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Thanks for the bullets. This is a good list but some of the points like "Easily scalable" and "DB support" are not cheaply available in any runtime and require careful attention to…

This looks very good. At the moment, for the jvm, there are not a lot of features above simply building services using netty and the protobufdecoder/encoder. Similarly, http2 goodn…

This translates exceptionally well to fields other than basketball, as well. I wish this "magically gifted engineer just needing to work 3hrs a day making e'thing look so easy" pro…

One big challenge is the expense that is otherwise avoided via usage of connection pooling. Without the hack to keep the backing containers alive, tearing down and restarting them …

Reminded me of all the hours spent debugging with dbx. Turns out, even after all the yrs, they are still quite similar.

Does anyone have real prod scale numbers - even order of magnitude concurrency would be helpful. We're obviously very wary of trying out new and young data stores.

Your point is well-taken. This qn comes up often enough for similar use cases and hence I asked if someone has data to support an arg. Considering the criticality of Zk in the larg…

Does someone have any benchmarks or comparisons with Zk? We have run it for many yrs without a problem and are very happy with it. Would be interested in hearing from anyone who sw…

Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

Go-lang is good but not as mature. Other than that, there's C++ and Erlang/Elixir. Not a whole lot of mature choices out there. For most of the critical production grade systems th…

Would also be interested to hear more about the "deployment nightmares with Zookeeper". For us, it has to be one of the most stable pieces of 3rd party server software we run.

Very nice, now that we have some good competition in this space - kafka, ddl and wormhole. If only Fb can open src wormhole, there will be some good related systems software to cho…

You're right. I was mostly commenting on the common idiomatic ways ppl differentiate streams vs queues. Indeed, it can be used in both scenarios.

It can be used as a queue but the bigger benefit is for streaming use cases. One of the key differences, among others, is that streaming assumes somewhat faster consumers as oppose…

I have had good results with Yourkit. And so far in my experience, that is the only profiler that has been able to survive profiling busy services running large heaps. ymmv.

Can you cite some examples? Did these companies decide to run containers on vm's or just bare metal? In the latter case, they shouldn't need 3 to 4 times more hardware. Your point …

There are other concerns to keep in mind, eg. the upgradability of storage to use next gen cards that use 3d nand, etc. I'm sure they thought through a list of concerns before goin…

Not at all, cost/TB of S3 is much higher compared to what you can build provided you know how to build it yourself.

The other problem with Lambda is that you cannot keep persistent connections in a connection pool. It is after all, designed for statelessness. This can be considerable cost for do…

Content and programming are still quite limited. There are a few good original shows. Also, they keep adding a lot of movies with poor ratings (rotten tomatoes). There's definitely…

Agree with your comment wholeheartedly. My comment was mostly around business information flow to the market since that's regulated due to various reasons.

For one, this: "makes it easy for all employees to.." work with business insights data is usually inaccessible to everyone for a reason.

A lot of the agents typically don't point out any of those things anyway. They're incentivized to make the deal and really paid by the Seller. If both the Buyer and Seller were pay…

If Zillow can solve the "problem" of putting all the docs (disclosures, inspections, offer docs, title docs later on, etc) up with the listing along with making a network of handym…

Running multi-region services has associated costs. It's also non-trivial engineering effort to convert most services to a multi-region setup. It's definitely worth the investment …