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i have trouble falling asleep sometimes because im daydreaming about how to set up the replacement. i might start crowdfunding it soon.
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It's a shame Lowtax isn't around anymore to give you advice on this kind of thing.
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I don't know if its been caused by kiwiflare but you cant reset your password at login anymore, there is no CAPTCHA to load. I assume that the email servers are up, and its just a leftover from when there was an hCaptcha there.
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The foresight is probably as good as, "they are using this tech it will fail at some point under load", but I'll be waiting for the I told you so's.
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Everyone who worked with Galera knows that it can be kinda fucky sometimes, especially if applications are hammering the database and not realising they are writing to a cluster. Elliot just wrote something super ultra obvious on his Twitter, which I think Jersh was already fully aware of (but didn't have any real other short-term solutions), to claim victory every time this site has a couple of database issues.View attachment 4626458Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) on Twitter: "OMFG "They've upped the attack to s…
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The foresight is probably as good as, "they are using this tech it will fail at some point under load", but I'll be waiting for the I told you so's.
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yeah, this. it's not ideal to distribute a database over 3 continents. It's done as a matter of last restort.
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If I had any forum skills at all I'd post a pic of Null's avatar standing on it's rear legs about now.
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The foresight is probably as good as, "they are using this tech it will fail at some point under load", but I'll be waiting for the I told you so's.
Notice how there’s no solution given, yet plenty of gloating over making observations that are painfully obvious once all the technobabble is removed:
Active-active MySQL, R=3 full replication, multi leader configuration, replication traffic and overhead:
- Meaning:
Multiple instances working on the same information, as equals. - Problem:
Instances have to communicate with each other a lot to keep on the same page and not interfere with each other’s work, and when they disagree, they fight. - Conclusion:
Poor performance, sometimes things lock up.
Shard horizontally with Vitess and fail:
- Meaning:
Put each instance in charge of a separate section of data. - Problem:
Software has to know who is in charge of what.
Data has to structured so instances can work independently without involving everyone else. - Conclusion:
Entire software system has to be designed, or rewritten to work with the plan.
RDS Aurora:
- Meaning:
1 master instance handles the writes, then mirrors a copy out to slave instances to handle reads - Problem:
Still 1 instance getting all the writes, still a communication delay between master and slave, but at least the slaves won’t fight with the master. - Conclusion:
“even RDS Aurora doesn’t do that” is a pointless observation, since it’s a different system suited for a different problem (heavy reads, low writes).
It’s a broad oversimplification, but getting multiple parties to modify the same set of data without stepping over each other, especially when communication is slow, is a logistical problem anyone can understand, with each workaround having their own well understood compromises.
At least the last tweet is right. Pointing out the issues with the chosen solution, then talking about other even more ill-suited solutions while offering no real answer, then going on to brag about being able give “technical advice” and somehow think it will be ignored because of spite is “comedy gold”.
Then again, trying to pass of an illusion of a solution as an actual solution while using buzzwords to conceal their compromises and inadequacies sounds awfully familiar…
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Multi-site replication is hard. Doing multi-master replication without the application being aware is really hard. Doing it with software like XenForo that barely works in the first place is even harder. Josh really is doing a pretty good job keeping this house of cards running until he re-writes it all.
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I just came back to the forum after taking a long break after the whole Keffals Cloudlfare thing in August. I noticed a potential glitch today after logging back on and this seems like the place to post about it. It has to do with the ratings system:
In this screenshot I took, certain ratings such as Achievement, Semper Fi, Deviant and Drink! are all accessible to me, even though they shouldn't be. I'm pretty sure Achievement is only for mods and the ones like Semper Fi and Deviant are for donors. I am neither of these so I am going to assume this is a glitch. Hopefully this helps a bit.
In this screenshot I took, certain ratings such as Achievement, Semper Fi, Deviant and Drink! are all accessible to me, even though they shouldn't be. I'm pretty sure Achievement is only for mods and the ones like Semper Fi and Deviant are for donors. I am neither of these so I am going to assume this is a glitch. Hopefully this helps a bit.
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Drafts do not seem to be autosaving. It remembers the attachments, but not the text. Actually even if i hit save draft it refuses to remember the text.
It seems to do its first save and then refuses to update that save. The two recap posts I lost had both info from the first draft save in them even after hitting save draft again.
It seems to do its first save and then refuses to update that save. The two recap posts I lost had both info from the first draft save in them even after hitting save draft again.
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If I see one more unexpected database error, I will be very annoyed.
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Pretty much every second page. Refreshing usually fixes it.
TOR through Brave.
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I'm finding the site alternates between periods of doing this and periods of it running completely fine.
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I have seen the database error multiple times. I am super ultra mega turbo annoyed.
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