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Flighty was recommended to me by a flight attendant and I also have been notified hours ahead of the airlines by it.

NetApp StorageGRID uses Cassandra according to their docs. "Three copies of object metadata are automatically maintained at each site to provide redundancy and protect object metad…

This was required reading for an engineering management course and is one of the few texts that I find myself thinking back on many years later. I strongly second this recommendati…

The NYC blizzard of 1888 had a large impact on the city's decision to build subways which started construction in 1900. https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Blizzard_of_1888;_the_Imp…

The title seems like a reference to the 2003 Outkast song Hey Ya! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw Alright alright alright!

I completely agree that breakfast at conferences has been a fantastic opportunity to meet fellow attendees. Conversation is quite easy to strike up by asking which talks the table …

The newer winterfell nodes [1] have made their way to ebay at sub 100$ and do not have the exotic power requirements of the earlier dual sled windmill nodes. You can easily power t…

I have been very happy with my Folgertech Prusa https://folgertech.com

In a follow up blog post https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p... Cloudflare released the following image https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2018/03/…

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Using a tool like diskplorer (mentioned in article 1) to gather the concurrency and IOPS relations at various read sizes (mentioned in article 2) seems like it a good datapoint for…

As long as you turn a PG table into a BQ dataset with enough partitions (BQ tables) such that queries do not touch a disproportionate amount of unnecessary data, you utilize date p…

If the rebalancer leverages an update from PostgreSQL 10 does that mean new Citus formations are now PG10 based?

Looking through the public Grafana dashboards I noticed that the database backups page is not showing any data points ( http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/backups ). Is this me…