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Examine your own work honestly. Which job are you doing? If everything you contributed last quarter could be described as construction, start climbing. Learn the bearing loads. Learn the customer. Learn why the light should come from the east. Develop an opinion about what is beautiful and be ready to defend it. The tools are sitting right there and they have never been cheaper.
He was very tall in a way that seemed apologetic, as if he had been issued the height by mistake and was still trying to give it back. He had a laugh he did not perform. When the moderator asked a genuinely stupid question, Dorian Vale did not smirk at the audience the way the other panelists did. He answered it seriously, and well, and the questioner sat down looking …
The engineers (myself included) stood on the rooftops and shouted, "People! My dear sheep of the earth, please let me save you from yourselves! Do not buy what the shiny man with the seductive words is selling!"
AI as used by an experienced person with domain knowledge is like having another 5 experienced people doing exactly what you need them to do with minimal intervention.
18TB backup just stopped. We fixed it through depth of knowledge.
Classic and untrue. It isn’t the DBAs that are the issue. It is the developers and their ego which is driven by the unrealistic expectations of the C-suite that is driven by the ridiculous assertions of the investors that drives this problem. DBAs may be an acquired taste but we are the ones that are constantly cleaning up after the developers who could never learn more than the ORM and …
An interesting micro optimization for pg_dump is coming in PostgreSQL 18.
We have seen a shift from the pandemic era work from home mandates to a new back to normal mandate of return to the office. This has caused a lot of frustration from workers. Much of the frustration is valid. Workers feel as if they can do their job more effectively if they work from home and that it provides better flexibility for managing non-work related responsibilities. There have been …
We like to say, “This season too will pass”, “Give it to God”, “My therapist and I are working on it”, and “I will be able to get to that if only…” The reality is many of us are focused on the wrong things. We are so focused on externalities in society that it never occurs to us that we are ignoring the very things that are important for success …
PgManage 1.0 released, grab it today!