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DeepThought AI is a satirical Python library that gives your humble 'if' statements an absurd AI upgrade. It transforms simple boolean logic into an over-engineered, GPU-hungry dec…

I always recommend Airalo to collegues. I travel a reasonable amount and Airalo has been reliable for me and available in a lot of countries. Last year they didn't have Singapore (…

Grafana Labs employee here => On the linked articles: I'm not aware of any caching being used in the writing data to S3 part of the pipeline other then some time based/volume based…

lol. clearly a ChatGPT answer

+1 Loki is designed for object storage as backend. Persisting all data (so not storage tiering) on object storage vs local storage gives you cost savings, increased durability and …

That's incorrect, Loki is designed for querying high cardinality data. The difference is that in Loki the index is only used for metadata around the source of the log lines (enviro…

Unfortunately it's severely misunderstood in the benchmark how Grafana Loki should be queried for high cardinality data. See also https://github.com/SigNoz/logs-benchmark/issues/1

SAP Concur is a complete nightmare for managing expenses. It's so bad that it will ruin your entire weekend, leaving you feeling frustrated and drained. The interface is a convolut…

besides the short network outage a few weeks ago it has been rock solid for me in the CA datacenter

I'm with OVH because of their NA presence (Canada). Prefer dedicated servers because of the bang for the buck. Hopefully that's in Hetzner's roadmap too

The not-indexing the log lines in Loki doesn't mean you can run complex queries on Loki. I've made a video to explain this concept: https://youtu.be/UiiZ463lcVA

Out of Order support is available in Loki's main branch and included in the next release. It's already live in production on Grafana Cloud. https://grafana.com/blog/2021/09/16/avoi…

This description is too funny :) It does have a high amount of old man screaming at the cloud. You can have a lot of valid critical views of cryptocurrency (environmental impact / …

Good products, but don't discount their go-to-market strategy. IIRC MS/Azure is an early Databricks investor and their sales folks were heavily incentivised to sell it. They also p…

Competing with Amazon/Google/Microsoft on their own cloud is...ehm...good luck with that indeed. I believe they should have partnered with them early on (real partnership, like a p…

Worked at Hortonworks and post merger Cloudera. Was interesting to see how market demand changed over the years and how the company worked on re-inventing themselves. Databricks an…

There is a known issue with building Erlang/OTP R24 on MacOS. Check this gist for current workarounds: https://gist.github.com/jj1bdx/972ba8da566f7e2eb1ff209fe4865... This will be …

Joe's original rant can be found here: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_suck... I can see that Erlang and Joe's (RIP) insights about OO might conflict with y…