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What prevents a transaction from being prematurely aborted while there are some intents in flight? From what I understand, transaction A can still be replicating intents and transa…

Assuming the owner is smart and does not want anyone to detect that such a thing exists, then no one can. As soon as the owner feels that someone else knows, they will send a messa…

For the world in general, indeed, it is better than having a dead or hardly-maintained project (which needs financial incentives from project owners). Don't you agree?

Actually, Scylla 3.0 is still RC [1] and as mentioned in the article will be released later this month. And I don't think OLTP/OLAP is about LWTs. I think they are just talking abo…

Just wondering how did you replace Zookeeper with Scylla? AFAIK LWTs are not yet available in Scylla

IMO, the real benefit of biometric identification against passwords is that nobody can spy you while you are unlocking your phone.

Never trust an article that tells you to paste something somewhere (specially a console)

If you are wondering what "User-space networking" is, here is a good post by Cloudflare on their use-case: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/ It mentions netmap, DPDK, Open…

Anemic objects and whether they are harmful or harmless has been debated in software engineering for long. I find over-relying on encapsulation more harmful than useful nowadays sp…

Updated original post: Update, June 24 2016 We have confirmed that Comodo submitted Requests for Express Abandonment for all three trademark registration applications in question. …

I wonder why nobody considers Ceph[ http://ceph.com/ ] as a proper storage system for micro-service stacks. Maybe because it is mostly considered an infrastructure solution. Migrat…

Where can I find more about clustering in Rethinkdb? e.g. What is durability and replication models? I could not find enough info in the documents and the github issues are not cle…

People with a pointing stick, good luck!