I clicked this and was immeasurably disapointed that the article talks about Apache Kafka, and not the author Kafka and how to understand his work with Factorio.
That would be a much much better article.
Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
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Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#42Semi related: Are other people also annoyed by how many projects are using names of completely unrelated famous things? I expected to read some wild association between a game and Franz Kafka, but no, it's about a streaming platform which happens to be named "Kafka". This is getting seriously annoying when you google for some, e.g. historical, term and then your search results are littered by some completely unrelate…
Yes, it should have been Apache Kafka in this case.
Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#43I clicked this and was immeasurably disapointed that the article talks about Apache Kafka, and not the author Kafka and how to understand his work with Factorio. That would be a much much better article.
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Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#44I recently started playing Factorio, and I kept thinking that this is what "low code" integration/automation tools should look like. Developer tooling with extremely clear visuals, obvious dataflow, endless combinations into which the rigidly defined components can be assembled to do exactly what they do.
As opposed to so many takes on "flow based" programming, which present some imperfect nodal representation of the program, but rarely can the user make sense of what's going on by seeing stuff moving around as the thing executes.
And by the way, be sure you're ready to sink some time in if you're curious about this game...it's just too good, and I've had to consciously reduce the time I'm spending, because I could just keep optimizing...building...expanding...optimizing...it's built in the shape of the reward center of my brain.
Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#45Semi related: Are other people also annoyed by how many projects are using names of completely unrelated famous things? I expected to read some wild association between a game and Franz Kafka, but no, it's about a streaming platform which happens to be named "Kafka". This is getting seriously annoying when you google for some, e.g. historical, term and then your search results are littered by some completely unrelate…
Even worse, Kafka and Apache Kafka have almost no meaningful connection. According to Wikipedia, the author was reading (Franz) Kafka, who was a writer, and the software system is "optimized for writing". (Franz) Kafka wasn't "optimized" for anything, so this is just whimsical naming. It could just as well have been named Apache Hemingway, or Apache Tolstoy. Whimsical naming is ok, but can also be confusing and annoy…
"Kafkaesque" suggests people standing in very long queues. It doesn't seem unreasonable as a name for very long queue software.
Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#46I recently started playing Factorio, and I kept thinking that this is what "low code" integration/automation tools should look like. Developer tooling with extremely clear visuals, obvious dataflow, endless combinations into which the rigidly defined components can be assembled to do exactly what they do. As opposed to so many takes on "flow based" programming, which present some imperfect nodal representation of the…
> And by the way, be sure you're ready to sink some time in if you're curious about this game...it's just too good, and I've had to consciously reduce the time I'm spending, because I could just keep optimizing...building...expanding...optimizing...it's built in the shape of the reward center of my brain.
I feel the same. It scratches so many itches. I made the mistake of installing Space Exploration mod after the first run… so many hours invested now.
Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's an oversimplification. If you look closer, you might find that most living things are mostly living in symbiosis with their surroundings. Your human body is an example of cooperation of simple life forms. And when those living cells of your body consume everthing they can and reproduce as much as they can - than this is called cancer.
Those statements do not contradict each other. Life forms consume and reproduce as much as they can, and they also live in cooperation and symbiosis. The latter can often be the most effective strategy to consume and reproduce as much as one wants.
"That's what all life forms do — consume everything they can and reproduce as much as they can"
Well, if you take this statement literal, then I think they do contradict each other - see my cancer example. But in the way you apparently meant it, then no, there is no contradiction.
Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#48Semi related: Are other people also annoyed by how many projects are using names of completely unrelated famous things? I expected to read some wild association between a game and Franz Kafka, but no, it's about a streaming platform which happens to be named "Kafka". This is getting seriously annoying when you google for some, e.g. historical, term and then your search results are littered by some completely unrelate…
It would help tremendously if the title was changed to "Understanding Apache Kafka with Factorio".
Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#49It's always good to se Cracktorio on the frontpage of HN, hopefully someone will make a similar article showing the similarities between Factorio and drugs.
Or human culture as a video game in general, and humans as semi-rational, semi-aware characters in the video game, except some of the characters are special in that their job is to deceive and exploit other characters, including constructing illusions indistinguishable from reality of who is good and who is bad, what is true and what is not, what we should do and should not do, etc. And to make it all even more exciting, not all of the illusionists are aware of their actual, often hybrid role in the big scheme of things.
Maybe Shakespeare or some famous philosophers would have seen this angle, were video games to exist in their era. Unfortunate timing I guess.
Re: Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
For small consumer products sure, but we're talking at the extreme end of performance and physical capabilities. Sure you can get a 2Ghz CPU for ~2x the price of a 200Mhz CPU, but how much are you going to pay for a 6.0Ghz CPU vs 5.0Ghz? 6.1Ghz vs 6.0Ghz?
You can go from a 8T/16C Epyc 7xxx series CPU to a 32T/64C CPU and not even double the cost.
The article defines vertical scaling as using faster conveyer belts (serial performance) and horizontal scaling as using more conveyer belts (parallel performance).
So your example of adding more CPU cores would be horizontal scaling, while using a faster core would be vertical. Vertical scaling has diminishing returns.