Hacker News: BigIQ

New comment by BigIQ in "832 TB – ZFS on Linux"

BigIQ — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:52:55 +0000

Biggest question: why?

At that scale something like Ceph would be more reasonable. Just because ZFS can handle those filesystem sizes doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best tool for the job. There's a reason why all big players like Google, Amazon and Facebook go for the horizontal scaling approach.

New comment by BigIQ in "Elixir 1.5 released"

BigIQ — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:36:46 +0000

Could somebody explain the @impl feature in a little more detail. I'm confusing the terminology of callback functions I think.

New comment by BigIQ in "Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf]"

BigIQ — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:40:19 +0000

Nice overview of the pitfalls of C-parsers, their hardening, a presentation of Rust advantages, parser combinators, the nom crate, its usage, the application to VLC and an intrusion detector, the integration with those complex existing C codebase, fuzzing and a few ideas to improve rust for more security.

And I am happy to see the ANSSI here :)

New comment by BigIQ in "Pop-up bike lanes show that demand exists"

BigIQ — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:57:52 +0000

For anyone who has even read a bit on infrastructure, this is a no brainer. The problem with alternative transportation is you have to go all in to see the benefits. Half assing it won't work. But half assing it is what a lot of places do, and then they say "see, ridership didn't increase, going further is just a waste of money."