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Re:Cockroach Labs Gets $87M in New Funding on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:40PM (#23185117)
> Running in single-node-mode with an _in memory_ database (for our integration tests) is still slower than postgresql.

Can you share your numbers to have some kind of order of magnitude for this difference?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018) on Monday September 10, 2018 @06:01AM (#17950630)
Great opportunity to work with a well funded start-up and create some awesome financial algorithms.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018) on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:56PM (#17466288)
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Re:Wal-E: Continuous Archiving for Postgres on Sunday February 05, 2017 @02:07PM (#13573936)
Have been running it in production for two different start-ups - very happy with it. The pain really comes from setting-up GPG correctly to have encryption.
Re:700 megapixels served in under 700 miliseconds on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:57AM (#12930611)
Would be awesome if Flickr or 500px would use this kind of tech.
Re:I � Unicode [pdf] on Sunday October 26, 2014 @01:38PM (#8511629)
I'm one of the conf organizers: we were on a budget and didn't record any talk. Will try to fix that for next year.
Re:French President announces pro-business measures on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @07:59AM (#5631600)
Absolutely, things are changing.
Re:Java Puzzle: Square Root on Thursday March 21, 2013 @06:33PM (#5419693)
Yup, just set a new PrintStream(new ByteArrayOutputStream()) in System.setOut() and you're good.
Re:Real-time web streaming with PlayFramework Iteratees on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @04:57PM (#4325655)
this is cool !