thebootstrapper's comments

thebootstrapper | 7 years ago | on: Is Twitter causally-consistent?

Read this paper[1], it explains various consistency in distributed system by using baseball scores updated over different medium. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/replica...

thebootstrapper | 8 years ago | on: Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

Isn't Netflix invested heavily on Mesos than k8s for their container orchestration? for example Titus https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/tagged/titus Fenzo https://github.com/Netflix/Fenzo

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: Google Wave and the mythical man month

"The network effect will kill you unless you integrate with email from day 1."

Quoting Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: What's wrong with the iPhone 4s, and why Jobs is not my hero

Every one have/can express their own opinion being said that but speaking about some one dead recently on the merits of subjective term ('hero') is quite distasteful (IMHO) and makes me sad, makes me even sadder since it came from some one i respect.

I'm not a fan boy ( never owns a Apple made products so far) just that i don't think its going to constructive for any one around here, YMMV

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: Programmers' Day

Great day to quote from Dijkstra's good old article. At that time(1957) programming was not considered as a profession!

Extract from Humble Programmer[1]

"..in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession. And, believe it or not, but under the heading "profession" my marriage act shows the ridiculous entry "theoretical physicist"!.."

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing

Migrate to EC2 with Appscale is a better way?

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA

Fantastic reply, Thanks.

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: Heroku for Java

Not really, Amazon web services launched Elastic Cache based on Memcache thats Dotcloud's meal. Since Amazon is mostly customer driven more the need for specific platform AWS will launch likely.

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees

Brilliant. Perhaps first time I'm seeing some one using Fibonacci for other than learning programming language ;-)

thebootstrapper | 14 years ago | on: How I explained MapReduce to my Wife?

Impressive.

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem

My fault. Edited the link. Thanks.

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem

One of the main cause for "re-mirroring storm," is node not backing off from finding a replica.

Here's Twitter Back off decider implementation (Java)

https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/...

When last time i looked i was little clueless on this. Now I find its usage.

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem

Reminds me again, Distributed System are hard and the first fallacies "The network is reliable"

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In Dotcloud (YC S10)

I really like this DotCloud business model. Although i see a competition directly from Amazon Cloud Formation. What will happen to DotCloud if all the independent vendors make their software Cloud Formation ready?

There is a difference here, DotCloud making the platform ready for to you vs the vendor makes the platform cloud formation ready.(Thats AWS they make others to work for them)

Would love to see how this little, nimble start up being chased by a big, fat, bully AWS, fights back.

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: AWS CloudFormation: BeanStalk with custom stacks

RIP Rightscale server templates.

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: Who killed the Intel microprocessor?

Make sense. Although given that Honeycomb (next version of Android for Tablet) mandates dual core processor how this applies?

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

Interesting technology. I feel it creates more opportunity like your favorite IDE configured with SCM (say github) available right on your browser. Code as you go. No more setting / configuring the IDE more than once.

Now i goto grok the stack vm code. ;-)

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: Goodbye, Google App Engine

IMO, i feel this is a design flaw. Without understanding what's a NOSQL used for you can't except joins to work.

Shouldn't there be a checklist to show "What applications can be moved to cloud (appengine here)? including the myths, expectations, assertions?"

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: Hacker News India

I'm sorry I have deleted it now. Im really tired of the local community here, found very few interesting and admiring ex dev_camp.I have found many smart people outside this community who code alot.I honestly feel those are real. The one who code alot and then speak. YMMV.

thebootstrapper | 15 years ago | on: Hacker News India

May be I sounded arrogant? I'm really tired of the community here meet/attended so many people doing "Introduction to .." talks. Discovered later the real one's never attend / participate the "community events" they just code and speak less.