Pin-Sho Feng ps-feng

Rust/Haskell: Higher-Kinded Types (HKT)

A higher kinded type is a concept that reifies a type constructor as an actual type.

A type constructor can be thought of in these analogies:

like a function in the type universe
as a type with a "hole" in it

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

	Producer

	Setup
	bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --create --topic test-rep-one --partitions 6 --replication-factor 1
	bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --create --topic test --partitions 6 --replication-factor 3

	Single thread, no replication

	bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test7 50000000 100 -1 acks=1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=8196