Choosing the right database has three aspects: - Technical. - Administrative. - Human. Technical: Which DB is best suited for the type and amount of data I have and how I’m gonna use this data (how often read/write/ update). Administrative: What databases are supported in my organization. What databases align well with other infrastructure (server technology) commonly used in my organization. Human: Which DBA (or DBA team) do I trust to be there, quickly and efficiently, if I have a problem in prod on a weekend.

Bad companies sell products. Good companies sell usages. Great companies sell a relationship.

There is a difference between being worth a trillion dollars and having a trillion dollars on your bank account.

Why is LinkedIn sending me emails asking me to solve puzzles?

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Great solutions fix several problems at once. Bad solutions create more problems.

Modern security is about picking a big number and hoping no one can guess it.

Should we have status pages for status pages?

I only want to install packages where all the code has been reviewed by a human.

No one will blame AI if something goes wrong. They will always blame a human.

Good balance always wins. You can't ignore AI, and you can't fully rely on it.

Just because you can build this feature doesn't mean you should.

In production deployments of AI based products, determinism beats intelligence.

I really don't like animated menus where you need to wait before you can click.

I hope customer support will never be replaced by AI. When I have a problem, I want to hear a human voice.

Updated my resume for AI recruiters. What do you think?

We will never reach AGI. Because the definition of AGI will always change.

Local LLMs: - Free - Private - Can run on an entry-level MacBook

Best AI is invisible AI.

It's amazing what a tiny 7B parameters model can do. It's amazing that quantization can now reduce the model size by half with almost no loss in quality. The age of local AI has come.

Working on my Halloween costume. Is it scary enough?