tkyjonathan

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   The AWS Lambda 'Kiss of Death'(shatteredsilicon.net)

   4 points by tkyjonathan 5mo ago|1 comments
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   by tkyjonathan 5mo ago

   Misadventures in AWS Lambda, connection pooling and killing the database with unclosed transactions.
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   by tkyjonathan 6y ago

   Isn't this DataOps?
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   by tkyjonathan 6y ago

   Almost none of the company leaders or even VCs fully understand what AI even is or does. They just like to hear thats its there. If you don't have some AI in your company, you won't get investors.
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   by tkyjonathan 6y ago

   "Normalization was built for a world with very different assumptions. In the data centers of the 1980s, storage was at a premium and compute was relatively cheap." But forget to do normalisation and you will be paying 5 figures a
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   by tkyjonathan 6y ago

   Location: UK, Horsham Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Performance Engineering, Java, Python, SQL. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanl
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   by tkyjonathan 6y ago

   Location: West Sussex, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Data Architect, Data Modeling, Data Performance Engineer, SQL, MySQL, Percona, MariaDB, Galera, Postgres, Kafka, ElasticSearch, RDS, Redshift, Infobright, Java, Pyt
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   Ultraviolet light to disinfect against Coronavirus(youtube.com)

   7 points by tkyjonathan 7y ago|1 comments
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   by tkyjonathan 7y ago

   This is obvious to me. Since Hadoop came out, (a lot of) people have been giving up on even forming algorithms and just dumping data into machine learning and hoping for the best. I recall someone high up at Google complaining about it. We
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    I said this 3 years ago, the future is having an SQLite DB inside a container for each one of your customers. /s
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    If its minimum of 70k, then its probably a good idea, because you would only hire if you absolutely have to. 37signals would be proud. If you decentivize the most productive people, then you might hurt the rest of the company.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    I reduce my RDS bill by 66% by keeping it on EC2 and using Percona Server.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Batching is the multi-threadedness of databases. Its also important to remember that in databases, you are more often optimising for IO usage than CPU.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    That could be a fault of complex physical data models that need simplification.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    It is worth mentioning that there are some data-process heavy work that can be done much faster and more efficiently in SQL. Real life example for a regulatory batch job: 6 tomcat servers + 1 RDS. 30X lines of code + UTs in java. 30+ minute
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Imagine my shock. Asking for regulation simply to attack the competition or new entrants..
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    This is very impressive. The average lifespan of a company on the S&P 500 is 15 years.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    I'm still on pen and paper..
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    I feel that philosophy of systems and theory of constraints would be a better philosophy to use with computer systems.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    And a lot of those lakes remain untouched for years..
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Already started a DataOps team in my company!
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Where has this been since 2015?
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    This is going to be your next cloud agnostic data warehouse.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Not sure which DB you are using, but you can load the csv file into the DB directly on a single thread using something like LOAD DATA INFILE. If you have some good indexes and do some push-down work (give the database aggregation tasks to d
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Sysadmins could code scripts since day 1. Its not like they ran the backups at midnight manually.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    You can persuade them to invest in nuclear micro-reactors and hydro-electric.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    I was under the impression that parts of the ozone have been repairing..
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    > his massive short on the pound In 2016 or recently? because if its recently then the pound has gone up.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Think about having kids as like starting your own start up which you want to invest in for years to come and will very likely IPO with huge investment one day.
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    by tkyjonathan 7y ago

    Could you point out the graph that shows that wages haven't improved in the last 40 years?