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roncohen

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About roncohen

Hacker by day... and also by night.

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    Comment #46146020

    As someone who myself worked on a hobby-level Rust based Kafka alternative that used Raft for metadata coordination for ~8 months: nice work! Wasn't immediately clear to me if the …

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    Comment #43045672

    Trunk-based development works. In fact I suspect most people working in SaaS are doing some kind of Trunk-based development - some unknowingly. There are tons of misconceptions abo…

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    Comment #43033603

    Agreed! It’s apparently a divisive topic.

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    Comment #43033584

    It’s in the post :) > In practice, many teams will use a pull request-based workflow because the tests could be too complicated to run locally or need to facilitate code reviews. F…

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    Comment #36511722

    June is cool. Best of luck! Would you consider adopting the STARS framework[1] ? It was designed to solve the questions you mentioned like “Are our key customers adopting the new f…

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    Comment #31355319

    Lots of great additions. I will just highlight two: Column selection : When you have tons of columns these become useful. Clickhouse takes it to the next level and supports APPLY a…

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    Comment #28668560

    Couple of gripes: - Still no date type - Why make it more loose? Like "Strings may be single quoted." doesn't bring any value.

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    Comment #27022968

    I was delighted to see Opbeat on there (under Application Performance Monitoring). Opbeat was acquired by Elastic, Inc and turned into their APM product. You can try the Elastic AP…

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    Comment #26601051

    The other problem here is that politicians are either oblivious or simple don't care about the cost associated with complexity in the laws. On top of that, the other unfortunate dy…

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    Comment #26386768

    How do you feel about the EU being connected to the Turkish electricity grid? [1] and Germany being increasingly dependent on Russian gas? [2] [1] https://www.avrupa.info.tr/en/plu…

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    Comment #26141980

    Off topic, but here goes: If you're using Apache Kafka or similar I'd love to understand how you're using it and which problems and annoyances you're running into. Please shoot me …

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    Comment #26101071

    taking this a bit further, the original authors could probably employ this as a strategy: Since it's an anonymous auction, the original author could win the auction and then refuse…

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    Comment #25926090

    another contender is zstd: https://github.com/facebook/zstd . It typically offers better compression ratios than LZ4 at a slight (depending on your data) cost in speed. Additionall…

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    Comment #25362705

    > Not only is what the subject of the article did probably not illegal Why do you say that? The method they used consists of simply filing forms to get withheld taxes paid out that…

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    Comment #25201489

    > This post is obviously from an engineer Not really. The post is by Matt Asay who's title is Head of Open Source Strategy and Marketing. The post reads like an attempt at improvin…

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    Comment #24042222

    Maybe Elastic APM fits your need? It works well on-prem as well as on the Elastic hosted offering and you can get started for free. Disclosure: I work for Elastic