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richieartoul commented on PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA   planetscale.com/blog/plan... · Posted by u/munns
ProofHouse · 3 months ago
Not a single explanation of what ‘PlanetScale’ is, does (or how) on that landing page. A product, a service, a new offering or scaling paradigm, a cloud? Etc

Sure you can click around to determine but this always annoys me. Like everyone should know what your product is and does and all you service names. Put it front and center at the top!

richieartoul · 3 months ago
It's not a landing page, it's a blog, and if you read the first few sentences of the post it becomes immediately clear what service PlanetScale provides.
richieartoul commented on 'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system   sciencealert.com/obelisks... · Posted by u/unkeen
trebligdivad · a year ago
ah, have you shown that there is no matching DNA in either the host or any of the bacteria that the host has?
richieartoul · a year ago
The paper says: “in companion DNA-seq data from this project, no detectable Obelisk reads are found” which I think is getting at what you’re asking, but I’m not sure if my understanding is correct.

I’m also not sure if DNA-seq data refers to the human host, or just all DNA they were able to sequence (which would include bacteria as well I guess?)

richieartoul commented on Tiered storage won't fix Kafka   warpstream.com/blog/tiere... · Posted by u/itunpredictable
solatic · 2 years ago
> so it gets rid of all the operational and scaling problems you have with a typical tiered storage Kafka setup

Do these operational and scaling problems include AWS's managed services? MSK, Kinesis Data Streams?

At small scale, why wouldn't someone go with one of those? And at large scale, where's the Total Cost of Ownership comparison to show that it's worth it to ditch Kafka's local disks for a model built on object storage?

richieartoul · 2 years ago
Short answer is that MSK has (almost) all the same problems as OSS Kafka. Kinesis streams is a different beast that would require its own blog post.

RE:numbers: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/warpstream-benchmarks-and-tc...

richieartoul commented on Tiered storage won't fix Kafka   warpstream.com/blog/tiere... · Posted by u/itunpredictable
richieartoul · 2 years ago
(WarpStream co-founder here)

You don't have to keep the data stored in S3 express one zone forever, you can just land it there and then immediately compact it to S3 standard. You still pay the higher fee to write to S3EOZ, but not the higher storage fee.

WarpStream does this, data gets compacted out within seconds usually. Of course this is now... tiered storage. But implemented over two "infinitely scalable" remote storage systems so it gets rid of all the operational and scaling problems you have with a typical tiered storage Kafka setup that uses local volumes as the landing zone.

richieartoul · 2 years ago
I talk about this more here: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/s3-express-is-all-you-need

RE: comparing to a single-zone Kafka cluster. A lot of people really dislike operating Kafka. Some people don't mind it and that's cool too, but its not the majority in my experience.

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