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New comment by brunkerhart in "Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design"

brunkerhart — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:15:19 +0000

Databricks introduced Lakebase exactly for this purpose. Lakebase supports branching that makes querying, schema evolution and writes cheap. Each agent can run its own branch without affecting production data.

New comment by brunkerhart in "AWS European Sovereign Cloud"

brunkerhart — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:07:51 +0000

This discussion presumes the laws would be obeyed, but we see the laws being openly bended by nations wanting to.

For a small/medium business in EU ESC is an overkill. Their data has no strategic value. Just use whatever infrastructure you want.

For any large company working at global level, owning cutting edge technology ESC is not a protection.

US just stolen a president of foreign country, do you really believe they would hesitate to do this with anybody else if they want?

New comment by brunkerhart in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

brunkerhart — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:50:13 +0000

Write to aws abuse team

New comment by brunkerhart in "The tools I love are made by awful people"

brunkerhart — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:29:10 +0000

Have the author did the reality check exercise? What might seem as awful conditions by some westerner, might be great given other options. Once I read a post about working at Foxconn - assembly line for majority of hardware manufacturers. You might remember people were dropping off the roof because of hard working conditions. Yet they have a line of candidates. Because the other option is working at the same intensity but at no conditioned and barely ventilated clothing shop.

New comment by brunkerhart in "Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics"

brunkerhart — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:36:57 +0000

Running on-prem/colo across two sites linked with 1 digit latency link won’t be free of charge either

New comment by brunkerhart in "How ruthless is Amazon, really?"

brunkerhart — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:51:24 +0000

The answer depends on where you would like to spend your time on. If you believe your customers will be yours because yourygreat at operating poatgress datbase - do it, if your value in something else, go with AWS RDs postgress. Younwill save a ton of time in exchange of delegating database management to aws. Use this time to develop features your customera are looking for. If you would like to leave aws eventually it still be the same postgress that you can run anywhere you like

New comment by brunkerhart in "Stop Doing Business with Russia"

brunkerhart — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:31:05 +0000

This is very oversimplified view on what happens and thus provides wrong solution.

I would recommend you to watch this interview https://youtu.be/6xIeLJGcpfU. Alexander Shtefanov is not Welcomed by bot Ukrainians and Russian “patriots” because he reveals truth unpleasant for both sides

New comment by brunkerhart in "Cloud, Why So Difficult?"

brunkerhart — Sat, 27 May 2023 03:54:10 +0000

What complexity are we talking about? If your app needs queues, databases or shared storage, it is because of how you designed it. Now just imagine you’re doing this yourself: install servers, os, software, configure integrations, do patches, upgrades, repair hardware. Would it be any simpler?

New comment by brunkerhart in "Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content for other roles"

brunkerhart — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:51:01 +0000

It is hard to find good content on other verticals though. I saw ask for something like HN for different other industriesmany times here, but never saw any relevant answer

New comment by brunkerhart in "Show HN: An AWS Savings Plans Calculator"

brunkerhart — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:50:37 +0000

How is your calculator better than aws own tools?

New comment by brunkerhart in "The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain"

brunkerhart — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:03:03 +0000

Just out of curiosity, what salary you compare with when saying it's really good? Salary is not the only motivator. What is the size of your company? How it is rated as an employer?

New comment by brunkerhart in "In China, Bill Gates encourages the world to build a better toilet"

brunkerhart — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 20:21:39 +0000

Sorry, this is how capitalism works: if you earned the money, you are free to do whatever you like with them. Total control is the communist way

New comment by brunkerhart in "Soviet Children’s Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda"

brunkerhart — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 08:45:00 +0000

I was a kid during soviet time. Propaganda books, i.e. books about revolution was a minority.

Most of the books were regular children books about how to make friends, how to behave, how to study. There were books about science and fairy tales. Prose and poetry. There eas translation of books from authors from capitalist countries.

The kid books was very cheap like 3-5 kopeck (0.03-0.05 of rouble) with the average salary of abou 35 roubles.

The only problem was that most interesting books, teens books were rarely available in book shoops, but you could borrow it at a library. Libraries were available at every school as well as at district and city level.

New comment by brunkerhart in "Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?"

brunkerhart — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 17:31:59 +0000

Have a look on maps.yandex.ru

Ask HN: What services do you miss in modern data centers?

brunkerhart — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:15:09 +0000

We’re opening a new data center facility and discuss how our product shall look like. What we can provide to our customers besides of renting space by room, rack or unit? What do you miss in current offerings?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18088146

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What app would you make, if you have access to all mobile operator data?

brunkerhart — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 09:02:55 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15884956

Points: 2

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