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The culture around cryptocurrencies can be a little insular – so we're sharing our onboarding guide that teaches you to buy cryptocurrencies step-by-step. I think it's broadly appl…

I've used this in the past, in high performance math. If you have data (vectors, matrices, etc.) that doesn't fit neatly into a SIMD block size, you'll have to zero out fields afte…

Congrats to the compose folks! IIRC, they acquired Cloudant a little while ago.

We store our event stream data in Elasticsearch. Two features that made it appealing: * the ingest-side can be scaled up by adding more shards * the query-side can be scaled up by …

The closest to a hosted solution I've come across is Azure's DataLake announced at the recent Build conference: https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/29/introducing-azur... We'r…

Really cool write up – thanks! First time I’m hearing about CitusDB. They appear to be building a columnar, distributed database while preserving the Postgres frontend (similar to …

Going on a tangent here: this benchmark highlights the difficulty of sorting in general. Sorts are necessary for computing percentiles (such as the median.) In practical applicatio…

I learnt this the hard way. Initially, I designed the API with bigints for ids and found some older versions of PHP didn't support bigints. I had to switch to using strings.

Good feedback. Still iterating on the messaging – at this stage, we are still figuring out how to describe the product. When you begin incorporating ES into your application, rough…

My biggest difficulty with the documentation is the lack of examples and a logical layout. That's why at our company (we do hosted ES), we decided to invest in a new documentation …

Say I'm trying to sell water. Features: Liquid at room temperature. One oxygen atom, two hydrogen atoms. Has high specific heat capacity. Benefits: Helps with the balance of bodily…

I have a couple of side-projects as well as a startup. The last few years, I’ve switched my side-projects to helping people with their backend infrastructure or architecture. This …

There're many examples on GitHub, here's one I found just by searching: https://github.com/tbarbugli/django_longpolling

Two ways you can do this: 1. Long polling: It’s definitely possible to have thousands of long-lived requests with something like gunicorn/tornado. Remember to turn-off buffering in…

Really impressed with the pace of innovation in the last few months: cat api, aggregations, snapshots. The unfortunate side effect is that books and stack overflow posts written be…