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postwait
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Comment #38535304
on-premises.... premises... not premise
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Comment #22630984
I am fairly certain this is the fastest method available https://sorting.cr.yp.to/index.html
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Comment #18722008
I think this misrepresents the pull vs. push issue. I wrote something up two years about this that was pretty well received. https://www.circonus.com/2016/06/pully-mcpushface/
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Comment #18721994
IRONdb ( https://www.irondb.io/ ) Can house multi-tenant-safe prometheus long-tail storage as well as others (graphite, opentsdb, influx, etc.). Put it all in one place, scale it u…
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Comment #18470224
In addition, if you are a freelancer in the US you have access to group healthcare.
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Comment #18470213
Most universities have special access to both IEEE and ACM publications (as well as many others). They pay for this access.
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Comment #18470195
I am an IEEE member. I am not sure why anymore, mostly I think it is important to support the industry. I am also an ACM member and I find that very valuable. The community is good…
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Comment #18404586
We have customers that generate tens of millions of measurements per second. Lots of low-level systems latencies can be collected at high volume. Also, high volume online services …
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Comment #17886111
I find this discussion fascinating. When I hear people advocate for SLOs (and SLIs) they are often quite rigorous in how they approach it... that is until the very last step where …
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Comment #16252044
Reducing "Other TSDBs" to log-structured-merge trees is misleading. Any large-scale TSDB has something sophisticated underneath and LSM is often just one tiny part of that. I would…
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Comment #16236714
Try IRONdb... Relatively fast restarts, linear cluster scalability and no downtime when a single node is malfunctioning.
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Comment #16236701
Storing and retrieving data has never been all that hard. The challenge is having user-interactive performance on complex queries against the data. Comparing and correlating and de…
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Comment #16231582
Relentless change is most likely the motivator for these innovations. However, I don't think it is needless innovation or innovation for the same of innovation. Personal opinion th…
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Comment #14690781
Technically it's systemd/linux.
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Comment #14420541
Find a group of fellow founders that you can talk with. Even if it is just one or two. As a founder, I can relate to the stress and suffering. Sharing can make all the difference.
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Comment #13338263
High school teacher.
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Comment #12550071
Ummm https://github.com/keithf4/pg_partman has been around for a long time and is used all around the world... AND it doesn't require cron jobs. Much tighter solution
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Comment #12146471
A more thorough investigation of pull vs. push. https://www.circonus.com/pully-mcpushface/
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Comment #12146448
If you care about correctness of data, solid data retention and good analytics (prediction, forecasting, etc.) then you should take a look at Circonus. http://www.circonus.com/ 500…
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Comment #11220652
We use it every day at Circonus. One of us is learning something new about how our stuff works every single day.
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Comment #7573692
Oh, yes. Like all the code I've contributed with no reciprocation demanded.
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Comment #4133443
"Talks should always be reactionary rather than anticipatory: they’re going to come off as more natural, more interesting, and above all, more valuable." I think that's not true at…