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uvdn7

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About uvdn7

https://blog.the-pans.com/

Lu Pan – I work on distributed systems at Facebook. uvdn7 upside down is lupan.

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    This is something AI would never take away from us.

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    It reminds me of Clay Christensen’s book How to Measure Your Life. In one of his talks, he talked about how companies get killed because they optimized for the wrong/short-term met…

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    Comment #44851797

    Is the non-trivial amount of time significantly less than you trying to ramp up yourself? I am still hesitant using AI for solving problems for me. Either it hallucinates and misle…

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    Comment #44552529

    You are also not locked down in C++. There are already a handful of coroutine and async runtime implementations out there.

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    > I’m not totally sure if this is a GOOD idea to add to the c++ standard What are the downsides? Naively, it seems like a good idea to both provide a coroutine spec (for power user…

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    Comment #44551997

    I am not a native speaker and I joke about my typos and grammar mistakes being the evidence that none of my code or post is AI generated. Sorry about the typos. I just fixed all th…

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    Comment #43335686

    Neat. It certainly makes oncall and maintenance easier! It is likely more resource efficient by e.g. minimizing idle compute, maximizing cache hit rate, etc.

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    Love it! I wonder if the team knew this explicitly or intuitively when they deployed the strategy. > We created a rule in our central monitoring and alerting system to randomly kil…

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    Comment #41723676

    I was thinking the same. There are many mutexes out there, some are better at certain workloads than the rest. DistributedMutex and SharedMutex come to mind ( https://github.com/fa…

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    Math, sure - doesn't the understanding of physics also go through changes? Do we really understand the reality of the world; or how do we know our current understanding of it won't…

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    The same happens in work place as well, when multiple people have similar ideas and it is unclear or impossible to credit who came up with the idea first. It is often the case that…

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    The biggest difference between automatically keeping an MV up to date vs keeping indices up to date is that the write amplification of the latter is a function of the index count y…