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A fun read! My brother actually lives on Lord Howe Island along with his wife and 2 daughters. I’m visiting them in a few weeks too actually. I will share this tidbit with them hah…

About 2 years ago I was intrigued by distributed systems, particularly distributed consensus algorithms. Going down the rabbit hole of replicated logs, I decided to build my own Ka…

Love it! Also, I think it'd be more impressive to be consistent with your units when comparing page sizes e.g: 4mb 1mb 4mb 3mb 0.005mb

Yes and we’re talking about distributed state machines, right? A raft append-only log usually contains state machine commands.

Considering we’re talking about distributed state-machines, I am curious why you would choose Paxos, a more complex algorithm over Raft. Raft, to my knowledge provides the same gua…

Curious, why Paxos over Raft?

These kinds of posts are the reason I come to HN hoping to find. Amazing work! I'm going to come back and read some chapters over the weekend.

Has the help menu and all hahaha

Thanks so much!

Hey HN. I need some help! I am tech lead for a small team consisting of 3 engineers. We've been bootstrapping everything for the past 2 years but the business is showing promising …

Absolutely aware of dilution and all - it's more a matter of principle. I've worked my ass off and surely should have some entitlement to the company of helped build. I was origina…

I do have some upper-hand in that they simply cannot afford to replace me - they'd need to employ 2-3 new people plus all overheads of getting them up-to-speed with our process, ad…

Ok cool, this is roughly what I had in mind. Yes, first employee.

Just the 2 founders, no investors.

Hey HN, I Have been working my butt off for a startup for approx 1 year and I have just recently brought up the discussion regarding my equity in the company. There were no formali…