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Graphguyon Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

https://rbranson.medium.com/rds-pricing-has-more-than-double... is a good example of using the generation abstraction to improve margins. Obviously, this source is not a price increase. It’s just increase in premium over EC2.

https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/12/17/iaas-pricing-2021/ Is also great and shows a flatness in price

Graphguyon Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

I’m fairly confident they usually raise prices through new generations of compute instances.

Graphguyon UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B

Target Retirement Funds sometimes hold non-ideal amount of cash. Also, make sure you are holding these in a tax-advantaged account https://401kspecialistmag.com/target-date-fund-providers-inv....

Graphguyon Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

They do have HoloLens though.

Graphguyon JanusGraph – Distributed, open source, scalable graph database

Detailed read from two contributors on the project- https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/database-deep-dives-janusgrap...

Graphguyon OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Time will tell...MongoDB 4.2 APIs are under SSPL

"Amazon DocumentDB implements the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 and 4.0 APIs by emulating the responses that a MongoDB client expects from a MongoDB server, allowing you to use your existing MongoDB drivers and tools with Amazon DocumentDB."

https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/

IANAL

Graphguyon OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Kinda blocked on the compatibility front after the 4.0 API though, eh?

Graphguyon Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

https://opensource.org/LicenseReview122018

Graphguyon Decoding the Peloton

I have the bike+ and the automatic resistance is great. Unfortunately only available for on-demand classes.

Graphguyon Decoding the Peloton

just click the lock button on the workout resistance (can't be live workout)

Graphguyon A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014)

Fair enough. They are the closest I know outside of ultra warm from AWS.

Graphguyon A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014)

Look up Chaossearch. They do this.

Graphguyon Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Architecture and Pricing

> "Read operations assume a data size of 4K or less; each additional 4K costs an additional operation. Write operations assume a data size of 1K or less. Notably, index writes count as entirely separate write operations; they are not included in the document’s 1K."

So many customers don't account for this and it up costing $$$ if your data model isn't a good fit. Cosmos even takes it further w. 1kb units (I have spent hours on Cosmos pricing and am still baffled on how to price a workload.) Although... it does incentivize decent data modeling practices which often lead to more performant apps.

Graphguyon Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB

Eh? Source?

Graphguyon Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL

If you haven't, you should join the CouchDB slack. People there are quite helpful. https://couchdb.apache.org/#chat

Graphguyon IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

The loosening lens is a bit of strawman argument. I would hope someone at the level has experience with the business side of things... Pichai and Nadella weren't tapped to run their business straight after shipping a release.

Also, Howard joined in May (which is an important one...because this press release is about Cloud not about HR/patents.)

Graphguyon IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

I see this type of comment thrown around a bit, but a quick pass of the senior management suggests otherwise. https://newsroom.ibm.com/executive-bios? Not a whole lot of MBAs and a decent amount of engineers.

Graphguyon IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

Graphguyon Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-dbaas is built on Z

Graphguyon IBM Cloud Code Engine: The Easy Way to Run Your Code, Containers and Batch Jobs

You can send me an email if you want to chat with the people building the service.

Graphguyon PostgreSQL 13

IBM Cloud lets you upgrade major versions through Read Replicas and also do dry runs, https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=da...

Graphguyon IBM Cloud Code Engine: The Easy Way to Run Your Code, Containers and Batch Jobs

There is an amount of lock-in with any Cloud workload though right? IAM, billing, support? If you are bought into containers (which quite a lot of people are) it doesn't seem like incredible lock-in from technology PoV when Fargate and Cloud Run exist?

Graphguyon RxDB – a real-time database on top of PouchDB

That's also Couchbase and not CouchDB. They forked off CouchDB many years ago.

Cloudant (API Compatible with CouchDB) has a number of case studies you can reference for production success with the Couch API/ecosystem.

Cabify - https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/cabify-cloudant

Ticket Fairy - https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/the-ticket-fairy-cloud-clou...

We.Trade - https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/wetrade-blockchain-fintech-...

Disclaimer: I work for IBM Cloud

Graphguyon Show HN: Tired of reading NerdWallet to see the best credit card? I automated it

Bank Level Security != "256-bit SSL encryption and read-only access."

Graphguyon IBM Outages

Really good Kubernetes (managed OpenShift as well) and Object Storage services (Cloud Object Storage). The Object Storage in particular has awesome durability and easy to use cross-regional capabilities where data is distributed across multiple MZRs in a region/continent VMWare, solid database options like Cloudant, and Watson APIs. Bare metal machines, no egress fees for databases.

Disclosure: I work for IBM.

Graphguyon CouchDB 3.0

MongoDB does replica sets and sharding. As far as I know it doesn't support multi-master architectures or data syncing. Even the Atlas-style global data distribution is sharding, right?

Graphguyon CouchDB 3.0

Send me an email (in profile.) Would love to chat and see what we can do for you.

Graphguyon CouchDB 3.0

For anyone else looking to quickstart but on Kube, https://operatorhub.io/operator/couchdb-operator. Should add 3.0 soon.

Graphguyon CouchDB 3.0

Cloudant on IBM Cloud is CouchDB API/replication compatible and offers support for Apache CouchDB (1). Also, OpenWhisk integrates nicely with CouchDB/Cloudant and can even be a backing persistence for it (2)

(1) https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/announcing-supp... (2)https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/blob/master/tools/db/REA...