anywhere, …

Yes it's Apache 2, thanks for pointing this out, I'll be fixing this.

It's currently 3MB, and we've done almost nothing to reduce the file size, so we can expect it to get even smaller.

Owner of Tonbo here. This critique makes sense in a classic web-app model. What's shifting is workloads. More and more compute runs in short-lived sandboxes: WASM runtimes (browser…

Yes We'll provide a report to explain how we tradeoff these things, please stay tuned.

Request the source? I researched and calculated the cumulative percentage of global carbon emissions from major economies since the industrial revolution: - United States: 24% - Ch…

Sure I'd love to, could you share your practice or what you are doing on top of Parquet?

typed-arrow avoids any kinds of runtime side effects: cost, errors, etc.

Hi community, we just released https://github.com/tonbo-io/typed-arrow . When working with arrow-rs, we noticed that schemas are declared at runtime. This often leads to runtime er…

Tonbo IO | Product Engineer | Remote | https://tonbo.io/careers/product-engineer Tonbo IO | Product Engineer | Remote | https://tonbo.io/careers/database-engineer We are a startup …