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What specific example or point from the blog post do you disagree with?

I wish Swift wasn’t so tied to the Apple ecosystem, as it has (IMO) a good mix of these

This is not the title of the article, kinda biases the reader to the outcome of the debate don’t you think?

You may be interested in https://www.gqlstandards.org/ and https://www.iso.org/standard/79473.html TL;DR the ISO standards committees behind SQL are working on bring graph query la…

Man I was frustrated by this article. Despite it being on a subject matter I normally ignore, it lured me in with the promise to “dig into data publicly in a way that (so far) I ha…

As a data point, this change will mean a lot of work for us (we built cluster discovery on top of Akka Cluster at Neo4j). I'm not thrilled, but I respect their right to make these …

Yes they do

If you're interested in building distributed systems, then I thoroughly recommend Marc Brooker's blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/

It does though, the primary thesis of the article is that the question (whether or not software engineering is engineering) is important because if software engineering is the real…

This is daft. CockroachDB exhibits extremely strong isolation and consistency levels. I believe it is strictly serializable under most circumstances? Also - anyone who says that x …

Another thing which makes the Raft/Paxos vs new-consensus-algorithm comparisons complicated is caching. If your raft state machines are doing IO via some write through cache (which…

Enterprise licenses for on premise Neo4j are certainly for a specific customers with specific needs, but there is always the DBaaS ( https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura/ ). Or if you abso…

Competition is good, and from my experience with both Nomad feels like a more complete product than kubernetes

I couldn't agree more about curiosity mode (I'm going to use that phrase liberally). Despite reading papers for many years, I rarely go in cold. I browse blog posts and twitter, as…

I have many recommendations of different kinds: ## Blogs: - http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/ - https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/ - https://decentralizedthoughts.github.io/ - https:/…

I believe it would have alleviated some of the issues yes. In general I’m excited for the benefits “pauseless” GC can bring to soft real-time systems on the JVM. Unfortunately, for…

We're a big Java/Scala shop already, so Akka was easier to integrate :)

To offer a slightly dissenting opinion, we’ve had many issues with Akka over the years: - if you roll your cluster membership a lot the dotted version vectors which are created by …

I never know where I sit on stuff like this. On the one hand if you’re confluent I think it makes total sense to own this part of your infrastructure. Especially if it lets you imp…

I've said this before on other threads but frankly, scientific publishers represent institutionalised theft of tax payer money: - Academics (most often publicly funded via grants a…