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One tenant sends you a flood of traffic, that you might not be scaled to handle. Let’s say your application servers are scaled for this traffic, but your single, shared database is…

Ads = revenue = promotions. I was at Amazon for over a decade. Show YoY growth in terms of revenue, you’ll get a bigger empire. Sr. Managers become Directors. Directors become VPs.…

If one tenant misbehaves and takes down your database, how will your other tenants feel?

What do you have to keep synchronized across tenants? And is consistency across tenants really a hard requirement? Would an eventual consistency model work? How does migration fact…

1. My grandchildren 2. Everyone else in my family and their good health. My children are happy in the marriages. Spouse is as energetic as ever and still has the enthusiasm and lov…

I’m convinced this a bit overblown. I don’t know enough about twitters infrastructure, so I’m only speaking at the application layer. If the code isn’t changing, things should be e…

> The people in small town Northern Germany went so far as to criticize and attack you for your achievements that far surpassed what they have accomplished. Isn’t this a salient fe…

This is an interesting thread :) I see lots of conjecture on the nature of voice assistants, or why they haven’t taken off. As someone who was at Amazon, and close to this area, le…

> As global sales for new cars have fallen in recent years, car manufacturers have pivoted toward selling software updates and features as subscriptions to generate a continuous re…

> The other striking news of the week is Elon Musk's epic flaming death spiral at the helm of Twitter. I am old, and admittedly, my oldest grandchild cares more about Twitter than …

Is your goal to turn your calculators into web interfaces? Are you wanting to learn how to do that? If the goal is purely providing something functional to others on the internet, …

I’m a layman with no knowledge of how ICUs work, because (thank God), I’ve never had to visit one. I found this article informative, and not cynical at all. No system is perfect, a…

Gah! I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis. I feel he could write a book about nothing and still make it a page turner. But at the risk of coming across arrogant, I don’t care for crypto …

> The judge should not view Theranos as "a house of cards," but as the "ambitious, inventive, and indisputably valuable enterprise it was," they wrote. "The court's difficult task …

> The way this works today, a person is competence at raising children is untill social services prove otherwise. Kinda like innocent until proved guilty. Nobody is talking about 1…

> Holmes is the mother of a young child and punishment for her is simultaneously punishment to the innocent child. If we make the case that a criminal should receive a lessor sente…

I recommend picking up a JVM language. Either Java or Kotlin. Then I recommend picking up C++. A lot of people say C++ is dead, but there’s so much reliable software written in it.…

Meta observation: At least on Mobile Safari, this page breaks the back button. I had to spam press the back button like 10x in order to come back to HN. I absolutely despise websit…

> Millions starved to death in collectivization, even more millions displaced from their homes and sent to gulags. Intelligentsia eradicated as a class. The biggest and potentially…

Regardless of how you feel about him as a person, this statement is a long stretch. Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies have been able to accomplish pretty amazing things. To ad…

I was going to call it a puff piece, but as far as Boeing is concerned: > Boeing won't touch these things due to shareholder conservatism My spouse worked for Boeing. My son curren…

> The cost of eliminating some deadweight loss is making some people feel awkward or shame when they get to the tip screen. 90% of the places I’ve recently visited displayed a tip …

> How is being on h1 relevant here? Visa or no visa people will act according to incentives designed by company. > P.S I am on H1 visa. For sure I am offended. Most of these PMs ar…

Having worked at Amazon for well over a decade, here’s more or less what happened: 1. Product, in alignment with directors and VPs, have an overarching 3-5 year vision document 2. …

> I don't care and there was nothing in my comment that led to this segue about Obama. Hold on a second. You’re saying that Republicans have been gridlocking since the Obama years.…