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pythian.com
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pythian.com is the company blog at pythian.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “What is bad about virtual CPUs with Amazon Web Services”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pythian's blog for database and cloud material: DBA checklists, Oracle install guides, and benchmarks of cloud instances and managed SQL services such as Google Cloud SQL.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Close the gap between AI investment and business value. Pythian delivers strategy, modernization, and managed services that turn data, analytics, and AI into real-world results.
Most-linked posts?
- What is bad about virtual CPUs with Amazon Web Services3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
- How to Run OpenTSDB on Google Cloud Bigtable2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-14
What Hacker News says?
Doesn't AWS (and every big cloud/enterprise) follow best-practices for production operation like FIT-ACER? https://pythian.com/uncategorized/fit-acer-dba-checklist/ That's even more surprising to me.
Comment linking /uncategorized/fit-acer-dba-checklist/
on “Google outage – resolved”Submitted Read this before submitting a conference proposal (2010) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHe only made 300m. Us other MySQL employees (about 250) shared crumbs for that purchase (VPs excepted). He screwed us, but he never had respect for us - "people are lazy and greedy" ( https://www.pythian.com/blog/mysql-ceo-marten-mickos-intervi... ) . Then he promised he would fix the mistake he made with Maria by being more generous. Ha.
Comment linking /blog/mysql-ceo-marten-mickos-interviewed/
on “Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB”Submitted How to Run OpenTSDB on Google Cloud Bigtable as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm not saying that you wouldn't see any performance gain. 2TB on the outer track will be faster than 8TBs on the same 8TB disk, but I'm saying any gains will be lost due the dense nature of the drives. A quick google search shows that there are marginal gains on the outer track vs the inner, but that is only on sequential workloads. For something like GitLab, the workloads would be anything but. http://superuser.co…
Comment linking /blog/hard-drive-inner-or-outer/
on “Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com”Submitted What is bad about virtual CPUs with Amazon Web Services as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am still trying to push, pull or twist my concept of an ultralow-power mcu that runs 14.4MHz (or at nearly 14mA drain, 32MHz) in order to have it not only perform its optimal max of 1 I/O per cycle but do a simultaneous random read and write. Values are 1kb and keys 16 bytes, though... (As opposed to using the 1000 Amazon vCPUs each ~1.0 Xeon core with 4 hyperthreads (see http://www.pythian.com/blog/virtual-cpus-w…
Comment linking /blog/virtual-cpus-with-amazon-web-services/
on “Databases at 14.4Mhz”Submitted No SQL overview - written by and for DBAs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm on SL and I also depend on Oracle 10g, so thanks for the note on the Seg Fault, that would be showstopper moving to Lion. Now, I get the ulimit error on SL too, that's just that your "oracle" user is not authorized to set ulimit that high (it's in your oracle ~/.bashrc). You probably followed the installation instructions from Pythian ( http://www.pythian.com/news/1937/quick-install-guide-for-ora... ), just like…
Comment linking /news/1937/quick-install-guide-for-oracle-10g-release-2-on-mac-os-x-leopard-intel/
on “OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store”Submitted How to Run OpenTSDB with Google Bigtable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJust a side note. After some benchmarking, I recently discovered that c3.2xlarge does not actually have 8 cores, rather it had 4 real cores = 8 hyper threaded cores. I was very surprised by this and suspect most other AWS users would also be surprised. This is not to say that AWS is a bad deal, but I think Amazon could be a little more transparent about it. See http://www.pythian.com/blog/virtual-cpus-with-amazon-we…
Comment linking /blog/virtual-cpus-with-amazon-web-services/
on “How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?”Submitted Instant REST API For Any Database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI feel like I need to note the pricing. $0.01 per 1,000 queries. That doesn't sound like much, but it adds up. Let's say you make 1,000/sec. $0.01 * 60 seconds in a minute * 60 minutes in an hour * 24 hours in a day * 30 days in a month = $25,920. Is that a lot? I think it is. Google Cloud Spanner costs $0.90/hour per node or around $650/mo. Each Cloud Spanner node can do around 10,000 queries per second[1]. So, $65…
Comment linking /blog/benchmarking-google-cloud-sql-instances/
on “Show HN: FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database”Submitted Why is a Database like your Mother? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot exactly a startup (but less than 100 employees), but the company I work for is hiring sysadmins (both internal and as consultants for remote work). We are taking H-1B candidates and I'd love to stop being the only H-1B employee in the company :) We are also looking for DBAs: Oracle, MySQL and even SQL-Server. You can read my blog post about my experience with the company: http://www.pythian.com/news/16887/learni…
Comment linking /news/16887/learning-on-the-job-some-thoughts-from-mots/
on “Ask HN: Who's hiring (for H-1B)? | Dec 2010”Submitted No Silver Bullet – Sharding and MongoDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere some benchmarks at http://www.pythian.com/blog/benchmarking-google-cloud-sql-in... but only comparing the different instance sizes, and to the first generation, which is much slower. It's good there's finally a decent managed SQL option on the Google cloud.
Comment linking /blog/benchmarking-google-cloud-sql-instances/
on “Next generation of Google Cloud SQL”Submitted Thoughts on the Cloud as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Liveblogging: A Five-Step Framework for Achieving the Strategic Value of Cloud Computing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is an “unauthenticated user”? as a story · 1 points
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