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> Azure offers a large number of configuration options that can be tricky to get right That's basically the summary of Azure. I think all that complexity ends up hurting more than it helps, not just on the end user side, but in terms of lower reliability from the provider side.
Since you're one of the authors: TPC_RR is a typo.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and also commented on Cockroach’s original draft post, that this is a follow up to). Edit: I am a chump, I misread TPC _RR as TCP_RR and responded. Leaving this here for shame. Thanks to jsolson for pointing out my mistake. I’m not sure if the post was edited, but TCP_RR is definitely not a typo. You may be more used to seeing TCP_CRR which opens a new connection and then a round t…
> Azure offers a large number of configuration options that can be tricky to get right That's basically the summary of Azure. I think all that complexity ends up hurting more than it helps, not just on the end user side, but in terms of lower reliability from the provider side.
Windows is the same way: absurd numbers of options. I would not be surprised if Windows 10 had over a million configuration settings between regular panels, policies, and the registry.
Thanks Cockroach team! I'm very excited about the possibility of moving to you guys, especially since it's a drop-in replacement for Postgres. The one thing holding us back today is postgis replacement. We rely heavily on it for location calculations and route path saving.
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Windows is the same way: absurd numbers of options. I would not be surprised if Windows 10 had over a million configuration settings between regular panels, policies, and the registry.
Absurd compared to what?
> Azure offers a large number of configuration options that can be tricky to get right That's basically the summary of Azure. I think all that complexity ends up hurting more than it helps, not just on the end user side, but in terms of lower reliability from the provider side.
Windows is the same way: absurd numbers of options. I would not be surprised if Windows 10 had over a million configuration settings between regular panels, policies, and the registry.
What a great marketing strategy - publishing interesting, valuable research in an adjacent area - thereby gaining genuine, valuable attention from exactly the type of person who'd also be interested in their product, whilst also establishing a kind of thought leadership in the "cloud performance" category. I'm not even being cynical - great work.
I feel like cynicism/pessimism gets weird praise, too. The anthropologist Wade Davis considers it an indulgence and I wholeheartedly agree.
/tangent
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804939
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