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There are some semantic differences compared to POSIX filesystems. A couple big ones: - You can only append to an object, and each object can only have one writer at the time. This…

Slight nit: "zonal" doesn't necessarily mean "not replicated", it means that the replicas could all be within the same zone. That means they can share more points of failure. (I do…

There's now another blog post about Rapid storage specifically: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer... . (That wasn't up yet when the original post was mad…

No, not for GCP stuff. I don't know of a single GCP product that's been shut down, although I could be missing something. But their track record for GCP is, I think, what you would…

Got it, thank you! CockroachDB is the only one I know offhand that does what you're looking for. Another comment mentioned Vitess, which might also work. It seems like there are a …

Spanner offers that on GCP, and I believe CockroachDB offers something similar cross-cloud. Do you have any specific requirements for which cloud provider you use, or any particula…

The solution is posting this marketplace on a forum full of people who might like to buy and sell side projects

I mean to be fair Google has also tried very, very hard to improve home internet access for people, to the point of setting up their own ISP and running municipal fiber networks. T…

Microsoft/windows is hosted on Azure DevOps, and they have also blogged about what they've done to improve its performance! Here's a recent post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dev…

Interestingly, there was an ancient Greek / Roman equivalent: amphora (pottery vases) with bumps that fit into standard cargo racks in ships. The first picture in the Wikipedia art…

Someone close to me has Celiac disease, and getting an official diagnosis will let you do more than just eliminate gluten. For one thing, you could participate in one of the multip…

I'd be curious to know what the libraries are that allow this sort of database engine design. Are there any open source examples?

Imagine if Barnes and Noble had done it, and you could drive to one of their stores to quietly sip a drink and peruse the new machines they had provisioned recently.

I think Microsoft's strategy (I work there, but I don't have any special knowledge of this) is to be the best possible platform for development in general, not just machine learnin…

Can you give some examples of the mindset of construction and manufacturing businesses? It would be interesting to me, and I think to other people here too.

I have a suspicion, which I have never verified, that the things that make emacs great are basically the things that made Lisp Machines great back when those were a thing - that em…

It was released, and was used for the Windows repo. Search "vfs for git" - it's open source. Then macOS removed kernel extensions, so they came up with a different approach and rel…

I wonder if anyone uses greenhouses as carbon capture for traditional power plants, rather than running their own mini-power plant mostly for the CO2 output.

I don't work there any more, but back when I was at Google Cloud we developed our own benchmarking suite, partly to answer questions like this. It's open source, you can run it too…

If you adopt this article's three-category system (or any system with a finite number of ordered categories), then I think in the long run the number of positive and negative chang…

I have worked a job that was salaried, in the sense that I got paid a lump sum for the year and didn't track my hours, but also paid extra when I was on call. This is possible, and…

Making a concept intuitive and easy to understand is extremely difficult to do. A person who could do this would probably have to understand Paxos better than Lamport does. I would…