Yes, there is a cold start penalty but once the data is cached, it is equivalent to disk backed indices. There is also active work being done to improve the performance, example…
Elasticsearch and OpenSearch already support S3 backed indices. See features like https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/tuning-your-cluster/avail... The files in S3 are plain old Lucene segment files (just wrapped in…
Blue Origin is not part of Amazon.
Some features that Betterment offers for example * automatic rebalancing * tax loss harvesting * tax co-ordinated investing - looks at both your taxable and tax exempt/deffered accounts and directs funds appropriately…
As per the landing pages of the projects, ES has 1.6k contributors whereas ClickHouse has 803. The contributors page likely only lists the top contributors to keep the page load time manageable.
Yes, there is a base cap of $160K ($185K for HCOL areas like NY and Bay Area), and the rest of the compensation is RSUs. For engineers who are senior and above, RSU based compensation will usually be more than 50% of…
Amazon Kinesis | Software/System Engineers | Seattle, WA | Onsite | Full-time The Amazon Kinesis Streams team is growing and looking to hire software and systems engineers. The service is growing at breakneck speed and…
The comments in the original blog post suggests a gap of 60k with the offer. Your comment makes sense only if he was interviewing for a Principal Engineer position or something, but instead was offered an SDE-I…
In AWS, if anything, it's the other way around. Devs always run their own services at first, and ops teams start helping out once the service reaches some kind of scale where a dedicated ops team makes sense. (source: I…
In this case, he did delete the tweet soon after.
> Once they establish dominance or once the smaller players run out of wall street sponsored discounts, the Amazon offers will also disappear. My experience as an Amazon customer in the US has been contrary. Amazon is…
Some cars like the Lexus NX already come with a wireless charging tray. Source - http://pressroom.lexus.com/releases/lexus+2015+nx+200t+300h+...
The article already includes a couple of "not queues" that they use for event stream processing, Kinesis being one of them. Kinesis consumers also maintain a watermark to keep track of how far they've read in a stream.…
Flipkart had a blog post about this, which has some background, screenshots etc. http://tech-blog.flipkart.net/2013/10/hostdb/
Wireless charging was one of the reasons why I got a Nexus 4. It's a shame the stock wireless charger is so terribly designed though (no adhesion and unnecessary angle). Judging by the reviews it's gotten, looks like…
Did they just remove the "click on the Yahoo! logo to hear a yodel" Easter egg? Or has it been gone for a while?
I have no personal experience using redis-cloud, but their website[1] does give a good overview of their features. Currently, redis has no native clustering/sharding support AFAIK, but cloud based services like…
From his website, "In my spare time, I contribute to the open source Fluentd Project's documentation." In fact, you probably don't even need to understand Git, since pretty much everything can be done via the browser…
In my experience, even reviews suffer when you're working against a deadline to ship. Reviewers add comments, but major refactoring is usually marked with a "can do this post launch" (which, of course, never gets done)…
Yeah, they're still rolling it out I suppose. Try http://www.yahoo.com/?p=newyahoo (I think that forces you to the new version, or at least did for me)
Actually, they do have two-factor auth and apparently have had it for over a year now (I had no idea as well) Hit https://edit.yahoo.com/commchannel/sec_chal_manage to set it up. They've also finally added https support…
Firefox had a similar offering called Firefox Home on iOS which would sync bookmarks, history and even open tabs. It worked/works really well and I still use it. Mozilla, however, recently retired the app and made the…
Although the guide does mention "Separation of concerns", I've seen quite a few instances of markup that looks like the following across multiple Google API docs/sample code snippets <body onload="initialize()">…
Kudos for sharing this and showing how easy it is to use node.js and socket.io (for those who haven't tried out socket.io, you really should) I implemented something similar for my side project recently, but instead of…
Google already uses the new Pepper Plugin API[1] in the current versions of Chrome. They've also switched projects like Native Client to use this new API instead of NPAPI. PPAPI definitely seems better based on my…
Yes, there is a cold start penalty but once the data is cached, it is equivalent to disk backed indices. There is also active work being done to improve the performance, example…
Elasticsearch and OpenSearch already support S3 backed indices. See features like https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/tuning-your-cluster/avail... The files in S3 are plain old Lucene segment files (just wrapped in…
Blue Origin is not part of Amazon.
Some features that Betterment offers for example * automatic rebalancing * tax loss harvesting * tax co-ordinated investing - looks at both your taxable and tax exempt/deffered accounts and directs funds appropriately…
As per the landing pages of the projects, ES has 1.6k contributors whereas ClickHouse has 803. The contributors page likely only lists the top contributors to keep the page load time manageable.
Yes, there is a base cap of $160K ($185K for HCOL areas like NY and Bay Area), and the rest of the compensation is RSUs. For engineers who are senior and above, RSU based compensation will usually be more than 50% of…
Amazon Kinesis | Software/System Engineers | Seattle, WA | Onsite | Full-time The Amazon Kinesis Streams team is growing and looking to hire software and systems engineers. The service is growing at breakneck speed and…
The comments in the original blog post suggests a gap of 60k with the offer. Your comment makes sense only if he was interviewing for a Principal Engineer position or something, but instead was offered an SDE-I…
In AWS, if anything, it's the other way around. Devs always run their own services at first, and ops teams start helping out once the service reaches some kind of scale where a dedicated ops team makes sense. (source: I…
In this case, he did delete the tweet soon after.
> Once they establish dominance or once the smaller players run out of wall street sponsored discounts, the Amazon offers will also disappear. My experience as an Amazon customer in the US has been contrary. Amazon is…
Some cars like the Lexus NX already come with a wireless charging tray. Source - http://pressroom.lexus.com/releases/lexus+2015+nx+200t+300h+...
The article already includes a couple of "not queues" that they use for event stream processing, Kinesis being one of them. Kinesis consumers also maintain a watermark to keep track of how far they've read in a stream.…
Flipkart had a blog post about this, which has some background, screenshots etc. http://tech-blog.flipkart.net/2013/10/hostdb/
Wireless charging was one of the reasons why I got a Nexus 4. It's a shame the stock wireless charger is so terribly designed though (no adhesion and unnecessary angle). Judging by the reviews it's gotten, looks like…
Did they just remove the "click on the Yahoo! logo to hear a yodel" Easter egg? Or has it been gone for a while?
I have no personal experience using redis-cloud, but their website[1] does give a good overview of their features. Currently, redis has no native clustering/sharding support AFAIK, but cloud based services like…
From his website, "In my spare time, I contribute to the open source Fluentd Project's documentation." In fact, you probably don't even need to understand Git, since pretty much everything can be done via the browser…
In my experience, even reviews suffer when you're working against a deadline to ship. Reviewers add comments, but major refactoring is usually marked with a "can do this post launch" (which, of course, never gets done)…
Yeah, they're still rolling it out I suppose. Try http://www.yahoo.com/?p=newyahoo (I think that forces you to the new version, or at least did for me)
Actually, they do have two-factor auth and apparently have had it for over a year now (I had no idea as well) Hit https://edit.yahoo.com/commchannel/sec_chal_manage to set it up. They've also finally added https support…
Firefox had a similar offering called Firefox Home on iOS which would sync bookmarks, history and even open tabs. It worked/works really well and I still use it. Mozilla, however, recently retired the app and made the…
Although the guide does mention "Separation of concerns", I've seen quite a few instances of markup that looks like the following across multiple Google API docs/sample code snippets <body onload="initialize()">…
Kudos for sharing this and showing how easy it is to use node.js and socket.io (for those who haven't tried out socket.io, you really should) I implemented something similar for my side project recently, but instead of…
Google already uses the new Pepper Plugin API[1] in the current versions of Chrome. They've also switched projects like Native Client to use this new API instead of NPAPI. PPAPI definitely seems better based on my…