Jeff Kao@j_ckao

Building things at @RadarLabs

 Brooklyn
jeffkao.ca
Joined August 2011
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Feels good when network and load balancers saturate before your software does. ♥️ Rust.
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Matthias@matthiasendler
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Radar replaced their Elasticsearch/MongoDB-based geospatial search backend with a single Rust binary. Here's their story: corrode.dev/podcast/s05e08-r… Thanks to @j_ckao for the interview! #rustlang #rust #rustinproduction

Radar with Jeff Kao - Rust in Production Podcast | corrode Rust Consulting

Radar processes billions of location events daily, powering geofencing and location APIs for companies like Uber, Lyft, and thousands of other apps. When their existing infrastructure started hitting...

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Excited to share HorizonDB - a Rust-based forward & reverse geocoder I built at Radar. 🚀 ~20k QPS steady state ⚡ Replaced multiple Elasticsearch & MongoDB instances 💡 Now a single Rust binary that’s faster, simpler, & cheaper radar.com/blog/high-performa…

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

Radar offers geocoding, place search, and fraud detection APIs, powered by HorizonDB, a Rust-based engine delivering 20k QPS and sub-millisecond latency.

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For a search company, Gmail is _really_ bad at search.
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Hermeto Pascoal performing with a group of musicians in a lake in Iporanga, São Paulo in 1985.
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this was officially two years ago!! when 300+ of Taiwanese people legally changed their name to the word “salmon” to get free sushi
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Do people still listen to entire albums anymore?
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Trough of sorrow
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Radar
@radarlabs
14 Sep 2022
To manage our new multi-region infrastructure, Radar's engineering team Terraforms its environment using TypeScript. Radar Engineer @j_ckao breaks down why and how we did it. cc @HashiCorp bit.ly/3qB21Ft
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How did we ever get into the enterprise bloat state of an 8GB mem @duckdb instance running laps around a 12 * 64 GB mem node @ApacheSpark cluster?
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Halogenix@Halogenix
5 Jul 2022
"can we have a premaster" sure.
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Free the Canadian postal codes!
BBC Maida Vale is back! Which means more sessions are on their way... which artists would you like to hear live from the studio? let me know on here or on Whatsapp at 0 3 700 100 600
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Infrastructure / data tooling has been following this cycle: 1. Declarative specs (HCL, SQL) 2. #1 lacks expression. Use a "real" programming language (Airflow, CDKTF, Spark) 3. Number 2 is a mess I think we want a mostly declarative design with an imperative escape hatch.
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Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan
18 Apr 2022
Ben Thompson agrees that Musk can unlock Twitter potential. How? Split company in two: ◻️ One company would be the core Twitter service, including the social graph (TwitterServiceCo) ◻️ The other would be all of the Twitter apps and the advertising business (TwitterAppCo)
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come at us
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Yishan
@yishan
15 Apr 2022
I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)
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