I was just reading Oliver Eidel’s blog. He had a great post, with some provocative ideas. Pioneers versus Process people. Now since I love to play devil’s advocate, after reading this thought-provoking article, I thought I would write a bit of my take. Are Pioneers and Process Really Characteristics Of Two Different People? As Oliver describes…
I was having a conversation with a colleague recently. We were discussing DevOps, and the topic of Ansible came up as I was advocating it as a great tool to get things done. Here’s what he had to say…“I’ve tried using Ansible a few times and this is what I found with it. It is…
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing about Brooklyn real estate for a while. This week I decided to give it a whirl. Back in 2011, I had a crazy idea. I wondered if it was possible to sell the loft I owned in Manhattan and trade up that equity for a townhouse in…
This article is from 2006. MySQL has come a long way since then. MySQL 5.5 is very robust and feature-rich, matching Oracle in many different areas including datatypes, stored procedures and functions, high availability solutions, ACID compliance and MVCC, hot backups, cold backups and dumps, full text, and other index options, materialized views and much more. Here’s a high-level…