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Re:The collapse of complex software by 7thaccount on Friday June 10, 2022 @07:07AM (#31692425)
Kinda reminds me of what they do in some areas of the finance world with Kx System's Kdb+. That entire install is tiny tiny and you get a high performance array language for querying your SSD database with either the main language "k" or a syntactical sugar dialect sitting on top called "q" that is more like SQL.

I think of that as optimizing the entire stack for what the customer wants of rapid/high-speed analytics.

Re:The collapse of complex software by retcon on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:21AM (#31693776)
KDB is unique for translating "in house" tech to marketable CV entry status. Having Haskell and CS(FB) experience requires educating the recruitment agencies, for comparable recognition. Personally I consider every ill in computing as symptoms of the intellectual property system, from making reading potential prior art (aka learning) verboten to non disclosures making the Peter Principle look like the common cold to covid.
Re:The collapse of complex software by 7thaccount on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:45PM (#31697231)
I had trouble following your message. You've stated that Kdb+ looks good on a resume, Haskell requires explanation, and IP is bad? I'm not a big fan of closed source myself (and Kx Systems sounds like it would have a lot of red tape), but the technology is supposedly very fast and I find the language to be very simple and charming. I'd love for our analytics database to migrate , but I think the technology would really confuse our IT folks and it would be difficult to describe why it would make our jobs easier.
Re:The collapse of complex software by timeserious on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:22PM (#31700780)
Get in touch! I work within KX as a Solutions Architect and would love to see how we could help you out. cgervin at kx.com
Re:The collapse of complex software by 7thaccount on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:49AM (#31702973)
Will do at some point. Thanks for the invite!
Re:The collapse of complex software by timeserious on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:41PM (#31816413)
Anytime! FYI we've released a new product KX Insights which is a cloud native version of kdb+ that supports ANSI-SQL (PostgreSQL) and has a bunch of ease-of-use and interoperability improvements to open the technology to a much wider user base :)