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Re:Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:04AM (#49179513)
Honestly MCP is geared mainly for the non-technical folks who don't understand a thing about REST or OpenAPI (otherwise, of course folks can just ask models to search/parse/code/parse and get things done -- don't need to ask for an MCP endpoint at all). Models also do a lot better with tool calls than asking them to string together instrospection, web-search, curl, etc. (that's a lot of tokens) rather than having the endpoint expose a single URL that the model can take, auth, understand, and use.

I maintain https://endara.ai and you can very quickly introduce a ton of capabilities for Claude/Cursor/ChatGPT by configuring all the stuff you use in a single place (and slicing them with profiles if needed).

Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:58AM (#16882448)
I seem to think that cloud providers are particular opaque about small glitches (i.e. they aren't going to tell you that a router or switch was rebooted for maintenance if it comes back right away and you can email support and it's always the same response: "it's working right now") :)
Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:07PM (#16879632)
We basically replaced mySQL, Zookeeper and HBase with a single KV store that supports transactions, watches, and scales. It's not a trivial point that you can just develop code against a single API (finally Java 8 CompletableFutures) and not have to set up a ton of dependencies when you are building on top of FDB. We are (obviously) experts at monitoring FoundationDB with Wavefront and we hope to release the metric harvesting libraries and template dashboards that we use to do so.

Almost 5 years in and we have not lost any data (but we have lost machines, connectivity, seen kernel panics, EBS failures, SSD failures, etc., your usual day in AWS =p).

Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:50PM (#16879483)
Nope, the actor compiler is down with mono and your need windows to compile the windows client. When we were independently working on it, we just ditched the windows code completely (we are a mac/linux shop)
Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:49PM (#16879460)
We worked on the codebase independently (we have escrow). We run petabyte-scale clusters in aws.
Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:48PM (#16879446)
We run both, memory engine hasn't seen too many updates in the last 3 years though. For SSDs, we use i3 as well as EBS-backed volumes.
Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:43PM (#16879392)
We (Wavefront) has been operating petabyte scale clusters for the last 5 years with FoundationDB (we got the source code via escrow) and we are super excited to be involved in the opensourcing of FDB. We have operated over 50 clusters on all kinds of aws instances and I can talk about all the amazing things we have done with it.

https://www.wavefront.com/wavefront-foundationdb-open-source...

Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:49PM (#16878850)
Everything is fair game, being a monitoring company, we certainly will have first-class fdb support. We already have tons of workflows and templates.