alexrbarlow
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Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah, basically all of the above. We rely heavily on database row locking and then checking if it's already done. Sometimes you just don't need to check to (for example, just updating a timestamp)
Comment · 7 years ago
Hi, I'm the Author of this. Feel free to ask any questions!
Comment · 7 years ago
Does this take into account timezones?
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm not sure what they've been left with is a monolith after all. I would say they just have a new service, which is the size of what they should have originally attempted before splitting.
In particular, as to their original problem, the shared library seems to be the main source of pain and that isn't technically solved by a monolith, along with not following the basic rule of services "put together first, split later".
I feel prematurely splitting services like that is bound to have issues unless they have 100 developers for 100 services.
The claim of "1 superstar" is misleading too, this service doesn't include the logic for their API, Admin, Billing, User storage etc etc, it's still a service, one of a few that make up Segment in totality.
Comment · 9 years ago
Echo | Senior/Mid Golang/Node/K8S Engineer | London, UK
We're revolutionising healthcare with medication delivery and management and we’re looking for Golang/Node/K8S devs to work on services based architecture and cloud infra here at Echo.co.uk! We’re based in London and love Kubernetes, Prometheus, Go, GraphQL, Istio and good Coffee. We have just raised a series A round of 7m funding and will be integrating with the NHS soon along with a larger roadmap.
Email alex.barlow[at]echo.co.uk
Comment · 9 years ago
Echo | Senior Developer, Developer | London, UK | Full Time | On Site | VISA transfer OK | www.echo.co.uk
ABOUT US: We’re looking for Golang devs to work on (micro)services and cloud infra here at Echo.co.uk!
We’re based in London and love Kubernetes, Prometheus, Go, GraphQL and GCP and good Coffee. We have just raised a series A round of funding and will be integrating with the NHS soon.
Kubernetes, Prometheus, Go, GraphQL, GCP, Node, Docker are all good knowledge areas to have. But generalists are welcome and new Go coders are welcome too!
Please contact [email protected] https://www.echo.co.uk/careers
Comment · 10 years ago
Interesting. I've collected quite a few from friends + colleagues already and only one has such a header.
Also, that doesn't help with my having fun and learning more machine learning!
Comment · 10 years ago
Looks really nice, often having business wide dashboard are a pain and it's nice for everyone to be able to see sign ups etc. MySQL data source is good but I'm hoping they'll include things like prometheus or others later. For now this would work with some Segment.io or similar batch jobs
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