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Re:Redis is open source again on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:05PM (#43861237)
I recently moved on to a new company, but my prior company had a pretty large scale Elasticache Redis deployment in production (over 50 large clusters in us-east-1), and were in the middle of a complete migration to Valkey due cost savings, improved performance, and reduction in memory usage.

We've already completed migrating several large production clusters and I can confidently say that the migration had been pretty smooth and seamless.

Valkey is certainly production ready (at least on AWS it is). The team is looking forward to expedite and complete the migration

I did not realize this happened, glad to see this post raising awareness, I sent my opt-out email from the new TOS
Congrats! Love seeing an alternative to Elastic/Lucene, esp. in Rust! Just wondering, for those using Elasticsearch for log storage/querying, could Meilisearch potentially fulfill this use-case also? And are you aiming to be a more "performant" and efficient alternative to Elasticsearch?
Re:Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:50PM (#23646672)
What's the pricing model? I don't see it on the website
Re:Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @12:07AM (#8322974)
For a large codebase, these upgrades will be a pain, especially on ruby/rails. To scale in the long run, it'd probably be wise to modularize & split the codebase into microservices, and at the same time, port to, say, a scala or java based framework (like Play).
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014) on Saturday August 02, 2014 @02:10PM (#8125478)
Workday Inc. - Data Scientist (full time) - San Francisco

We are looking for some smart data scientists to join my team at Workday.

In particular, we're seeking a curious, out of the box thinker and interdisciplinary data scientist to work as an applied machine learner and algorithm designer. You will bring your expertise to efficiently extract patterns and insights from millions of rows of transactional data to help optimize our workflow and come up with data-driven products using machine learning to help customers in optimizing their business.

About the Team As part of the Data Science team, you will partner directly with the core decision makers at Workday to help optimize customer experience and help answer business questions. You will work with some of the smartest data scientists to analyze user transaction data and build machine learning models to optimize search, recommendation and personalization across the suite of Workday products including HR, Financials, Payroll and others. You will work on delivering actionable insights and predictive models to help answer business questions around organizational and employee performance.

Responsibilities • Proficient in translating unstructured business problems into an abstract mathematical framework. • Excited to learn and apply new methodologies in the intersection of applied machine learning, computer science and statistics and make approximations where needed to build scalable algorithms. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to convey concise and actionable story through data to different parts of the company.

Requirements • MS/PhD degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research or related field. • 2+ years of work experience with proven track record of data science and/or algorithmic development. • Proficiency in at least one high level programming language like Java, Scala, Python or C++. • Experience in large scale data analysis in Pig, Hive or Spark is a plus. • Proficiency in atleast one statistical modeling tools from among R, Matlab or Weka is a plus. • Experience in predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms especially for supervised (e.g. SVM, Logistic Regression, Boosting) and unsupervised (e.g. k-means, LDA, EM) methods.

For more information and to apply, see our job posting here http://www.workday.com/company/careers/job_description.php?i...

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Re:Is Rust web yet? Not really on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:38PM (#7818163)
That's nonsense. Scala is pretty well known. (Apache Spark, Play Framework, Spray, Akka, Scalding, Kafka, etc...)

As for the web stack: Play, Scalatra, Spray, etc... It can also use the fairly mature Java libs as well: Jersey, Jetty, etc...

On the other hand, I don't know of any popular projects that are written in Rust, other than what Mozilla is doing with Servo.

I can name companies as well: Twitter, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Gilt, Foursquare, The Guardian, etc...

Github still probably runs mostly on Ruby as well, and for performance, you could use JRuby.

Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB on Friday April 25, 2014 @03:57PM (#7648704)
I thought they used Mercurial