Hacker News: pselbert

New comment by pselbert in "Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq: From Employment to Independence"

pselbert — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:20:01 +0000

Jobs may crash due to VM issues or OOM problems. The more common cause of "orphans" is when the VM restarts and jobs can't finish during the shutdown period.

Oban Pro v0.14 Released

pselbert — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:01:54 +0000

Article URL: https://getoban.pro/articles/oban-pro-0-14-released

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554754

Points: 2

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Sell Your Library for Money

pselbert — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:46:19 +0000

Article URL: https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-01-25-sell-your-library-for-money

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34782024

Points: 2

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From GPT2 to Stable Diffusion: Hugging Face Arrives to the Elixir Community

pselbert — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:42:03 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/elixir-bumblebee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33922491

Points: 4

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Oban Starts Where Elixir’s Tasks End

pselbert — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://getoban.pro/articles/oban-starts-where-tasks-end

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33287258

Points: 2

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New comment by pselbert in "Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown"

pselbert — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 23:53:53 +0000

How in the world does DocuSign have 7k employees? I’m genuinely baffled. 700 employee would seem like a stretch.

One Million Jobs a Minute with Oban

pselbert — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:26:42 +0000

Article URL: https://getoban.pro/articles/one-million-jobs-a-minute-with-oban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31658981

Points: 3

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New comment by pselbert in "Heroku Security Notification"

pselbert — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 04:43:50 +0000

For many accounts the audit log isn’t going to show some crucial information—git activity. Clone events are only available through the REST API for Enterprise customers.

New comment by pselbert in "Professional maintainers: a wake-up call"

pselbert — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 20:06:57 +0000

The only reason I’m able to maintain a reasonably successful open source library is because it is part of an open core business model. Without that I couldn’t justify the development effort or relentless support to myself, or my family. Getting a few hundred dollars a month wouldn’t cut it either.

Building a business on a stack of other people’s hobbies isn’t sustainable. I mean, just tell that to anybody outside of tech and watch their reaction.

New comment by pselbert in "Good and Bad Elixir"

pselbert — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:01:57 +0000

One of the best parts of listening to Elixir Outlaws, the podcast that Chris co-hosts, is disagreeing with his wacky and strongly-held opinions on things. Personally, I don't agree with most of what he's calling out here, but it's still a great read to get you thinking.

New comment by pselbert in "Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?"

pselbert — Tue, 18 May 2021 12:50:18 +0000

Running 75 million jobs a year would be totally fine. Depending on the configuration and load Oban easily runs thousands of jobs a second, and 75 million breaks down to less than 3 a second.

I’d argue it’s worth the switch, but I’m highly biased!

New comment by pselbert in "Praise for Alpine Linux"

pselbert — Mon, 10 May 2021 13:36:16 +0000

The size of Alpine and its package manager are brilliant. What gets me, and my team, is the support policy for “older” packages.

For a while we would pin library versions (e.g. libvips) only to have the pin break the build because the package was no longer provided. That’s only a few months later, not years. It seriously impacts the repeatability of Docker builds.

Now we don’t pin to the same extent and lack some confidence, but at least it doesn’t break the build.

Cyberattack Forces Closure of Largest U.S. Refined-Fuel Pipeline

pselbert — Sat, 08 May 2021 13:30:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyberattack-forces-closure-of-largest-u-s-refined-fuel-pipeline-11620479737

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086959

Points: 4

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New comment by pselbert in "Free for Developers"

pselbert — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:38:01 +0000

Couldn't help but think of:

Brian Called Brian: You don't need to follow me! You don't need to follow anybody! You got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals! You're all different!

Man: I'm not...

Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available

pselbert — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:56:46 +0000

Article URL: https://dashbit.co/blog/nx-numerical-elixir-is-now-publicly-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170841

Points: 4

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Elixir Nx Repo Now Open

pselbert — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:26:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166015

Points: 14

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New comment by pselbert in "José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]"

pselbert — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:34:33 +0000

There isn't an issue with Kafka and Elixir, it's the inherent complication around using Kafka when a lighter weight solution (Rabbit, PG) would work perfectly fine.

New comment by pselbert in "José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]"

pselbert — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:08:23 +0000

José is an enormous asset to the community and has an influence on many of the marquee projects, but it definitely isn't single-handedly done. He cares about the ecosystem and is very generous with his time and attention.

Anecdotally speaking, he hasn't been hands on with Oban[1], yet he still offers advice and guidance around the project because it is in the Elixir community.

1: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

New comment by pselbert in "SVG Path Editor"

pselbert — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 23:34:04 +0000

That project is fantastic! I'll soon have need for some clean SVG language icons and these are perfect.

New comment by pselbert in "A brief introduction to BEAM"

pselbert — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 01:02:08 +0000

According to the recent Thinking Elixir podcast [0] the performance is comparable. They specifically cite the performance of dialyzer, which typically runs through HiPE, as being just as fast with the new JIT.

From what I recall HiPE isn't widely used and will be (may be?) removed.

[0]: https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/017-jit-compiler...