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FYI the mooncake team was acquired by Databricks so it's basically vendors trying to compete on features now :)

1 - I think if we were sticking with the JVM, I do wonder if Lucene would be the right choice in that case 2 - It's a great tool with a lot of tuneability and support! 3 - We've be…

These are great projects, we use DuckDB to inspect our data lake and for quick munging. We will have some more blog posts in the future describing different parts of the system in …

It's a bit difficult at the moment, given we have a lot of proprietary data at the moment and a lot of the logic follows it. I'm hoping we can get it to a state where it can be ind…

Author here! We were really motivated to turn a "distributed system" problem into a "monolithic system" from an operations perspective and felt this was achievable with current har…

Companies like Netflix with bigger market caps are still on AWS. I can imagine the productivity of spinning up elastic cloud resources vs fixed data center resourcing being more im…

Those are people who would probably steal software, anyways, so for most businesses I think worrying about those folks would be a waste of time

A bit of an aside, I'm a big fan of how Mike Perham managed to start a business around Sidekiq. I think it really gives us Hacker News folks that there's hope starting a viable boo…

Perhaps if the fee was more expensive for a single person, but economical for >2 people then the math works out.

To be fair, there are a number of job openings where you can "Apply with LinkedIn", so it's structured data end-to-end.

One area which an external monitor (or high resolution) helps a lot with is UI or frontend programming. It's a huge pain to play with the chrome or Firefox debugger and have to jum…

Testing in production will trend upwards among companies because everybody's workload is shifting towards the cloud and/or making use of external SaaS services. There are a number …

I wonder if the ageing population combined with weakening currency are big factors here.

This is an even more effective strategy given the Japanese culture of constantly rebuilding housing [1]. It does beg the question of how sustainable that practice itself weighed ag…

This is a great release! Now we have a way to share code between our CI and Terraform (we use CDKTF). Imagine this scenario: 1. You onboard new developers and their on-boarding tas…

I hope my comment didn't come off as an attack and certainly admire what you've accomplished! So long as the medium of techno allows you to embed your own creative characteristics,…

For fans of Dilla's music (you may not know the producer, but I'm sure you'll know some of his songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla_discography ), I'd highly recommend the b…

I also wonder if writing music was chore-like due to the genre the author chose, specifically four-on-the-floor techno music that has largely fixed and repetitive structures? This …

I wonder if the 10% is purposely vague so that they can use a random 10 percent of content to A/B test platform engagement (maybe plan upgrades) and ad engagement.