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I suggest just flagging it, as I did, it'll be off the front page soon enough.



How can I do that? Rarely comment/moderate stuff in hacker news


You need more upvotes in your account probably. And then it will show up.


I think you need 30 karma before you can flag submissions or comments.


I encourage you to act in how you see is best fit for the HN community. My two counter arguments would be:

(1) How many people on HN do you think are aware that they can get a huge performance boost by using an embedded cache rather than just relying on Redis or others? Personally I think there is merit to this point alone, most people overlook it.

(2) I linked to Redis' performance page, and even with pipelining turned on they are doing 0.5M reads/sec while gun (on the exact same type of test) is doing 25M ~ 30M on the same device (MacBook Air). So "50X" is a claim that can be backed by evidence, not link bait. If it is shocking to anybody, then that is actually why we need to talk about (1) more, to get the word/discussion out.


Look, the title was 100% click bait. The word Redis didn't even exist on the page linked. It deserved to get kicked off, as it was (certainly it wasn't just my flag that did it).

It's not a comment on your technology, architecture or approach.

But you're not sketching out a clear, 2 minute overview of what your approach is, with the pros and cons, and intended use cases. You're just throwing around random synthetic numbers, and apples to oranges comparisons. It's handwaving.


> The word Redis didn't even exist on the page linked

really?

"Compare to Redis at 0.5M ops/sec (cached reads, Macbook Air), even with pipeline optimizations turned on, here: https://redis.io/topics/benchmarks"


The title and content have been updated since I made these posts. The old headline was clickbait claiming the technology was 50x faster than Redis with no justification or analysis on the linked page.


Could you please explain yourself more? I tried to address these points earlier but I must have done a bad job at communicating, I apologize. Here:

(A) There is a 2 minute summary at the bottom of the page, with the pro/cons/dangers of benchmarking. But that doesn't mean benchmarking should be ignored, it is a legitimate science.

(B) My previous comment's (2) addressed the apples/orange, it would be nice if you could explain why it is handwaving when I tried preempt that directly (to which you ignored?).

(C) There is a fair question in my previous comment's (1), which you also didn't address - would you mind answering it?

I love having conversations with people. It would be easier for me to understand what you are trying to say, though, without being accused (ad-hominem) of being handwaving. Thanks, I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Cheers!




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