Hacker News: tbarbugli

New comment by tbarbugli in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

tbarbugli — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:18:03 +0000

At getstream.io we ended up running Github Actions on Hetzner. The end-result is 4x faster builds for 3x less $$$.

Running workers ourselves was the last resort, we tried everything else but it was impossible to get fast (and consistent) build times otherwise.

In a way we are now going to get charged for Github's poor execution on Actions.

New comment by tbarbugli in "An illustrated guide to OAuth"

tbarbugli — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:13:42 +0000

> anyone can see what URLs you are visiting

this is not correct with HTTPS (query params are not part of the plain text)

New comment by tbarbugli in "Cerebras Code"

tbarbugli — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:56:58 +0000

ofc it depends where you would hire, for me (NL) its above 100x more efficient

New comment by tbarbugli in "Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch"

tbarbugli — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:49:25 +0000

I agree, only reason I read the project readme was to see the drop-in explainer.

Very misleading title

New comment by tbarbugli in "Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity"

tbarbugli — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:14:27 +0000

searching for running shoes returns a mix of brands and shoe models

New comment by tbarbugli in "Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months"

tbarbugli — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:07:10 +0000

Plenty of engineers on the market can work professionally in C. Only a small amount of people can write Cobol (or is willing to given that is almost useless). That alone is a good reason to consider Cobol a legacy language and throw away a codebase written in Cobol.

New comment by tbarbugli in "The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets"

tbarbugli — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:12:07 +0000

> At Compose, every WebSocket message starts with a fixed 2-byte type prefix for categorizing messages.

some of the complexity is self-inflected by ignoring KISS principle

New comment by tbarbugli in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)"

tbarbugli — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:48:18 +0000

In my experience, only Swift has a generator that produces good-quality code. Ironically, it’s developed by Apple.

New comment by tbarbugli in "Kvrocks: Redis-compatible distributed key value NoSQL database"

tbarbugli — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:37:00 +0000

The list of supported commands looks quite impressive https://kvrocks.apache.org/docs/supported-commands#script-co...

New comment by tbarbugli in "Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB (2023)"

tbarbugli — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:43:51 +0000

Using DynamoDB in 2025 is such a weird proposition. Horrible dev experience, no decent clients/libs, complex pricing, weird scaling in/out mechanism, slow, it only works well for well defined use-cases.

New comment by tbarbugli in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

tbarbugli — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:40:03 +0000

Google is not winning on cloud, AWS is winning and MS gaining ground.

New comment by tbarbugli in "How to use Postgres for everything"

tbarbugli — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 10:22:54 +0000

> Use Postgres for Fulltext Search instead of Elastic

pg fulltext search is very limited and user unfriendly, not a great suggestion here

New comment by tbarbugli in "AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database"

tbarbugli — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:51:49 +0000

Ideally it does not run on the awful EBS storage (slow and expensive).

New comment by tbarbugli in "WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill"

tbarbugli — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:57:21 +0000

Possibly because they capture the video from xvfb or similar (they run a headless browser to capture the video) so at that point the decoding already happened (webrtc?)

New comment by tbarbugli in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

tbarbugli — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:32:46 +0000

Makes you wonder why there were no plane hijacks since 9/11. TSA does not seem a credible prevention mechanism given how easy it is to go around it.

New comment by tbarbugli in "Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration"

tbarbugli — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:44:26 +0000

Nice article which matches my experience when it comes to optimizing for performance: Linux defaults are never good defaults and you don't need webscale or anything before you get bitten by them.

To make a few examples: on many distributions you get 1024 as the file limits, 4KB of shared memory (shmall) and Nagle's algorithm is enabled by default.

Another thing that we noticed at work (shameless plug to getstream.io) when it comes to tail latency for APIs / HTTP services:

- TLS over HTTP is annoyingly slow (too many roundtrips)

- Having edge nodes / POPs close to end-users greatly improves tail latency (and reduces latency related errors). This works incredibly well for simple relays (the "weak" link has lower latency)

- QUIC is awesome

New comment by tbarbugli in "CockroachDB license change"

tbarbugli — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:24:18 +0000

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/graphs/contributors

New comment by tbarbugli in "As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)"

tbarbugli — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:25:24 +0000

TL;DR it is a job

New comment by tbarbugli in "OpenAI and Microsoft Azure to deprecate GPT-4 32K"

tbarbugli — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:29:42 +0000

hosted on Vercel and Github...

New comment by tbarbugli in "40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent"

tbarbugli — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:43:41 +0000

isn't China producing more electricity with solar than all other countries combined (with solar)?