markpapadakis

What an inspired name :)

This looks like a disaster. It is like it was fast-tracked based on the oomph factor because seriously, how come you didn't notice how hard it is to read text or even notice overlapping objects/controls? Maybe once we use it for some time, we will all get it - it is possible - but as it now stands, I hope there will be an option to turn all that off, _especially_ on MacOS which is what I use to get work done.

Velocity is about familiarity, about expressiveness, about being able to quickly translating what you want to accomplish to code. It’s also about, for me anyway, not being constrained by inherent limits of the language or runtimes. Like I said, checks all the boxes.

As for experience, I have been writing C since the very early nineties and moved on to c++ soon thereafter.

Again, all that is, for the most part anyway, not specific to this language.

All our infrastructure technology, services, and almost all “applications” we have built are written in C++. That’s millions of lines of code and span everything from IR, distributed storage and computation, ads serving, relational and columnar datastores, caching and much more.

It’s about velocity and experience. Language rarely matters ( and when it does, you can use what’s appropriate ). For us, C++ checks all the boxes.

We have been running hundreds of services that effectively consume from various topics, perform mostly simple transformations and produce back to other topics. Providing this kind of functionality makes a lot of sense.

We are using TANK, and that functionality is not available there, but given the benefits such a feature provides, we will likely use RP as well in order to save on development time and number of distinct services we use for various events streams transformations.

This is quite ridiculous. I’d say it’s obviously ridiculous but others may have a different point of view. The government there is eager to side with Murdoch and his friends for favorable coverage so that they can pocket money from this extortion stunt while disregarding the impact to its many many citizens. Suggesting Bing is good enough is stupid because if their citizens were to use it over google if google quits that market, what then ? Government goes after them and if it does what if Microsoft also gets out? And if government doesn’t then doesn’t that show to the world that it was personal with google? People shouldn’t be stupid. It’s a low bar to clear.

This is fantastic news. What would you say were the hardest aspects of the design and implementation, in terms of effort and thinking that went into those accomplishments ?

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