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Hi, one of the Airbnb engineers involved in this op here. Yeah... that does sound a lot like 3 years ago. The situation has gotten a lot better, especially with 5.6 and PIOPS. Thes…

From my understanding, Aurora is a modified MySQL with a few components substantially rewritten and a new, log-structured storage engine added that is well integrated with Amazon's…

We used sparkey for hammerspace, which is very similar to cdb. cdb was actually the first thing we evaluated, and it validated parts of our approach.

This is what we did, except leaning on file system cache instead of explicit mmapping.

Reading code is the best way to get better at programming. It's good to start with really smart, really good code, but you should also read bad and mediocre code (and more importan…

One of the neat tricks with using the localhost HAProxy is that developer mode can just be a single Vagrant VM with all services configured to run on the port that they would have …

South Africa was hard, but the hole for Lesotho was the big tip off for me.

The #10 state is Virginia, which is 20% African American (compared to California's 6.2%). I'd say that poverty is the more probable root cause.

Sadly, I think this is an increasingly recent phenomenon (get off my lawn). It's kind of funny given the style and length of HN favorites like pg and Steve Yegge.

I think in this case it is more accurate to label it as a parody. It sets up an exaggerated scenario that is clearly ridiculous, but it is only far enough from the current tulip ma…

Is it really so hard to take existing talent and train them to use other languages? Especially in cases where the existing library and tooling ecosystems exist (e.g. anything based…

You get that message fairly often because the implementation uses continuations ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation ). This is one functional style for making a stateless p…

And you are falling into the "if I build it they will come" trap. He definitely has a niche business. Many of us do. For most of us, our niche is tech. Patrick's niche is education…

Someone should tell the Nginx guys that blocking IO is not a problem that web servers actually have. I'm sure they will be thrilled to not have to do complicated event programming …

I psuedo-dropped out* a week ago. I think the thing that really stuck out in my case was that all of my family and friends responded with a sincere "congratulations!" when I told t…

There are deploys and then there are deploys. 99% of your deploys should be fine to go live whenever the code hits the repo. I definitely still prefer scheduled overnight deploys w…

Agreed. Can't we just say this has been a hard month for the tech community?

Amazon Prime isn't free shipping (as far as I know >$25 standard shipping is still a thing). It's a flat rate for unlimited 2 day shipping. Two day shipping is expensive, but the c…

MySQL and Postgres are awesome for a lot of what websites do. They have advantages and disadvantages. Things like sharding tend to be premature optimizations except for write-heavy…

The one major advantage of the keyboard on the old models (and why I'm glad they are still being sold) is for students using ebooks in class. For my literature discussions we often…

Seriously. Good pairs of slacks are about as comfortable as you can get in any situation. Part of the genius is the variety in materials that go in. You have everything from lightw…

I like boat shoes and desert boots personally. Both are extremely versatile and go as well with jeans as they go with khakis or slacks. As an added bonus, they mostly come in brown…

I found git to make a lot more sense personally after reading http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/ . The git parable is also very good.

"The old way, the Snow Leopard way, was that advanced features were purely optional. If you wanted multiple desktops, you activated Spaces. If you wanted to put the UI to work for …