Hacker News: tobias_irmer

New comment by tobias_irmer in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

tobias_irmer — Mon, 12 May 2025 10:29:06 +0000

To me that still sounds like forever.

New comment by tobias_irmer in "First images from Euclid are in"

tobias_irmer — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:34:02 +0000

I couldn't have put it any better.

New comment by tobias_irmer in "We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime"

tobias_irmer — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:00:49 +0000

It isn't? AWS is crazy expensive and you don't have as much control over things as you may occasionally need. The best decision we took in the past few years with regards to infrastructure was moving away from AWS and doing everything ourselves.

On RDS we had inexplicable spikes in cost, deteriorating support and no real support for any of our issues. When we tried using DMS, it just didn't work as expected, even after spending two days on the phone with their support.

New comment by tobias_irmer in "Titled Tuesday Cheating"

tobias_irmer — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 06:56:14 +0000

Where exactly is "Zürich, Switherland"?

New comment by tobias_irmer in "Ableton Push 3"

tobias_irmer — Tue, 23 May 2023 09:29:42 +0000

Sounds terrible in the video. If that is the best it can do... :(

New comment by tobias_irmer in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

tobias_irmer — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:49:36 +0000

Take a look at kubeone. We are fairly happy running production loads on K8s distributed across Hetzner DCs...

New comment by tobias_irmer in "Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape"

tobias_irmer — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:55:37 +0000

I haven't used that, yet. But this has me confused:

"An automatically updatable view may contain a mix of updatable and non-updatable columns. A column is updatable if it is a simple reference to an updatable column of the underlying base relation; otherwise the column is read-only, and an error will be raised if an INSERT or UPDATE statement attempts to assign a value to it."

Isn't splitting full_name into two columns a complex reference (for lack of a better word)?

New comment by tobias_irmer in "Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape"

tobias_irmer — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:42:12 +0000

How do INSERTs work if you are migrating from `full_name` to `first_name` - `last_name`?

New comment by tobias_irmer in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)"

tobias_irmer — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:35:42 +0000

Mercury Media Technology | Hamburg, Germany | mostly REMOTE with occasional MANDATORY ONSITE | Full-time

Elixir, Phoenix, Elm, (RubyOnRails)

Hiring - Full-stack engineers - Data engineers - Kubernetes engineer - Data scientist

We specialize in - SaaS solutions for the advertising industry - data intelligence solutions

International team, English is a requirement, German is not.

https://www.mercurymediatechnology.com/en/career/