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itcmcgrath

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About itcmcgrath

All opinions expressed or implied are mine and not the opinions of my employer.

I do database stuff. Cloud@Neo4j. Ex-Google databases (Datastore, Firestore, Bigtable, App Engine Search)

https://twitter.com/daniswrong https://stackoverflow.com/users/153407/dan-mcgrath

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45134557

    German goes into some of the details here: https://neo4j.com/blog/graph-database/property-sharding-infi...

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    Comment #29776066

    * >20 when this was published in 2016.

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    Comment #23855915

    The most important part is at the end: According to Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska, a member of the team, the graph neural network learned to encode a pattern that physicists call cor…

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    Comment #22228187

    My favorite so far: https://captcha.nsa.gov/logos/2019/loteria/rc2/loteria19.htm...

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    Comment #20529376

    It was 2015 when I first encountered this while working with Andrew and James. I couldn't find any online info on the origin, and the few Firebasers I asked couldn't tell me. I fee…

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    Comment #20233677

    Only 89 (it wasn't KFC). But yes; common pattern.

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    Comment #20233509

    I've been around a company that was 180+ years old (so rebranding was non-trivial ;)). They switched to an acronym based on the original name, so there was was 1) a direct link bet…

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    Comment #19464910

    One example would be where you have conditional logic that requires a database call. Without workers, everything would go back to the backend system, perhaps across the ocean. With…

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    Comment #19165916

    Status board is green: https://status.salesforce.com/ But reports of log-in issues are slightly up: https://downdetector.com/status/salesforcecom

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    Comment #19051534

    We listed a sample in the blog post, including The Telegraph, The New York Times, Skip Scooters, Now IMS, and Hawkin Dynamics

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    Comment #19051504

    Thank you for being a paying user. 1. Mainly because it's both a different search problem (general DB vs specific to web search) and hard engineering wise given our model; we imple…

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    Comment #19051444

    If Cloud Spanner is too big, then you'll almost certainly be well served by Cloud SQL (fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL): http://cloud.google.com/sql/

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    Comment #19051356

    We built it specifically for Cloud Firestore and as an integral part of the system from the beginning. We always like to hear where we can do better to help prioritize the next set…

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    Comment #19050465

    If you want a scalable relational database, that's Cloud Spanner.

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    Comment #19048960

    We aren't, but we know customers to create GraphQL access layers themselves.

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    Comment #19048947

    Thanks for the feedback. Feel free to send any feedback on missing examples/tutorials that would have made things easier to our discussion group ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#…

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    Comment #19048136

    Thanks! It's something we're discussing, but won't be "soon".

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    Comment #19048102

    Our discussion group has a lot of the team, including me, on it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-cloud-firesto...

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    Comment #19048092

    We're looking at more comprehensive backup solutions, but in the meantime we have a fully managed export system you can schedule ( https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/manage-da…

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    Comment #19048060

    I'll talk to our Developer Relations team in Colorado to follow up!

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    Comment #19048048

    Hi EZ-E - completely understand the concern. Cloud Firestore's architecture is very different and engineered to be an extremely highly available system backed by a 5 nines SLA. It …

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    Comment #19047638

    It's technically possible for us to build that, but we're focusing on the most common requests at this time. If anyone has that please let your account reps know (they feed us lots…

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    Comment #19047509

    None, still a fully supported option for users.