Ah I had a similar one (nobody as high profile as G ofcourse). But I can attest sitting in those interview committee meetings trying to point out these biases against such candidates only to be disappointed! Well atleast you went to do bigger and better things mate!
Interesting (as someone just getting into otel) - what is causing grpc exporters to have this loss? Is this loss more by using grpc over the internet vs http or even internally within a network/vpc?
The exporters themselves are usually fine, but it's usually something in their own network where gRPC traffic gets dropped somehow. Sometimes it's a load balance, sometimes it's something else.
Are any of you guys old enough to remember when Marc Fleury got caught in an astroturfing scheme involving JBoss employees? That’s actually how I learned that word had been coined.
The MongoDB Team didn’t do exactly the same, or at least nobody caught them, but they did have a massive hype cycle, selling snake oil full of serious concurrency bugs. Managed to time their funding right so they ended up with enough money to buy a completely different NoSQL implementation, that actually did work (mostly), discontinued work on their code and relabeled the other implementation as Mongo.
I don’t patronize companies built on a bed of lies. Because how do you trust the lies stopped? They have a proven track record of being good at it. And you’re rewarding all of that behavior. The ends justify the means? Fuck that.
I suspect a good amount of the hype around NoSQL was driven by frontend developers transitioning into backend work via Node, and Mongo being relatively simple to get started on compared to relational databases. And that culture seems to have stuck. To this day, many popular backend js frameworks either completely ignore relational data storage or slap some bare bones interface over it.
I believe that this is also why we're starting to see a surge in people wanting to run SQLite as their backend database. It's similarly simple to start out with, and also similarly flimsy when dealing with actual data integrity. Very limited types, limited isolation options, ref integrity disabled by default (Mongo DB also disables things by default that hurts their benchmarks).
But hey, SQLite is better than Mongo DB, at least. So we're making progress
Good point! SQLite is simple and great for small projects, but its limits with data integrity and concurrency show at scale. Still, it's a more predictable choice than MongoDB, which has its own quirks. Definitely progress!
There might be some truth in that. I've come to respect SQLite more as a serious database though. It can perform well if you can manage the trade-offs of running on a single server and turn the right knobs. The upgrade path to Postgres is also a lot clearer than with Mongo.
Not OP, I'm sure it was Mongo to PG. I've seen it too.
Once someone couldn't scale (c2012) their MySQL. I recommend analyzing and working on the code. A competing consultant said Mongo. So, three years later they called me back to un-fuck that thing (that was only 3/4 done anyway) and then move everything to PG (and a fixed schema and some improved caching).
My napkin math is your valuation is usually 5 x raise amount and 10x annual revenue.
So valuation is 5*60m = 300m
And expected annual revenue is 30m.
At 40/month they are expecting roughly 1M monthly actives. So I am guessing their pitch is with the vc money they will get to this number and beyond before the next funding round.
Reality is more like the founders got to cash "something" for their troubles and ability to sell the dream to others. Who knows may be they will hit it out of the park before the next round.
The linked post said they got funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, Github, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI
But there are many others like Accel and Caffeinated Capital
So the funding is usually for a "future" revenue. Ie to hit this goal. Imo if they had this revenue they'd be aiming for 10x that with a much higher valuation. VC funding is all about a growth story. If you can keep selling vision you never have to worry about revenues or hitting them. There's even a name for such schemes!
They either run out funding (so be forced to do layoffs, liquidations etc) or they have to find someone who can bail them out at unfavorable terms (read dilutions) or be really really good at story telling.
Regex the "env specific variant" or regex the concept (as it applies to theory of computation) etc?
The former I can never remember beyond the basics (*, +, ?, |). Even the | I go extra cautious and put in tons of parenthesis. If I ever need matching and grouping I resort to rtfm.
Now that latter, that's the more interesting and fun one!! Learnt it in college decades ago but really drilled it in by reimplementing Russ Cox's amazing Thomson nfa blog and breakdown in typescript!
So how is grand parent "against" side walks? In fact I totally welcome it and if you look at places like Australia the public transport is jointly amazing too - that too "radially" from downtown. All without sacrificing or demonizing suburb dwellers.
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