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Docker pioneered but promptly lost control of containerization. I see the same happening to OpenAI / ChatGPT. “Eventually openai will be bought by Microsoft and that’ll be that.” “Cancer [cure] is 5% baking soda in water as revealed by Dr Simoncini (as ancient cure) before he was run aground…” “Data Center apocalypse in Northern Virginia … Read more
This is a classic numerical computation issue. The trade-offs are well documented in books like numerical recipes in c… particularly useful references are discussed in the chapters on and surrounding distribution sampling. Cold war error computation was highly constrained and inefficient so they had to solve many these problems to be able use them. Understanding … Read more
“OpenAI recently announced a new feature that turns ChatGPT into a personal shopping assistant. You ask for something, and it doesn’t just recommend it. It finds it, prices it, and even helps you check out all in one chat. …a New Kind of Online Shopping Experience — one where everything from product discovery and research … Read more
Eclipsing from hodge-podge 2-base-10 and “sneaker net”, we built a complex multi-office routed network based primarily upon Linux but also hosting Lotus Notes servers and Windows NT4 servers in the full-blown Microsoft configuration with numerous Windows 95 workstations at several locations. (OS/2 was later tested, and Novell Netware held some legacy ground for years, but … Read more
80% speed gain via Pre-Aggregated subsets vs MongoDB (which gains on bloat) On PostgreSQL https://medium.com/@kanishks772/we-cut-80-of-our-query-time-by-using-this-little-known-sql-pattern-fadec2bdb592 Compare against MongoDB To precisely compare real-world speed between PostgreSQL pre-aggregation using CTEs vs MongoDB aggregation pipelines — Below is a detailed side-by-side analysis — MongoDB 10% slower with smaller datasets — But MongoDB speed advantage increases with increasing datasets … Read more
Best Practices – Mongo Speed vs Distant WAN Yes — MongoDB replica sets across WANs can significantly impact performance, especially for read and write operations that wait on acknowledgments or are sensitive to replication lag. Here’s how to speed up your MongoDB replica set: Best Practices: 1. Yes, remove distant secondaries if: 2. Use readPreference: … Read more
Benchmarks of Docker vs BareMetal Note concern over mounted data volumes for Mongo Here are real-world performance comparison examples of MongoDB running on bare-metal vs Docker, using benchmarks and reports from known tests or developer observations: 1. Percona Benchmarks (2018–2020) Setup: MongoDB 4.x tested using YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark) and sysbench on identical hardware. … Read more
NetSuite Internals – The 3 Main Tables Transactions, Items, Entities NetSuite Internals: Deep Dive into the Three Core Tables NetSuite’s data structure revolves around three primary categories of tables: These tables do not exist as single physical tables but are logical groupings of multiple interconnected tables. Let’s explore each area in depth. 1️⃣ Entities (Customers, … Read more