ryanrussell (u/ryanrussell)

ryanrussell commented on Workers AI: Serverless GPU-powered inference blog.cloudflare.com/worke... · Posted by u/jgrahamc

ryanrussell · 2 years ago

@jgrahamc

Very curious if you can elaborate on Vectorize. More than edge GPU's, entering the Vector DB marketplace and a CF proprietary integration is interesting (and a bit scary) to build on.

- Will Vectorize ever get OSS'd?

- If you want to migrate either direction from some other Vector DB(Milvus, Weaviate, Qdrant, Pinecone, etc), what should you expect in terms of level of effort and features?

- What inherent advantages(latency? features?) would you get exclusively from Vectorize?

ryanrussell commented on Skip the API, ship your database fly.io/blog/skip-the-api/... · Posted by u/danielskogly

benbjohnson · 2 years ago

Author here. We're using LiteFS to replicate SQLite databases in real time so the changes sent are only incremental. I think there are several ideal use cases for sharing databases across applications:

1. Internal tooling: you're able to manage the contract better since you have control of the source & destination applications.

2. Reporting & analytics: these tend to need a lot of query flexibility & they tend to use a lot of resources. Offloading the query computation to the client makes it easier on the source application.

As for database size, the Corrosion program mentioned in the post is about 8GB and has a continuous write load so this doesn't have to just be for tiny databases.

ryanrussell · 2 years ago

Ben, fan of your work. You guys have really moved the flag on sqlite.

Are there any plans for Corrosion to be published as OSS?

ryanrussell commented on Bun v1.0.0 bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0... · Posted by u/tuananh

ryanrussell · 2 years ago

Amazing work Jarred.

I am still absolutely amazed at how much more performant websockets throughput in bun vs node.

Congrats on 1.0!

ryanrussell commented on LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom librewolf.net/... · Posted by u/jlpcsl

MrAlex94 · 2 years ago

Disclaimer: I develop Waterfox.

I think it’s worth noting that Librewolf provides unsigned binaries and at least on Windows, you need to trust a third party service to provide automatic updates.

ryanrussell · 2 years ago

These are both interesting niche projects from a user privacy perspective.

Is anyone who is more familiar with Waterfox and LibreWolf able to objectively expand on the differences between these projects?

It sounds like the unsigned binary may be a maturity issue that will get tackled based on the mission statement(educated guess?).

Would greatly appreciate anyone with more knowledge about these projects elaborating.

ryanrussell commented on FreeBSD on Firecracker usenix.org/publications/l... · Posted by u/jmmv

ryanrussell · 2 years ago

Firecracker is amazing, but has a lot of edge cases that need documentation.

A huge thank you to Colin Percival for sharing this.

Particularly love the "Once the low-hanging fruit was out of the way" line... which to Colin means custom bus_dma patch(es).

Now anyone can now enjoy for free:

"with 1 CPU and 128 MB of RAM, the FreeBSD kernel can boot in under 20 ms"

If you're used to devops with k8s clusters or lots of docker, this is absolutely amazing.

ryanrussell commented on Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it webcache.googleuserconten... · Posted by u/burnerbob

michaeldwan · 2 years ago

Get out of here with this nonsense. We tell people when we’re a bad option all the time. Do you really think we have a desire (or time) to punish somebody for doing the same?

Also, here’s the long forgotten badge, still with 3 people… https://community.fly.io/badges/107/aeronaut

ryanrussell · 2 years ago

Why is anyone on HN "dunking" on Fly.IO of all companies?

Michael - Don't take the bait.

As someone who has zero affiliation with Fly.IO other than a few PR's to their OSS(I don't even know Michael), I greatly appreciate the contributions they have given back to the community.

There are a lot of great hosting companies. Fly.IO stands out due to their revolutionary architecture and contributions back to the OSS community. I wish more companies operated like this.

It's understandable some are upset about an outage. But Fly is doing really interesting and game-changing things, not copying a traditional vmware, cpanel or k8s route.

Just as a reminder to what this company has offered back to everyone.

SQLite: Ben Johnson's OSS work around SQLite stands out. Fly.IO and his work have really made sqlite a contender. - https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/ - https://fly.io/blog/introducing-litefs/ - https://github.com/superfly/litefs - https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream - https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-internals-wal/ - https://fly.io/blog/wal-mode-in-litefs/

Who really considered sqlite as a production option before Fly and Ben? Not me.

Firecracker: Firecracker is amazing, but difficult to debug when something bad happens. There aren't a ton of people in devops who would share what they have. If you've ever used Firecracker, you've really been helped a lot by the various guides they have provided back to the community like these: - https://fly.io/docs/reference/architecture/ - https://fly.io/blog/fly-machines/ - https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/

Their architecture is beautiful and revolutionary. They're probably the first or second ones to find a lot of the new edge cases as they grow.

It's a lot harder to be the first one over the wall than it is to copy. They've literally given the average developer a blueprint to build scalable businesses that compete with their own.

ryanrussell commented on Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic) github.com/uptrace/uptrac... · Posted by u/vmihailenco

ryanrussell · 3 years ago

Can we please not call this open source if it's not?

The tool may be great, but the title leaves me skeptical of anything else.

From: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/master/LICENSE

Business Source License 1.1

Parameters

Licensor: Uptrace Licensed Work: Uptrace The Licensed Work is (c) 2021 Uptrace Additional Use Grant: You may make use of the Licensed Work, provided that you may not use the Licensed Work for a Tracing and Metrics Service.

                      A "Tracing and Metrics Service" is a commercial offering
                      that allows third parties (other than your employees and
                      contractors) to access the functionality of the
                      Licensed Work so that such third parties directly benefit
                      from the tracing and metrics of the Licensed Work.