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> Waymo is now completing 450,000 weekly driverless rides across six cities, with a peer-reviewed study showing statistically significantly lower crash rates than human drivers acr…

Congrats datastax folks. Happy for you.

Youre not far off, just use your original sentence and acknowledge that Scylla isn’t the OSS here, its the company that came in, forked a volunteer driven project, and tried to pre…

> Copycat is a bit of a stretch here imho, considering it's in different language, and even the general architecture. But I agree they are very compatible on the protocol level, wh…

> I would say it's opposite. No one contributes to open source and the developers have to make money on the side to work on the project You missed the important part of his sentenc…

Remarkable to me that ctrl-f, "Sourceforge" had 3 hits on this page. Would have expected a dozen.

Some companies have both massive files and a massive number of files

> I do wish they just contributed to nickel or something else though rather than doing their NIH as usual. They’re contributing to a ton of OSS that’s NIH: https://opensource.apple…

Yes! Congrats Phil!

Regrettably the folks who have been using it for years aren’t going to be give a lot of specifics, but generation of k8s yaml / jsonnet in particular was exceptionally common. One …

Congrats Apple folks who worked on this, I know it’s been a long time coming

Cassandra’s jepsen is over 10 years old now. That database spent 3-4 years primarily focused on correctness from 2018-2022. The industry moves fast, our memories are slow. But ther…

It’s disappointing to me that the technologist desire to experiment with new DBs continually puts naive customers at correctness and durability risk they don’t (won’t) understand.

> Apple's underlying economics haven't changed, so they have not had any reason to over-hire in the first place. The bloomberg article has a visual showing revenue-per-employee goi…

Tell me you’ve never run infrastructure at scale without telling me you’ve never run infrastructure at scale.

Just wanted to say thanks for understanding how hard this is. It's a fun sub-thread to read. As I mentioned elsewhere, I'll see if I can get permission to talk publicly about the a…

I'll see if we can get permission to discuss this publicly.

Cassandra is very good when all of these are true: - You're willing to give up some common SQL-isms for leaderless, multi-dc, high-availability - You're going to grow to need more …