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Re:I want to convince you to have an on-premise offering on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:53PM (#38535304)
on-premises.... premises...

not premise

Re:Skylinesort on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:54PM (#22630984)
I am fairly certain this is the fastest method available https://sorting.cr.yp.to/index.html
I think this misrepresents the pull vs. push issue.

I wrote something up two years about this that was pretty well received. https://www.circonus.com/2016/06/pully-mcpushface/

IRONdb (https://www.irondb.io/)

Can house multi-tenant-safe prometheus long-tail storage as well as others (graphite, opentsdb, influx, etc.). Put it all in one place, scale it up, radically storage efficient and has strong non-stop HA guarantees. It is state of the art, it isn't free.

Disclaimer: I'm the CEO of Circonus (IRONdb's home).

Re:Ask HN: Are any of you IEEE members? on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:32PM (#18470224)
In addition, if you are a freelancer in the US you have access to group healthcare.
Re:Ask HN: Are any of you IEEE members? on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:31PM (#18470213)
Most universities have special access to both IEEE and ACM publications (as well as many others). They pay for this access.
Re:Ask HN: Are any of you IEEE members? on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:30PM (#18470195)
I am an IEEE member. I am not sure why anymore, mostly I think it is important to support the industry.

I am also an ACM member and I find that very valuable. The community is good, the policy engagement is good, the publications are excellent, and their employer subsidy program is excellent. I work at Circonus and we pay for everyone's ACM membership as an employee benefit (including the digital library) and it makes each and every one a more valuable employee -- such an easy investment to justify.

I am also highly active with the ACM. I am currently an ACM Member at Large, so if anyone would like to see any changes within the ACM (and you are a member) I'm here to represent you practitioners! The ACM Turing award (amongst all the other distinguished awards) and very important to rewarding innovation and progress in computing. The ACM is aces.

Re:Why Not to Build a Time-Series Database on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:58AM (#18404586)
We have customers that generate tens of millions of measurements per second. Lots of low-level systems latencies can be collected at high volume. Also, high volume online services can easily generate this order of magnitude.
Re:Latency SLOs done right on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:01AM (#17886111)
I find this discussion fascinating. When I hear people advocate for SLOs (and SLIs) they are often quite rigorous in how they approach it... that is until the very last step where they hand-wave the math and produce numbers that don't mean anything (like averages of percentiles and such). Often times (specifically for sites/services that have undulating traffic volume like more users in the day than at night), the incorrect mathematics can produce wildly inaccurate outputs... so all that rigor and you end up determining that you've failed or succeeded when, in fact, the opposite is true.

I appreciate the rigor in this post because it provides clear and simple instructions on doing the last step (your calculations) correctly so that all those fancy SLOs are actually honest.

Re:It’s About Time for Time Series Databases on Sunday January 28, 2018 @12:01PM (#16252044)
Reducing "Other TSDBs" to log-structured-merge trees is misleading. Any large-scale TSDB has something sophisticated underneath and LSM is often just one tiny part of that. I would argue (as most do) that any TSDB "simply used an LSM" it would be doomed at any scale over time.
Re:It’s About Time for Time Series Databases on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:56PM (#16236714)
Try IRONdb... Relatively fast restarts, linear cluster scalability and no downtime when a single node is malfunctioning.
Re:It’s About Time for Time Series Databases on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:54PM (#16236701)
Storing and retrieving data has never been all that hard. The challenge is having user-interactive performance on complex queries against the data. Comparing and correlating and deriving and integrating and ... (lots of other analysis). For many "scaled" systems, 100M records/minute isn't uncommon... and while that's very likely possible with your design the question of economic feasibility enters. Solving these problems at scale with good economics is the playground of TSDB vendors today.
Re:It’s About Time for Time Series Databases on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:45AM (#16231582)
Relentless change is most likely the motivator for these innovations. However, I don't think it is needless innovation or innovation for the same of innovation. Personal opinion that there isn't much innovation in what this article covers, but still it is happening elsewhere.

Changes in telemetry production (IoT and others) have fundamentally changed the requirements... millions (and often billions) of data points points per-second are now happening. This is being driven by RSM and IoT. RSM is alluded to in my ACM Queue article: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3178371

Re:Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:07PM (#14420541)
Find a group of fellow founders that you can talk with. Even if it is just one or two. As a founder, I can relate to the stress and suffering. Sharing can make all the difference.
Re:Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do? on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:36PM (#13338263)
High school teacher.
Re:Pgslice: Postgres partitioning as easy as pie on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:04PM (#12550071)
Ummm https://github.com/keithf4/pg_partman has been around for a long time and is used all around the world... AND it doesn't require cron jobs. Much tighter solution
Re:Ask HN: Best monitoring system? on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:18PM (#12146471)
A more thorough investigation of pull vs. push.

https://www.circonus.com/pully-mcpushface/

Re:Ask HN: Best monitoring system? on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:14PM (#12146448)
If you care about correctness of data, solid data retention and good analytics (prediction, forecasting, etc.) then you should take a look at Circonus.

http://www.circonus.com/

500 metrics accounts are free for life.

Built by SREs for SREs.

Re:Leaving Mozilla on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:42PM (#11220652)
We use it every day at Circonus. One of us is learning something new about how our stuff works every single day.
Oh, yes.

Like all the code I've contributed with no reciprocation demanded.

Re:What They Don't Tell You About Public Speaking on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:43PM (#4133443)
"Talks should always be reactionary rather than anticipatory: they’re going to come off as more natural, more interesting, and above all, more valuable."

I think that's not true at all. There is room for both. I would say do not mix them. Talks can either share what's been done or share what can be from a visionary perspective.

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011) on Monday August 01, 2011 @10:00AM (#2832150)
Columbia, MD

Circonus - https://circonus.com/about/careers

Startup. Game on. [email protected]

Enjoying the discussion. The argument that HTTP status codes are "good enough" is one perspective. While I don't buy into everything in the "spec" proposed here, I think having application specific errors that make more sense is reasonable.

In response to there being no method of feedback, looks like the mailing list is linked up now: http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/jsend-users

While I might no agree with everything presented in the project, I do agree that it is somewhat arbitrary (and certainly complex) mapping HTTP status codes into every JSON API.