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Anywhere Cache shines in front of a multi-regional bucket. Once the data is cached, there's no egress charges and there's much better latency. This is great for someone who looks f…

Anywhere Cache and Rapid Storage share some infrastructure inside of GCS and both are good solutions for improving GCS performance, but Anywhere Cache is an SSD cache in front of t…

There's a detailed blog post about Rapid Storage now available, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645309 (I work on Google storage)

I've played 100s of hours of if under Proton on Linux. Works great.

Many enterprise storage systems have the durability/availability tradeoff like these replicated disks when replicating outside of a single datacenter. (Oracle calls it "max availab…

Regional Persistent Disk was in beta in 2019. Usability hiccups and other annoyances meant it only GA'd in 2023, but it's been used under CloudSQL for quite a while. (I work on GCP…

std::quick_exit() also works, though you can decide if it's worthwhile to allow parts of the program to register functions to be called at quick exit time.

Linked investment account counts. You just need $2500 in a checking account, the rest can be in whatever ETF or stock you'd like.

It is true that Borgmon readability went away due to this video. It wasn't Sergey, it was an eng director.

Yeah, John is great. His Unicode handling in Cyrus was way ahead of it's time. I left CMU & the project 14 years ago. It's nice to know that some code lives on.

etcd didn't implement leases; it just assumed that the last Raft election was still good. You can elect a leader for a set period of time (say, 10 seconds) and serve strong reads f…

The performance penalty is on reads. If you elect a leader with a timeout you can do strong reads without re-establishing consensus.

Except that state and local governments are mostly more corrupt, more poorly run, and less well supervised by the voters.