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I'm sorry but this was easily the most pretentious book I've read all year.

Why hasn't their stock plummeted like Google's?

FWIW they mention this at the bottom of their document > Just like BlazingMQ’s other subsystems, its leader election implementation (and general replicated state machinery) is test…

> This section explains the leader election algorithm at a high level. It is by no means exhaustive and deliberately avoids any formal specification or proof. Readers looking for a…

Lots of haters on the part1 segment of this article wondering "wtf does this VP even do?!" > I have friends who are line managers at larger companies who take home more than I do i…

What's min-maxing?

Obligatory: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

These roles likely comprise less than 5% of all engineers at big tech companies so I would be pretty surprised if such a book exists.

nit: Cockroach was founded by a Xoogler but there's no public evidence that they were on the Spanner team at any point.

With idempotence, you shift the problem from "deliver X exactly once" to "make it seem like X was delivered exactly once". In most systems, exactly-once is really "effectively exac…

Exactly Once = At least once + Idempotence

How do you reconcile this with the importance of crosstalk and contention as espoused by the USL? https://wso2.com/blog/research/scalability-modeling-using-un...

OT: Sorry to hear what happened to you at Twitter (:

> It’s also important that the loader generates those requests at a constant rate, best done asynchronously, so that response processing doesn’t get in the way of sending out new r…

Damn dude what did you do? Sell Ads to teens?

Obligatory memcache scaling paper mention: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13...

Can you walk me through how waiting some amount of time actually improves their guarantee? It's not like they're using Google's TrueTime api that provides bounds on time. How is "u…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743182#31743198 :)

From earlier in the article: > Clock skew across different sensors: Sensors might be located across different datacenters, computers, and networks, so their clocks might not be syn…

> In the US and Europe, RSUs are difficult to get wrong because of share withholding I believe the withholding is 22% by default. If you're living in CA and have a large RSU vest, …

TIL Edgar Codd went by Ted.

> both pictures of white male talking to white female. white passing *

I'm not convinced that issues requests from the multiple clients for the same key actually matters. My speculation is that they map a key to their backend via some type of (consist…

What a ridiculous marketing term. This is a RYW (Read your writes) level of consistency which is a far cry from Strong consistency (see https://jepsen.io/consistency ). Seems like …

I just finished reading the Roblox outage postmortem (trending on HN: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/). I learned a lot reading about it …