Building Horizondb in Production
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The post discusses building HorizonDB in production at Radar, handling a billion API requests per day, and the HN community responds with admiration for Radar's technical achievements and talent.
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I know that Tim (the CTO) often posts in Who's Hiring threads here - ie https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803442
If you're considering joining a NYC-based startup that works in Rust and TS on hard and fun problems, you should more than consider them. And I am 100% not getting a referral fee to say this haha
P.S. Also may this serve as my public record of appreciation for Binh (the blog author of this piece), a friend and now ex-colleague who I (#humblebrag) originally invited to come to Radar. We originally met at the Recurse Center, another fine NYC-based institution! Binh's a superb and deeply smart fellow who fit right in at Radar. Binh, you rock!!! x
The skewed street number distribution / Tantivy example in this blog post was the issue we had spent a lunch++ spitballing ideas around. Had to keep it concise for the blog post, but there were a few different fun ways we tried to resolve that and it was super helpful to have your thoughts at the time. xoxo
And definitely shout out Recurse Center!
I am also available to do this for anyone, email in bio!