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elesbao | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Erlang an albatross to Elixir adoption?

Tackling a new language over BEAM and integrating with Erlang is as big as Clojure with JVM - The thing is that Elixir used to be more erlang-y than it is now and does a decent job hiding the hardcore functional/process comm/OTP plumbing. I don't see our team writing too much Erlang but we know that a full distributed Elixir production setup will incur the same operational load as in Erlang. W.r.t documentation, I found Francesco Cesare book (and the original Erlang programming book by Joe Armstrong) pretty good to help where the doc was too terse. Maybe you are looking for documentation on frameworks ? My main block was to be used to read http or database framework docs and jump straight into functional programming and pure language documentation... just an idea.

elesbao | 4 years ago | on: Inside the longest Atlassian outage

In a side note that someone else already made: it is interesting to see that many companies that uses JIRA also uses Slack but the noise/complaint/mentions comparing when Slack is down is way different. I barely saw people complaning.

elesbao | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed

Finish your degree and don't sweat about your current job (not making little of the dire situation in your part of the world ofc). 90% of the Data Scientist work is Data Engineering so you are doing the right thing. Kaggle and others are like conferences - there are specific trainings if you wanna do good in a conference that won't get you far ahead on the job life. You can do both. Don't tell people that you are not fit for DS before they telling you what they are looking for tho. As to switch to SWE after your degree, keep doing what you do - experiment and apply. Be safe.

elesbao | 4 years ago | on: Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit

Indeed, there is a lot of room to improve. I managed a cluster that grew from 9 to 40 then to 60 EC2 Servers over 2 years, with all updates and support we could afford. It was a a nightmare to manage. The amount of cluster rebalancing, magic nodes that claim to be leader and then do not behave like it is amazing. I don't want ever to get back managing it again. Last thing I did (ES7 at the time) was to split the cluster in many smaller clusters, reimplement all counters on relational databases and use as little of ES as possible. As a former colleague used to say: Elasticsearch is MongoDB for people ashamed of using MongoDB. Hope AWS and Elastic tension helps them to do a better job there.

elesbao | 4 years ago | on: Gunicorn

gunicorn and gevent developer UX is so nice that it prepared me for Go years later.

elesbao | 4 years ago | on: Pop OS – System76

[edit] Pop OS made my macbook air 2012 usable and it became a delight to hack on Rust even given the hw limitations. Their attention to detail on top of a distro that I already respect for that is awesome. Long live Pop OS.

elesbao | 4 years ago | on: How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails

Good post, well written, taught me a couple of things I didn't knew and uses Ruby in a clean way. I don't think it meant to be uber scalable but last time I had to build search in ruby I had to use Ferret (a great lib) and it was not this straightforward.
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