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jorangreef

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About jorangreef

Founder & CEO of TigerBeetle, the financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle

joran@tigerbeetle.com

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    TB was designed to track stock inventories (as another form of double-entry accounting).

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    Comment #48145178

    > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the three largest Zig project I did correct you where you are wrong (“appeal to popularity” as a logical fallacy). > I can't help and wonder where yo…

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    Comment #48141323

    [Since your comment is a duplicate from another thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135476 , I’m duplicating my reply to you there] > I wonder if Tigerbeetle will also h…

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    Comment #48141181

    > I wonder if Tigerbeetle will also have problems arguing for their solution now that the other project they can point to for customer assurance is gone. In general, we never like …

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    Comment #47799749

    Ah appreciate it! And I always hold gamedev in the highest regard—where it’s at!

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    Comment #47799561

    The author of SlateDB, Chris Riccomini, is an angel investor in TigerBeetle. However, TB here is also providing a Replicated State Machine with consensus and strict serializability…

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    Comment #47736644

    Ah I appreciate your kind words, Aditya! This was a team effort: the object storage connector, the scale test, the visualization, the slides, even provisioning the hardware had its…

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    Comment #46429427

    And I suppose we did minimize the preprocessor somewhat with comptime… :D

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    Comment #46172832

    Thank you Andrew, you always have our full support.

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    Comment #46077195

    The author graciously gifted the domain to us and we’re literally days away from launching original TigerStyle here.

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    Comment #45911090

    Yes, thanks! I don’t think we reviewed your Go benchmarking code at the time—and that there were no technical critiques probably should not have been taken as explicit sign off. II…

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    Comment #45897921

    You would use TigerBeetle for everything: not only the final purchase transaction, but the shopping cart process, inventory management and queuing/reserving. In other words, to cou…

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    Comment #45897265

    Appreciate your kind words, Kelsey! I searched the recent history of our community Slack but it seems it may have been an older conversation. We typically do code review work only …

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    Comment #45896350

    If only. But you also need to fix the internal concurrency control of the DBMS storage engine. TB here is very different to PG. For example, if you have 8K transactions through 2 a…

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    Comment #45890905

    Thanks Kelsey! We’d love to roll up our sleeves and help you get it right. Please drop me an email.

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    Comment #45890851

    Of course, there’s nothing new except shining a spotlight (and coining the rule!).