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argvzeroon Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

I don't see a "DSL" here. Do you mean "interface"?

argvzeroon How A Blog Post Got 10K Google +1′s And 60 Inbound Links In 48 hours

Why is this SEO bullshit on the front page?

argvzeroon Why You Should Never Use MongoDB

you keep using that word "relations". i do not think it means what you think it means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra

argvzeroon Why You Should Never Use MongoDB

how does it feel to be a piece of shit?

argvzeroon Show HN: Native apps for the browser

so this thing downloads arbitrary binaries with no verification and makes them executable on my local machine?

cool story bro. probably some cool hacks in here but no one is going to use this.

argvzeroon Call me maybe: Cassandra

haha no worries my friend :) glad you enjoyed the talk!

argvzeroon Call me maybe: Cassandra

advice from someone who's been at this nosql thing for about 6 years now. schadenfreude will always come back to bite you. tread lightly.

argvzeroon Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams

Basho's Chief Architect here. I was talking about self-taught programmers and companies irrational bias towards people with CS degrees.

I didn't say "lie and misrepresent", I said "BS and charm". It was a rephrasing of an earlier tweet of mine:

https://twitter.com/argv0/statuses/222618738250350592

My main point was that all this stuff can be learned without a degree, but should always be learned, and that these jobs mainly require skills not taught in school; that charm goes a long way, etc.

Your parsing of what I said is unfortunate and your characterization of what I was espousing ('sociopathic', 'cheaters') is wrong.

EDIT: Try to interpret what I said in a positive way.

I was talking about personal intellectual growth, not obtaining things you don't deserve via lies.

I was talking only about bootstrapping yourself into a career you want - of course you must then master whatever it is you have set out to do or will be found out and fired.

If you want a job and know you can learn it, then obtain that job however you can and prove yourself.

argvzeroon Our take on RethinkDB vs. MongoDB

Sounds good - I'll see you there!

argvzeroon Our take on RethinkDB vs. MongoDB

Chief Architect at Basho here:

Saying Riak is categorically non-operations-oriented is a bit hyperbolic, but I will be the first to acknowledge that we need even more visibility into failure-recovery / degraded mode situations. I've spoken to a few customers who have "cheat sheets" of Erlang console commands they use to debug things like handoff slowness or poor performance in general. This alone means we need to do better,

On the other hand, Riak continues to function in scenarios where other databases would be completely unavailable. I'll take immature visibility during those situations over complete unavailability any day,

I appreciate your feedback - I can assure you that this is something we're constantly working on and you'll see improvements with each release.

Finally, if you've been bitten by anything specific you'd like to see fixed, we do all our development in the open at http://github.com/basho, so github issues, pull requests, etc go right into our internal tools and workflows.

Cheers,

Andy Gross

argvzeroon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

Basho is hiring! Many (>20) positions, many locations:

http://bashojobs.theresumator.com/

argvzeroon The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system

If you're looking to actually implement Paxos, check out "Paxos Made Moderately Complex" by Robert van Renesse: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs7412/2011sp/paxos.pdf

argvzeroon Riak 1.1 Released

Correct. I've heard conflicting accounts on how much of the original Dynamo was/is used by S3.

(Also, if you like S3, keep your eyes on Basho over the next few weeks).

argvzeroon LevelDB: a fast and lightweight key/value database library

Was really psyched until I saw --std=c++0x in the Makefile. What 0x features does leveldb depend on, and can those dependencies be realistically removed?

argvzeroon The author of Nginx on why V8 is not suitable for web servers

Let me guess. You've never embedded a language VM into another system?

argvzeroon 3 Types of Programmers: Zerg, Terran, Protoss

Wait, Dave Winer in the same class as Ritchie and Thompson? Really?

argvzeroon An obscure kernel feature to get more info about dying processes

u mad!

argvzeroon Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large

Twisted Python, Eventmachine, libevent, boost::asio, NS/CFRunLoop, to name just a few.

argvzeroon Basho (creators of Riak, growing quickly) opens SF office

We look forward to it! We have Riak t-shirts too.

We've also just started the San Francisco Riak Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Riak-Meetup/ .

argvzeroon Bitcask: because you needed another local key/value store

Some perf numbers:

Bitcask vs. InnoDB (by Dave Smith): http://twitter.com/dizzyco/status/13014285189

Bitcask vs. Tokyo Cabinet (by Jeff Darcy): http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2868

argvzeroon Distributed Erlang Systems In Operation: Patterns and Pitfalls

Here's the actual slides to my talk:

http://www.slideshare.net/argv0/distributed-erlang-systems-i...

The video should be up sometime soon on http://erlang-factory.com, or you can follow me at http://twitter.com/argv0 and I'll be sure to link to the video of the talk when it comes out.

There's also a lot of similarly interesting content on http://blog.basho.com