Readit Newsenether commented on Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro blog.tansu.io/articles/br... · Posted by u/rmoff
Peter (the author) is a really, really cool guy. We recorded a 3hr 30m podcast[0] with him a month ago. For anyone interested in the Kafka space, performance optimization in Rust and the general "why yet another Kafka", I'd shamelessly recommend the video:
enether commented on Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro blog.tansu.io/articles/br... · Posted by u/rmoff
I've used Redpanda for local development and testing stands. It is super easy to setup in docker, starts really fast and consumes less resources than Java version. Haven't really compared it to anything, but I remember using Java version of Kafka before and it was a resource hog. It is important when you develop on laptop with constrained resources.
to be fair, Kafka now has a GraalVM docker image[0][1] which was made for local dev/testing, and it has caught up fairly well to these alternatives re: memory and startup time
[0] - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-974%3A... [1] - https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/kafka-native
enether commented on Well being in times of algorithms ssp.sh/blog/well-being-al... · Posted by u/articsputnik
I agree. I was optimistic that one of Bluesky, Mastodon, or Threads would emerge as a better version of Twitter without the problems, but that hasn't been the case for me. In fact, a lot of the people I followed who migrated to those platforms have seemingly spiraled deeper into negativity and doom on those platforms.
One person I followed described Bluesky as the place to go if you want to be viciously attacked and torn apart by people who 98% agree with what you're saying.
+1.
Bluesky is a left-leaning political mess - I strictly follow tech-only accounts yet get posts on the timeline about what this week's monstrous White House act was. This is not a judgement against the left, but rather against Bluesky.
As another example - the Bitcoin/cypherpunk community went to Nostr. Nostr today is the same slop as Bitcoin Twitter was before. It has a tiny bit more of an organic feel to it - but it basically spiralled to the same cookie-cutter attention-grabbing content. Things like mindless cat videos.
X as we know is already problematic.
Basically the current state is that all platforms suck
enether commented on MongoBleed Explained Simply bigdata.2minutestreaming.... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
If it is, it's less fluffy and empty than most of LLM prose we're usually fed. It's well explained and has enough details to not be overwhelming.
Honestly, aside from the "<emoji> impact" section that really has an LLM smell (but remember that some people legit do this since it's in the llm training corpus), this more feels like LLM assisted (translated? reworded? grammar-checked?) that pure "explain this" prompt.
I didn't use AI in writing the post.
I did some research with it, and used it to help create the ASCII art a bit. That's about it.
I was afraid that adding the emoji would trigger someone to think it's AI.
In any case, nowadays I basically always get at least one comment calling me an AI on a post that's relatively popular. I assume it's more a sign of the times than the writing...
enether commented on MongoBleed Explained Simply bigdata.2minutestreaming.... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Have all Atlas clusters been auto-updated with a fix?
yes. apparently before Dec 19 too
enether commented on MongoBleed Explained Simply bigdata.2minutestreaming.... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
The author seems to be unaware that Mongo internally develops in a private repo and commits are published later to the public one with https://github.com/google/copybara. All of the confusion around dates is due to this.
I was definitely unaware. I suspected something like this may be up when I talked about the zero-review of the apparent PR "I’m not aware of Mongo’s public review practices". This is great to know though. Updating the piece now to mention this and explain the date discrepancy
Also, haven't you seen the general push towards censorship, attempts to ban VPNs, and all the other shenanigans happening in the EU? Do you believe this is disconnected from the legal attempts on Twitter and Telegram?
Is it really a conspiracy theory at this point? Politicians do all kinds of evil shit, but these playbook tactics are where you draw the line?
I'm European and live here, before you say I'm getting these takes on X.