1. Comparing to something like GitPod (which lets you run on your own instances as well), where do you think Hocus shines?
2. Given you're leveraging Firecracker for isolation, and Firecracker doesn't support GPUs, I assume that adding GPU-enabled machines isn't on your near-term roadmap?
1. GitPod doesn't officially support self-hosting anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907897. When they did, it was extremely hard to set up. In fact we tried to do it at my previous company several times and failed. Hocus is designed with self-hosting in mind, and we want to make deployment and management straightforward. And from an end user's perspective there are 2 main advantages:
- Hocus dev envs are VMs instead of containers, so you can run anything you want inside. For example Kubernetes or nested KVM.
- Workspaces start in <5 seconds, while Gitpod can take a minute or longer.
2. Actually we are exploring moving to Cloud Hypervisor or QEMU, so we may support GPUs sooner than later. If you have a specific use case in mind, feel free to contact me - contact info is in my profile. I'd be happy to hear why you need them.
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We're a big Atlassian shop, and switched from Crucible to Bitbucket Server (then Stash). I do not get the sense that Crucible is the future as far as Atlassian is concerned - I believe they see Bitbucket Server as what they are going to focus on.
FWIW, with the latest releases, they've addressed most of the remaining features that were missing from Crucible, and I'm very happy now with the PR/code review flow in Bitbucket Server.
I agree; Bitbucket Server is a smash hit in big banks who are now moving away from SVN to GIT to stay relevant. It simply makes more sense to use BitBucket Server offering by Altassian given that most organizations already use Confluence for hosting their wiki.
I've been trying to figure this out from the docs, but how does it support Windows? In the sense that for now (until Server 2016 comes out), you don't really have "container support".
Concourse just talks to Garden, it's up to the Garden backend whether or not it actually does containerization. So on Windows it just does the world's worst containerization (cd'ing into a directory), though it at least guarantees that the processes all die.
Honest non-troll question: when you say high-performance, what's the measurement? I'm honestly curious what the right benchmark is for a DB like this, especially one that's doing a variety of spatial queries.
I'm specifically interested in how the measurement performs with a lot of writes constantly happening.
You bring up a good point. This is a subjective statement that I made. While I feel that it's a feature to have good performance, it's certainly something that should have a benchmark tool to back it up.
I'm going to generate some benchmarks and post in the coming days. Thanks a ton for the suggestion.
We were early adopters of the API, and we still use it to demo integration of Splunk with 3rd party dashboards.
The beauty of the API is that it allows you to display relatively arbitrary data in very compelling ways.
For example, we have access to quite a bit of data at Splunk, from Twitter, server logs, etc. A lot of our customers ask us how they can use the data that is inside Splunk and present it in a 3rd-party dashboard, so we built a demo with Leftronic.
I've been using Clipboard for a long time now, and know several people who built the site. It's an amazing team and they did an amazing job with it. It would be easy to be discouraged with hotness of Pinterest, but they're going at it from a different, very valuable direction.
i like what i see, unfortunately for me, i have so much data/notes on Evernote, and organised so well, that i'm locked in the product. for me swapping services right now would be a real nightmare
Upon actually using it, it's pretty much snip.it but even more difficult to read. I think Snip.it and Pinterest are not very well designed around their primary purpose - content - but posts that can span 900px high of illegible text is pretty bad, especially when you scroll a little bit more and it's just posted again by someone else.
For whatever reason, I just wrote another post about features and ways to distinguish this product from the competition in their other thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4049752).
I like snip.it's design and content fairly well, and it works quite simply. The only thing wrong with it right now is a relative lack of breadth of topics represented on the front page due to the proclivities of early adopters. That will improve in time.
In my opinion: you're clipping content + structure, and not just something like images/text. So you get to preserve the original layout, links, etc, which is a huge benefit.
You can also have things private and/or shared with a select group of people, which is what I usually do.
For example, a common use case I've found is that I'll clip something from Gilt/other signup required sites, to show someone a deal they might be interested in, but they don't want to sign up just to look at it. If they like it, they end up signing up.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Your clips can be private and shared with a few people (or none), or they can be completely public. In the example I gave, I wouldn't really mind if they were public, but I don't see a reason to make them public - it is just to share with a few friends, really.
I might have misunderstood the product. I assumed (though this would be tough), that when you took a snippet of a page, and say the page updated later on - the snippet would reflect the change.
You make it sound like the snippets are static caches of content.
Yes, that's my understanding as well. That's also what I want. I'm taking a snapshot in time of a page, so that I can then go back to that snapshot and look at it.
Sometimes those snapshots are not valuable after a while, so I delete them :)
1. Comparing to something like GitPod (which lets you run on your own instances as well), where do you think Hocus shines?
2. Given you're leveraging Firecracker for isolation, and Firecracker doesn't support GPUs, I assume that adding GPU-enabled machines isn't on your near-term roadmap?