jayp's comments

jayp | 1 year ago | on: Oracle's Jump to Nashville Surprises Austin

Honestly this is hard to believe. Many uber wealthy suburbs attached to NYC, LA, and SF. Probably many other large cities too.

By what metric is this city the richest?

jayp | 3 years ago | on: Monorepo Support

If you are going to use a centralize database coupled with edge compute, you may end up with far worse end-to-end latencies if your compute<->db does multiple roundtrips per request (which is fairly common in practice). In most cases, you need compute and db to be colocated.

I am skeptical of edge compute being generalizable. I do forsee a bright future for it for embarrassingly parallel problem space, where data sharding can be done cleanly based on an end user.

jayp | 5 years ago | on: Netlify Status – CDN Issues

They and Vercel both seem to be going thru a lot of growing pains. Quite a few outages over the past year.

PS: we use both (for different sites). Probably should consolidate to one.

jayp | 5 years ago | on: Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison

Hi Kevin ;-)

I am founder of another YC backed company. We based our startup on GCP infra. They have great tech (for the most part) but I regret it so deeply for two reasons:

Support or desire to help customers is non-existent. For any questions, they want us to upgrade to paid support and pay them at least 10% more every month for that (we ask like 1-2 questions a year). What? We are already paying you thousands of dollars every month! I get included support for all my software subscriptions - so this is my biggest beef. Also, when they do help, they keep passing you around from team to team and dont resolve issues as well I’d like. It is just not a company I can love as a customer.

Their status dashboard is a joke. They dont even report minor outages, when they do, they start after a huge delay and update very slowly. And worst of all - when it only affects a single zone or a single region, they remove it from historic reports so everything looks green/great.

I’ve experienced both these times multiple times.

I have to assume AWS is better.

jayp | 5 years ago | on: Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft

Good question. Probably the same. English, and especially business English, is not a precise language. I am not really an expert but was part of the larger org.

Just to be clear - colocation here is in order of thousands of square feet. The datacenter provider provides redundant utilities. The customer does everything else.

jayp | 5 years ago | on: Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft

Where is this place? I agree with grandparent - for the past decade or so, having your “own datacenter” means leasing floorspace in an actual datacenter run and managed by someone else.

I live and work in the Bay area. I was part of the larger org that ran Uber’s datacenter (co-located) and that’s how it was talked about.

jayp | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's an unsolved problem in your field?

I’ve recently started working on documenting (still very, very early) on “measuring” user feedback at https://datadriventeam.org after having 50+ conversations about it with various startup founders/leaders. It is backed by an open source GitHub repo and I hope people would contribute once I’ve gotten the initial version ironed out.
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