Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
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Vague subtoot:
The aversion to “politics” is a pathology of the tech scene. It's an extension of our denigration of “soft skills”.
Politics describes the process by which a group of two or more people make decisions.
Rejecting a PR to make documentation language gender-neutral is a political decision. Accepting such a PR is a political decision.
But! Accepting or rejecting a PR that adds a command line option is also a political decision! The difference is that this sort of PR is¹ less contentious.
¹: probably! There are plenty of examples of extremely contentious PRs.
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Thanks 🙏 to suggestions by our #PostgreSQL listeners, we have renamed Path To Citus Con!
The new #podcast name is "Talking Postgres" 👋, what do you think? ❤️
Find all past & future episodes of #TalkingPostgres here!
🎧 https://talkingpostgres.com
📺 On YouTube: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-playlist
Please tell your friends, boosts appreciated!
#Postgres #community #OpenSource #database #Microsoft #PathToCitusCon
@popey bring on the crazyness of Ed Davey and Keir Starmer, I'm sure it'll be a wild ride.
A very nice end to an otherwise bad week.
And then hop on over to PGDay Lowlands in Amsterdam the day after.
Where you can get double the database fun, tickets available now too:
For DBA Appreciation Day, why not treat yourself to some early September database fun.
By coming along to PGDay UK 2024 in London, you can get yourself a ticket now:
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Happy DBA Appreciation Day from (a subset of) the PGDay Lowlands team!
Registration is now open, especially for you heroes (and for everyone else too): https://2024.pgday.nl #DBADay
@dba_day
@dick_turpin so it turned out even Brexit couldn't heal there internal divisions.
It's just a shame they could not put the country first, rather than their internal problems.
It will be interesting to see when Sunak steps down.
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Today is the #dbaday . Please share the website https://dbaday.org with your team mates and say thank you to your DBA for all the hard work in the shadows!
#database #dba #PostgreSQL #Oracle #MySQL #MariaDB #SQLServer
@nixCraft 'Clearly we should use tabs over spaces'...
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uspol snark
You do realise that George III was more constrained by parliament than #SCOTUS have just made the US President, right? We had a civil war and everything that established that a century before the declaration of independence. And Glorious Revolution a few years after that to get rid of James II.
They haven't rolled you back to 1776, but to the 1600s. You poor bastards.
In which case, just use Wifi :)
@ascherbaum having built some high density RPI cluster servers.
I'd go with CM4s over stock RPIs.
I will say, cabling is very easy to underestimate.
Even with on PCB switches, and in chassis switches, getting 96 nodes into 2U is a struggle. Especially if you want decent storage too.
Would be hard to use SPI like that, whilst its a multidrop bus, you need peripheral select lines to manage bus access.
Plus gate capacitance, trace length and slew rate come into play to limit things in practice.
Would be much better off going with CAN or RS485, except none of that would get close to the bandwidth of Ethernet, especially for the cost point.
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EDB provides a data and AI platform leveraging #Postgres for any cloud. Ensuring high availability, security, and compliance, EDB helps enterprises modernize and scale efficiently.
And they've joined the band of supporters for PGDay Lowlands! 2024.pgday.nl
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Got a cool free culture, digital rights or open source talk?
Good news!
Our scheduled track CfP is still open and we'd love to hear from you!
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@nixCraft Technically, I run my apps as containers on VMs on bare metal, so kind of all 3.
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Registration for PGDay UK 2024 in - surprise: London is now open. The event takes place on Sep 11th.
A few sponsor slots are also still available.
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Our Call for Speakers is now open until July 9: https://2024.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/
Get all your talk proposals in on performance tuning, administering large scale PostgreSQL installations, success (or: failure!) stories, GenAI, ... #CfP
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
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