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thickiceon QUIC for the kernel

Why doesn't QUIC work well for machine-to-machine traffic ? Is it due to the lack of offloads/optimizations for TCP and machine-to-machine traffic tend to me high volume/high rate ?

thickiceon Ask HN: Real-world anecdotes of MySQL at scale?

a database noob question, when you say distribute the database to 50 servers all these are shards, correct? MySQL (or any standard RDBMS) can't span more than one server, correct ?

thickiceon Mortgage demand drops to a 22-year low as higher interest rates and inflation

Do you have a source for the number you quoted ?

thickiceon California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

No, these are not the traditional surnames. What I am referring to is a practice of legally changing the last name (typically father's or grand father's name) to Iyer or Iyengar. To me its a clear on your face statement that the person belongs to that caste and wants to flaunt it.

thickiceon California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

Fair points. I don't have historical data, but my observation is that the issue of brahmins controlling/dominating lot of sectors was a real problem at some point and the reservation system was a populist response that did provide some benefit for oppressed castes, but created a whole bunch of other problems and unintended consequences. And its still remains such a hot button populist issue no political party would dare implementing the required reforms. The unintended consequence is the emigration of a lot of people from the "higher" castes. I guess its hard to say if it had any material impact on India's progress but the "higher" caste population that doesn't have the means/resources to emigrate is put in a real difficult situation.

thickiceon California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

I am an Indian and have been in US for many years. There is one thing I have noticed among brahmins, during their Naturalization process many of them change their last names to Iyer or Iyengar (two sects of Brahmins).

I am referring to guys from the southern part of India where I am from. Its not a common practice there.

My interpretation of this is these folks have a perceived sense of superiority feeling about their caste and having it in the last name is a form of boasting.

In South India there has been a social movement in the last few decades to allocate quotas for "lower" caste members in universities and govt jobs to stop the domination of brahmins (merits, or lack there of, of the quota system is whole different topic). So having Iyer or Iyergar as last name would be frowned upon/judged endlessly there. May be they feel a sense of freedom here in US that prompts this behavior.

thickiceon Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster

Is this applicable for Go as well ?

thickiceon Guide to running Elasticsearch in production

Genuine questions as someone with no experience in dealing with large sclae log aggregation: Can you share some details on what kind of issues you ran into in production with Elastic Search that needed a dedicated team to manage ?

thickiceon Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

Are there videos for MIT's distributed systems course ? Can't seem to locate it in the site.

thickiceon General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf]

Can you provide some references to open source implementations of Succinct implicit trees ? How different are they from a simple unbalanced BST ?

thickiceon Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root

Any idea why it works for v6 but not v4 ? SSH authentication itself is agnostic to the IP version, no ?

thickiceon Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root

can someone help me understand this better.. Did Cisco leave a user public key in the switch and the private key has leaked ? To exploit this vulnerability attacker has to get hold of that private key ?

thickiceon How to Grow Old (1951)

What does he mean by this "My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully." ?

thickiceon Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

Looks like Duo provides a 2FA for accessing any application ? Does it work for any random app ? Are there any details online about the technical details on how that works ?

thickiceon Why you should not use Google Cloud

Do you know if gcp firewall has limits on the number of rules and what those limits are ?

thickiceon What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like

Curious, what specifically does nftables offer in this context that iptables doesn't ?

thickiceon Ask HN: AWS vs. GCP networking for large scale deployments

To be specific, the requirement is to run containers on all the instances. Container connectivity will be through a L3 network using BGP

thickiceon Ask HN: AWS vs. GCP networking for large scale deployments

few thousand EC2 instances ideally in a flat L3 network (using BGP)

thickiceon Ask HN: What kind peering agreements does Netflix have?

https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...

From the details here it looks like Netflix was actually getting arm twisted by Comcast first and then other big last mile carriers. What this article says is still relevant ?

thickiceon USCIS Will Temporarily Suspend Premium Processing for All H-1B Petitions

This is technically correct. But the regular processing can take months and you are fucked if there is any sort of emergency in the family(back in your homeland) and you have to travel.

thickiceon Docker Enterprise Edition

When an enterprise runs Kubernetes directly from the source how do they deal with bugs and support ? Doesn't that need some vendor backing with tight SLAs ?

thickiceon Ask HN: Linux networking interview questions

thanks!

thickiceon ClusterHQ is shutting down

Are you running Openstack yourself or a vendor backed version ? My understanding is deploying OpenStack in production is a nightmare. Would you mind sharing your experience (cluster size, upgrade, support etc.) ?