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Re: MongoDB as a Key-Value Solution for Logging Events Data

roder — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:08:51 -0000

I agree you should pick your datastore based on objective, scientific measurements - but if raw performance alone is all you need, then shardnull is the clear webscale winner. You should also pick your datastore based on your need for durability and availability.

Re: http://blog.mysyncpad.com/post/2143658273

roder — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:14:07 -0000

Daniel - your latest gist looks good. I like the way you're handling the pool of connected clients. I'm going to try it out over the weekend, but I want to try without the multicore first, so that I'm comparing apples-to-apples

Re: http://blog.mysyncpad.com/post/2143658273

roder — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:12:28 -0000

Nice find. I'll look into that.

Re: http://blog.mysyncpad.com/post/2143658273

roder — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:58:47 -0000

Thanks, but I have a gut feeling that it's going to end up NOT being the cause of the issue. It's just one component that I need to rule out as well.

Re: Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience

roder — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:29:02 -0000

1. thanks - i'll look into updating v8 in another test after I test v0.2.5 of node.
2. parsing json back and forth is definately not something I want to do - I agree, but i have to filter the objects for the receiving clients based on id. Good to know about the Array.unshift though. I appreciate the tip.

Re: Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience

roder — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:27:33 -0000

i'm comparing my experience with one versus the other solving the same problem on the same hardware.

I think this reader made an excellent point: http://blog.mysyncpad.com/p...

Re: Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience

roder — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:03:32 -0000

I am more than happy to update this post. I *CAN'T* believe I forgot the version number. Thanks for calling that out - I'm also glad to hear that this might be a FD issue that's already been resolved.

Re: Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience

roder — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:33:07 -0000

I agree it's apples to oranges - thats why I said the same thing in a different way in the 1st paragraph, third sentence.

As for spinning up more instances of, that is something I would have done if I wasn't loosing memory and CPU.

Ultimately, this post wasn't about comparing erlang and node.js - it was just my experience with both.

Re: Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience

roder — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:52:07 -0000

Good call Isaac, I forgot to mention what version. At the time I had was building this in September, v0.2.3 was HEAD. That's the version I was using.

Re: Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience

roder — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:49:45 -0000

Good call Isaac, I forgot to mention what version. At the time I had was building this in September, v0.2.3 was the latest cut.

Re: ls -a, Had this song in my head all day.

roder — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:25:13 -0000

I hear this song's in my head every morning when I wake up.

My soul is black and dying

Re: Is the grove killing itself?

roder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:23:06 -0000

It would be great to have those Mall maps (you are here, entertainment in red, clothing in blue, etc)...

I'd prefer the 5am close time, but I'd also prefer some more neighborhoody bars & coffee shops.

Which brings me to point about tourists - I love meeting them, drinking with them, I'm glad they bring their business here, but I'd like to have a more communal neighborhood and something less transient. I can feel the community here, but it's not like busting at the seams.

It was a community of hippies, artists, and generally creative people that made this neighborhood cool to begin with... Once corporate america found out it could sell it to tourists because it was cool - it became a tourist destination.

I know we've begun assembling a crew of techie/hipsters/designers and new creatives who *should* be the face of the grove. We need to get behind those people, give them an outlet to express themselves and make this their (read "our") neighborhood.

And I think bringing more/better live music (think austin, portland, seattle, pittsburgh, lawrence kansas, etc), bringing grassroots arts like the playhouse (revitalized or not (think some warehouse in brooklyn for performing arts), and a diversity of hole-in-the-wall/non-tourist-destination restaurants of various ethnic varieties ....... IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED!!!

Oh and a coffeeshop I can sit on a couch and hack all day with my friends.

Re: When a co-founder dies

roder — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:26:02 -0000

I'm sorry for your loss, I lost my best friend in a car accident as well, so I am very empathetic to how you feel. That was 10 years ago and there are warm reminders of him various times in my life. Often when I need it the most.

I can tell you from my experience, if Greg was like Mike, he would want you to go on and make your business successful for him. It's what you would want if the roles were reversed, right?

I know the feeling too well, but I also know that you will heal and the best thing you can do to honor your friend is work the hardest you can to be the best person/business you can be.

Re: Twisted.web vs Tornado, part deux

roder — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:27:08 -0000

@Christian Toivola

Thanks. Guilty as charged, I have never showed up to the django meetup. I'll have a guest in town on the next two meetup dates, but perhaps I'll be able to make the September with my guest (it's actually Dan, the other blogger)

Re: Twisted.web vs Tornado, part deux

roder — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:37:06 -0000

You know, if you actually gave me productive feedback I'd definately listen to your input and redo the test. Instead, you're just insulting...why?

Re: Twisted.web vs Tornado, part deux

roder — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:15:26 -0000

@fancypantser Actually, that's a good point. I used the public IP address and not the internal IP address when I was using the Rackspace cloud VMs. So I suspect this is was a long distance trip out to the bare metal's switch and back to VMs that I conducted the test on. It may not be the perfect, low-latency test, but it does paint a picture of a realistic "interwebz" test.

Re: Twisted.web vs Tornado, part deux

roder — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:12:42 -0000

@Name That's hilarious... i love that you are insulting the work I did and said what I did wrong to make the data bullshit. If you had clearly read the post, you would have noticed that all tests were performed on the Rackspace Cloud as I said in the post.

Re: Twisted.web vs Tornado, part deux

roder — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:46:15 -0000

I understand exactly what you're saying, but that's the output of Grinder Analyzer and also The Grinder. It does give you a sense of is how long it takes the test to do 100 tests at the variable concurrent amount.

Re: Twisted.web vs Tornado Performance Test

roder — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:31:50 -0000

I'll try that again with httperf and let you know. Good response btw.

Re: Twisted.web vs Tornado Performance Test

roder — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:29:30 -0000

We're going to re-run the tests again today on much better hardware today. I'll post the results again and let you know as soon as I do. I suspect it's the fact it's my Mac.

Re: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

roder — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:49:16 -0000

I posted a performance test of Tornado and Twisted.web here:

http://www.apparatusproject...

Re: Creating a Simple AMQP Client Using txAMQP

roder — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:44:50 -0000

@ovidiu

Thanks for your feedback.

I suspect my blog post title may have been misleading - after all, what is "Performance"? In terms of your comment on this blog, you are talking about speed.

While, in the blog post I was speaking more to the event-based twisted framework that prevents blocking calls from a client - which lends itself to greater scalability.

I'd be interested in seeing your code as we'll be doing some performance analysis of txamqp in the future on this blog.

Re: The Myth of the Weed Windfall (Part 2)

roder — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:35:20 -0000

The crutch people lean on, as did yourself, is the subjective question:

"But is it enough money to warrant the societal hazard legalizing the drug invites?"

You're assuming that there will be a burst in crime due to increased Marijuana usage

I assert that the only effect on the marijuana market will be placing controls for regulation rather than defunct policies of prohibition.

We will actually lower the stress on the prison populations and probation boards for more relevant criminals that have adverse effects on society.

In my home state, PA, the liquor control board actually made getting alcohol more difficult than getting pot as a teenager. This is the power of regulation versus prohibition.

But those assertions are not enough. You should consider the affect decriminalization had in Oregon in 1979. http://www.drugpolicy.org/l...

It speaks mostly to the decrease in mental health admissions and imprisonment, which I think is representative of unleashing the Devil drug.

Re: No We Can’t-abis (Part 1)

roder — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:53:43 -0000

@rob Nah, I don't buy it for that reason either. I'm pretty sure I know why you buy it.

Re: No We Can’t-abis (Part 1)

roder — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:22:19 -0000

@rob

I'm with Clint on this one.

There are more pros with strong supporting facts (tax revenue, decrease prison population, medicinal, lower cost of drug war, better frito-lay sales) than your said speculation of the cons.

My assertion is that the Marijuana market is exists and the players may change, but we'll continue to still see the same pot market. There will always be shitty shwag and growers who grow shit that will allow you to see through time.

Speaking of Time, consider this except from mainstream Time (and then consider how much money is spent on law enforcement and corrections):

It is estimated that pot is the largest cash crop in California, with annual revenues approaching $14 billion. A 10% pot tax would yield $1.4 billion in California alone.[1]

[1] http://bit.ly/OieFl