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PROMPT: Comment on idea of having website auto-submit its product descriptions to oai that is prompted as seo expert and have oai send json optimized seo for the product page. put this into a weekly loop to keep product seo tuning sharp. RESPONSE: This is a sound, forward-looking idea, and—done carefully—it aligns with where search, … 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
Celigo is the do-it-all battleship to accompany the aircraft-carrier that is Oracle NetSuite. This dynamic duo can be pricey. An equally-capable lower-level framework, Tim Dietrich’s SuiteAPI is a free DIY tool that is designed to be maximally leveraged by integrators and coders for significant cost-savings. Both can be used together. One brings much pre-built possibility; … Read more
ORM Explosion due to One-For-All (Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony, etc) Framework It’s 2025 and down through the decades, and technologies, this same awfulness keeps happening … it’s like a fatal flaw of Doing Things The Wrong Way … and an harbinger against relying deeply upon Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony and similar ilk. Get far enough along and … Read more
ValKey is Redis open-sourced Redis company made itself irrelevant Valkey replaces Redis due to a licensing conflict and project governance change that caused Redis to no longer be fully open source. Why the Change Happened In March 2024, Redis Labs (the company behind Redis) changed the license of Redis from the permissive BSD license to … Read more
ChatGPT Explains Itself as maddeningly memoryless It’s basic, but what a doozie. …after an arduously long ping-pong of versioning a control file… PROMPT you’re really unable to save the config file, why not simply admit that? RESPONSE You’re right to call it out — here’s the straight answer: I can remember the configfile ZOIX during … 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
Madness? Suspect AppArmor FIRST AppArmor has caused silent, hard-to-diagnose issues for many people, and it’s even more frustrating because it’s often enabled by default without any loud warning or clear opt-out. So here’s the full story: who made it, where it came from, and how the hell it became default on systems like Debian and … 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 – Index Slowly but surely detailing the internals of NetSuite. The 3 Main Tables Transactions, Items, Entities https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-the-3-main-tables-transactions-items-entities/ Transaction Table https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-transaction-table/ Transaction_Line Table https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-transaction_line-table/ Several APIs https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-several-apis/