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SkyRocknRollon Show HN: Browser4 – an open-source browser engine for agents and concurrency

Very much excited about this. *Hybrid extraction: ML agent driven extraction

This is what I have been missing in the existing systems

SkyRocknRollon AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds

This is true.

If I want to troubleshoot production environment most of the time ai slows me down. It is better if I think and debug than asking the AI

SkyRocknRollon The Jobs to Be Done by the Ideal Postgres Extension Ecosystem

Looks like it is

SkyRocknRollon Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

Nutanix is strong contender for this use case. We see lot of workloads moving from Cloud to onprem on nutanix stack. P.S I work on engineering side in nutanix.

https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...

SkyRocknRollon Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

We use Victoria Metrics in Prod for more than 6 months. It is very reliable and scalable. Victoria metrics handles more than 2B+ series in our setup without breaking a sweat.

SkyRocknRollon Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system

Most of the flaws of Kafka are carefully studied and fixed in Apache pulsar. I have written a blog about why we went ahead with pulsar https://medium.com/@yuvarajl/why-nutanix-beam-went-ahead-wit...

SkyRocknRollon WireGuard is in net-next

my 4-year-old son learns English using sheLL :)

SkyRocknRollon Apache Kafka on Kubernetes

Please look at http://pulsar.apache.org/ which is multiple fold better than kafka on scaling as well as easy to operate

SkyRocknRollon Hermes – A message broker built on top of Kafka

If any of you looking for message and streaming system under single system then pulsar.apache.org supports both and lot more reliable and scales better than kafka

SkyRocknRollon SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

We love playing this game.

SkyRocknRollon Show HN: Free India Mutual Funds API

Developer here. The cost of running this api is very minimal. Also later I may sell technical indicators for mutual fund. But API will always be free. You can rely on it

SkyRocknRollon Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data

This lot more similar to apache bookeeper.

SkyRocknRollon Ask HN: Successful startups using Rust?

https://linkerd.io

SkyRocknRollon From Google to the world: the Kubernetes origin story

Well written.

SkyRocknRollon Gracefully Scaling to 10k PostgreSQL Connections for $35/mo, Part Two

Thanks for sharing..

SkyRocknRollon Ask HN: How many of you have used Orkut?

In our college we used orkut. I have even built an web proxy to make orkut work within our campus. PS: I am from India

SkyRocknRollon Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?

First 90 days from HBR

SkyRocknRollon Ask HN: Nomad (Hashicorp) vs. Kubernetes?

We use nomad in production for last 3 years. Recently we thought of moving to kubernetes and did a prototype for one of our products because of community is big and growing. After looking at the sheer complexity we decided to stick with nomad. The best part about nomad is it solves single problem very well and it is very simple to understand and maintain. Developers are able to grok the nomad in matter of minutes which is a big win for us because they are the one who writes nomad files.

SkyRocknRollon Prometheus 2.0

Does this storage engine onpar with influxdb ?

SkyRocknRollon HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016)

We moved away from nginx to envoy https://envoyproxy.github.io/ . With envoy you get best of both the world with hot reload. Envoy excels in metrics as well as remote configuration.

SkyRocknRollon A pitfall of golang scheduler

Good One !

SkyRocknRollon RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0

$25K

SkyRocknRollon SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition

Here is a video on facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/dailybreeze/videos/1015491266465432...

SkyRocknRollon Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59

We are affected by this. Our elasticsearch process were getting killed even though we set xmx to half of the ram. Now reverting the kernel.

SkyRocknRollon Show HN: Chronograf from Influxdb is Opensource now

Release Blog : https://www.influxdata.com/announcing-the-new-chronograf-a-u...

SkyRocknRollon Ask HN: What's your backup plan for 2Factor authentication if you lose your phone