May I ask why is there a link to "Bob Marley Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (youtube) at the bottom right of your website? : )
RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
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Re: RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
#192What the heck does "built with love" even mean? Is this just a hipster marketing term to tell us that it's small and cute and made by people who play ukuleles and ride unicycles in their spare time, and not by evil corporate people who commute to work and have mortgages? I find a lot of advertising eyeroll inducing, and the current trend of more-hipster-than-thou posturing is right at the top.
Made with love = Made not just for money, but Made for making the world a better place.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to preface my comment: this is impressive work, congratulations on shipping, and this is what MongoDB should have been from the start. In reality, most transactional database deployments are heavily skewed towards read workload, so reading from hot slaves is basically a requirement for master/slave databases. So, in most real world applications at scale, apps already deal with inconsistencies between slaves an…
I mostly agree with what you're saying, but I also think there's enormous value in making easy things be really easy. Even with today's state of the art adding a shard, dealing with consistency issues, adding replicas, etc. is relatively hard. Perhaps not in a computer-sciency sense (all the problems are fairly well understood), but in an operational sense. Lots and lots of work needs to be done even with systems lik…
there are tougher problems like high-performance cross-document distributed ACID, but I think the industry as a whole is relatively far away from that right now
Megastore and Spanner solve that problem, with varying tradeoffs:
Re: RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for this work, it looks really nice. I was looking at the github comments about a home brew recipe in which it was stated that aside from a recipe creating a VM, the Mac OS X port would take a bit longer. Is that a full port from one language to another? Or just an issue of the different flavors of *nix that need dealing with and probably some of the dependency tree issues that come with it? I'm curious what n…
Seems to me that most of us who have used MacPorts have moved to Homebrew or that could just be the bubble I'm living in. Is there anyone still who still uses MacPorts who could chime in and say why they never made the switch?
Why would I switch to homebrew? I've been using Macports for 2 years now and I never had any issues with it. It works.
Also migrating from Macports to homebrew (in case there's a good reason to do it) it would be a painful experience. I would have to start from scratch right?
Re: RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you could use fixed point math: 600 in database means $6.00 Then aggregates and comparison operators would work, but you would have to decide upfront how much precision you might ever need
That sounds good, but with only 53 bits of integer precision in JSON (51 if you move the decimal point to account for cents), there's just not enough digits for finance these days. A similar problem exists if you use JSON numbers (aka doubles) for timestamps –- the numbers just aren't big enough to do it accurately.
Interesting, that is something i not think about much, any solution to that?
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#196 joe@alchemist~$ rethinkdb
joe@clockwerk~$ rethinkdb -j alchemist:29015
Re: RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
#197Thought I'll share this with you. A yc company hired me. I showed up at their mountain view office. The founder said "This is the former office of RethinkDB! I hope we are as successful as them." I didn't know who/what RethinkDB was, so I said ok, sure. 3 days later he asked me to clear my desk and leave. He said "You are the sort of person who should work in RethinkDB". So I asked "What does that mean ?" He said "Re…
Wow that's special. Sounds to me like they're tools. You can't really expect an employee to know they're way around the code base after only 3 days. Hell most places you find yourself sitting on your thumbs the first week due to everyone being too busy to spend much time orienting you.
My thoughts exactly. I sometimes read about these people getting fired from IT jobs after a couple days and keep wondering why their bosses even hired new people. Either the boss is too overconfident in their ability to gauge someone's skills based on a couple of days, or they never really needed new people.
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#198am I the only one that noticed the lambda at the bottom right of the webpage? :)
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#199joe@alchemist~$ rethinkdb joe@clockwerk~$ rethinkdb -j alchemist:29015 Dota player?
Oh yes!
Re: RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
#200What the heck does "built with love" even mean? Is this just a hipster marketing term to tell us that it's small and cute and made by people who play ukuleles and ride unicycles in their spare time, and not by evil corporate people who commute to work and have mortgages? I find a lot of advertising eyeroll inducing, and the current trend of more-hipster-than-thou posturing is right at the top.
Releasing a project like this means working very hard for a long time without anybody patting you on the back saying you're doing a good job. It's exhausting, a labour of love. Get it now?
I reckon $1.2 million in funding helped soften the pain :)