Hmm I think two, since Google pays (paid) Apple to be the default search engine on iOS, it could’ve been said that WebKit and Safari development might have been partially financed with this money.
But I guess that falls apart when we treat Safari as dependent on Apple, which it is.
I wanted to mention MQTT (mqtt.org) as good lightweight protocol that has many implementations.
I was surprised author made no mention of it (mqtt.org) but come to think of it it might be because author is specifically looking for queues it seems and MQTT works better as a PubSub, and its durability story which seems the main focus of the author is way different with very cool features - QoS - for delivery reliability but still not a classic queue
My strategy was to start out by implementing the underlying storage primitives first, and then look into which transport to implement later. The transport of course can have a large impact on the required storage primitives, but in my case I built it the other way around since I knew what primitives I would need in my applications.
I've been playing with the thought of implementing (parts of) the Kafka API, but I honestly haven't considered the transport that much yet :)
Reading, 'ensuring that data is actually written and stays written is rather difficult', immediately reminded me of https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER (its not written in Go though), which is basically dealing with just that outlet ( except I think the KV store might be ram heavy, been a bit since I last looked at it )
Thanks for taking the time to tackle this research.
I think you should mention that „I looked” was done with help of your AI project. That does not spark much confidence given current state of LLMs and their „research”.
From your twitter article:
> So across the ~50 or so prominent whistleblower cases against big co's that I researched with futuresearch.ai, retaliation is common, harassment is rare but does happen, but murder is not.
I mean it all sounds fun but when you consider for example low-cost airlines in Europe (WizzAir, Ryanair) they’re really efficient without any of this, since their margins depend on it. Surprisingly their boarding isn’t as structured (only priority and then the rest) and they still only take around 30 mins total from first to last passengers being let through a gate in my experience. Their trick is probably some combination of motivated passengers, asking people to put stuff under the seat in from, remote stands that need a bus and flight attendants constantly announcing „please don’t block the aisle”.
Having not one more carry-on/roll-aboard than will fit in the overhead compartments is easily the most important thing to get right. Making the passengers pay for that space is the key.
This also explains why many airlines do the boarding group thing: because it rewards the frequent flyers with access to overhead bin space!
That's the reason that people want to board first!
So why not just charge for overhead bin space? Because it's unseemly and -anyways- hard to get right.
I flew Aer Lingus recently and the flight had exactly that: 1 free item of checked luggage, pay for hand luggage (except an under-the-seat-in-front-of-you personal item).
It worked great except that the bag-check process was absolutely terrible: every passenger had to go to the desk outside security. But other airlines have solved that issue (separate check-in and self-service-tag-printing+bag-drop-only queues make a big difference).
The thing I find funny about WizzAir/Ryanair is that because they have bundled the larger cabin bags with their priority boarding, when you show up, about 90% of the people are in the so called priority boarding queue.
> Surprisingly their boarding isn’t as structured (only priority and then the rest) and they still only take around 30 mins total from first to last passengers being let through a gate in my experience.
What's surprising about that? That's how you do quick boarding. Southwest has always done it that way. They start boarding 30 minutes before departure. And stop 10 minutes before.
What the long boarding line accomplishes is that it forces people to wait in a long line, which you can charge them to skip. Think of it as a mobile game with microtransactions, but for airplanes.
It also says that you only need to hit this limit once and you’re forever on that list. Also domain is considered as the canonical domain, the part right before the TLD. Subdomains are counted together with the apex domain.
But I guess that falls apart when we treat Safari as dependent on Apple, which it is.