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Comment · 4 years ago
This is what I do to bootstrap my Raspberry Pi's and its great.
Comment · 4 years ago
Loki's fine if you are very cost sensitive and are comfortable with Prometheus, but it's not really a replacement for a text-search database like Elasticsearch. It also scales about the same, both being horizontally scalable (I'm not sure what Loki's sharding strategy is). Our ELK stack runs on 3 2cpu/8gb ram nodes totaling about $160 a month and can handle 50+ million of records or so (I haven't ran it to its absolute limit). This is a comfortable price to performance ratio for us and I imagine many other companies.
Comment · 4 years ago
Elasticsearch has built in horizontal scaling abilities, unlike Postgres/other SQL databases. It also has integrations with cloud providers for peer discovery, or can use DNS. Once a new data node is detected and reachable, the masters will start sending it shards of data, distributing the load. This all happens without any user intervention. I can't really speak to cost, it is somewhat easy to blow up the memory usage in Elastic for sure, but I can't say its been more expensive than similarly sized Postgres clusters.
Comment · 4 years ago
Elasticsearch is not a pain in the ass to scale, it is one of the easiest databases to scale. Kafka is medium, since they ditched Zookeeper.
Comment · 4 years ago
Agreed, though solar tech has gotten a lot better and cheaper in the last 20 years, so it's not completely fair to compare. Power storage is still an issue, but this is getting better and better each year with the prices of lithium iron phosphate batteries coming way down.
Comment · 4 years ago
Exactly, everything needs to be written like friggin dramatic poetry.
Comment · 4 years ago
> I'm a bit irate with the usual flow of discussions about WebAssembly here on HN that take this claim for granted and regurgitate it incessantly.

It is still more honest to regurgitate the claim that Wasm is faster than JS than to try and argue that "JS is about 10x faster than wasm in simple linear regression."

Comment · 4 years ago
The article doesn't give any statement from her about the use of her photos in computer science, is there another quote somewhere?
Comment · 4 years ago
"Fortunately I accept 'interesting trades' as payment, wink wink!'
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah this is a turnoff for me. I get that I could compile it myself but since the authors clearly don't want that, I'd rather just put my money into tools I know will work.
Comment · 5 years ago
Diet sodas to me taste awful, but lately I've been putting a single packet of Equal in my coffee with some vanilla and it tastes great. Lord knows I can cut out the sugar wherever possible.
Comment · 5 years ago
I love Rust the language, and the community is generally good, but for whatever reason modern identity politics has always been looming around its key members. Maybe just because it spun out of Mozilla and the Brendan Eich debacle, who knows.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah it occurred to me that I glance down to see the likes and dislikes to see how credible some of the how-to videos I watch are. A lot of them are garbage or dangerous and that's reflected in the dislike count. Fortunately you can scrub through maybe the top 30 comments to see if there's anything off.
Comment · 5 years ago

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