Unfortunately, cancelling MAU today. @waynesutton is off riding motorcycles and @Rasmic is under the weather.
I could just rant into a hot mic for 55 minutes but let's be real, no one wants that.
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Jamie Turner
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Co-founder/CEO of @convex. Former Sr. Director/Principal Engineer of Storage & Databases at Dropbox. Shameless startup junkie.
Seattle, WA, USA Beigetreten Nisan 2009
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🦞 I’m now an OpenClaw maintainer
⚡ I work at Convex
So naturally I scaled ClawHub to support 1M WAU.
The future is crustacean-powered and runs on the best backend in the world.
Here’s how:
stack.convex.dev/optimizing-ope…
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this decade belongs to the earnestmaxxers
Jamie Turner@jamwt
Convex is a metamodern company. Yes everything isn’t perfect. Cynicism is boring. We’re gonna go ahead and fucking try anyway.
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Jamie Turner retweetet
Convex is a metamodern company.
Yes everything isn’t perfect. Cynicism is boring. We’re gonna go ahead and fucking try anyway.
Paul Anleitner@PaulAnleitner
If you see Project Hail Mary this weekend, I hope you'll remember how I told you over 3 years ago that stuff like this was going to explode in pop culture. -From ironic cynicism to post-ironic sincerity. -Embracing the "cringe" & the celebration of the earnest "try-hard." -From deconstructing the past, to a nostalgia for some positive "vibe" we lost in the deconstruction. -The rejection of Fight Club-era nihilism. -The ability to stare at the apocalypse in front of you and be hopeful instead of a "doomer."
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If you see Project Hail Mary this weekend, I hope you'll remember how I told you over 3 years ago that stuff like this was going to explode in pop culture.
-From ironic cynicism to post-ironic sincerity.
-Embracing the "cringe" & the celebration of the earnest "try-hard."
-From deconstructing the past, to a nostalgia for some positive "vibe" we lost in the deconstruction.
-The rejection of Fight Club-era nihilism.
-The ability to stare at the apocalypse in front of you and be hopeful instead of a "doomer."
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@thdxr I still don’t know who is and isn’t and boomer and if i am
Will AI fix that
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Why is it everyone with an absurdly futuristic AI take is someone who - as best I can tell - doesn’t work on (and often never has) real software that has real users and real requirements?
More so, why do you trust them?
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No matter how bad your day is going, feel good you didn't dump $80b in an experiment that didn't pan out. Might make you feel a little better.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
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@jamwt Exactly what I was thinking when I saw this. Like seriously, only 64 connections?
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It is so so embarrassing that mainstream databases still need this.
MySQL had some kinda epoll layer for awhile to park idle connections but I dunno if it ever went anywhere.
The transaction-over-network model isn’t helping this situation either.
Ben Dicken@BenjDicken
This is why you avoid direct connections to Postgres. Benchmarked PG running on a r8g.2xlarge (8 vCPU + 64GB ram) with connections ranging from 8 → 2048. Clearly a sweet spot at 64 with degrading perf thereafter. Apps often need 1000s of connections. Scale with a proxy!
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@barre_of_lube Aka if an area the radius of a region is permanently lost, top story on the news will not be “petstore.ai lost 14 seconds of chew toy orders today…”
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@barre_of_lube Cross AZ -> semi synchronous replication. Data loss not okay.
Cross region async. Can’t hide latency. Semi sync Introduce massive complexity to hide. Probability of disaster appropriate for bound-window data loss.
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@AdamRackis This wouldn’t be as scary if it was good to begin with.
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There's so many small details AI gets horribly wrong
Median software quality is gonna drop so hard next few years
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@antho1404 @convex This data is in log streams, but admittedly that is a pro feature.
You can also find it in the dashboard if your click on any function call log entry there.
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I love @convex, great DX, great product but man it doesn't allow for any mistakes in architecture.
One mistake on one app in dev + staging and all your usage is gone in a day. This is hard, problem solved but now I'm out of usage and might have to pay for the dev mode...
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one thing to appreciate during hype cycles is it is very easy to spot people worth developing relationships with
there's people building in the ai space that are ruthlessly honest and care about being right in the end, not just momentarily
they stand out among the craziness
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when a new model drops:
-> suddenly the previous model is trash
-> this is insane, we might actually be close to agi
2 weeks later:
-> it's worse than the previous model
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@stefan_marsc @PDiTO @waynesutton @convex @theo Wanna dm me and we can talk it out? Easier on a call.
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@jamwt @PDiTO @waynesutton @convex @theo Are these some that can be fixed or did I oversee something’s? Would honestly prefer to stay with Convex, also send sales team a form message few months ago with question regarding plan for higher limits but never any answer as well. At least AI writing back would’ve been nice 😄
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@barre_of_lube I think the spanner model is incredibly clever but the wrong tradeoff for most apps.
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@BenjDicken That knee in the curve at 64 connections is super common with Postgres - it's tied to how many backend processes can efficiently share CPU cores. pgbouncer in transaction pooling mode can handle 5000+ connections while maintaining only ~32 actual DB connections.
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This is why you avoid direct connections to Postgres.
Benchmarked PG running on a r8g.2xlarge (8 vCPU + 64GB ram) with connections ranging from 8 → 2048. Clearly a sweet spot at 64 with degrading perf thereafter.
Apps often need 1000s of connections. Scale with a proxy!
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