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Nikita Melkozerov
Personal blog · nikita.melkozerov.dev/postsaidata
Nikita Melkozerov's personal blog at nikita.melkozerov.dev covers ai and data. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Image Classification from scratch without a PhD”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for practical guidance on setting up FoundationDB processes, including a 2019 post on building a FoundationDB cluster. Discussion in the thread centres on FoundationDB performance and ACID behaviour.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Image Classification from scratch without a PhD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-08
What Hacker News says?
From own experience, I'd say FDB can handle it all, we've got 20% read 80 write during peak hours, and reverse: 80 read 20 write other time. Without doing your own tests, here's per core numbers, from which you can extrapolate (e.g. via CPU mips) towards your own hardware: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/performance.html#throug... FDB is ACID as is shipped, you don't need to turn knobs to make it such. Toughest…
Comment linking /posts/2019/06/building-a-foundationdb-cluster-roles-classes-and-processes/
on “FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]”Submitted Image Classification from scratch without a PhD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThese two resources helped me a lot in understanding how to setup FoundationDB processes correctly: https://nikita.melkozerov.dev/posts/2019/06/building-a-found... https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/roles-classes-matrix/1340/...
Comment linking /posts/2019/06/building-a-foundationdb-cluster-roles-classes-and-processes/
on “FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store”Submitted Image Classification from scratch without a PhD as a story · 1 points
HN discussion