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dizzyVik

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About dizzyVik

I sometimes blog at https://dizzy.zone/

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    https://dizzy.zone I've been on a bit of a hiatus as we've got a new human to look after, but I do blog here, and intend to blog there once I have the time available again.

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    Comment #45383405

    I don't think this is a fair assessment. Had my benchmarks shown, say, that postgres crumbled under heavy write load then the conclusion would be different. That's exactly why I de…

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    Comment #45383376

    I completely agree that this is not relevant for anyone running such workloads, the article is not aimed at them at all. Within the constraints of my setup, postgres came out slowe…

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    Comment #45383183

    I still end up recommending using postgres though, don't I?

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    1. No persistence for redis. 2. Redis would get OOM killed. 3. The default config coming with the image was used. 4. Yes, I gave it 2 cpus. I wanted to compare how would my http se…

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    Comment #45382549

    There's a reason this is on my blog and not a paper in a journal. This isn't supposed to show the absolute speed of either tool, the benchmark is not set up for that. I do state th…

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    Comment #45382436

    Not on my computer right now but I think it's 45 bytes per value

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    Author here. Redis is definitely faster. I was specifically not going for absolute peak performance for either redis or postgres - that would require going down to the wire protoco…

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    I've done a quick experiment with text embeddings on my blog, for recommended posts.

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    These both look like great tools. I'll give them a spin!

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    Calling all devs – BOUNTIES for building privacy applications

    Hey guys, I’m a dev @ MysteriumNetwork and we’ve just released our first ever developer bounties. We’re a distributed, permissionless privacy network at our core. We have grown a g…

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