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Metaluim

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Metaluim··on Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks
Well, the pelican benchmark is easily verifiable.
Metaluim··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Well, not officially, but there are solutions for that. Like BDR (or Postgres Distributed nowadays) by EDB.
Metaluim··on AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?
You do realise this is your experience, and just outs you as a mediocre engineer and doesn't prove that slow and steady doesn't win the race, right?

Or did you write your comment with an intentional self-demeaning note, and not a sarcastic tone?

Metaluim··on Software Internals Book Club
It's funny - I was just thinking about your book club earlier this morning. Found some good recommendations over there!
Metaluim··on AWS us-east-1 down
So much for redundancy I guess.
Metaluim··on The power of keeping a coding journal (2014)
I do something similar to your first approach just as I'm about to context switch (either because the day has ended or I have to work on something else).

I write a small summary of what I was doing and what were my next steps at the time, and I write this either directly in the code, in paper or sometimes in a text file. I call them ENDSNAPs (end snapshots).

Metaluim··on Dev vs. Ops (2017)
But the model you mentioned also doesn't work, because it's essentially single-task, IIUC.
Metaluim··on New Tech Centers Sprout in Europe
Now all I need is for wages to be actually attractive in Lisbon, given the rising rents.
Metaluim··on Quiver – A Dropbox-like cloud storage platform with file protection features
Quiver is a startup developing a cloud storage platform, similar to Dropbox with additional protection and tracking over file usage. Quiver allows a user to share a file with other users and enforce various protections on it, such as a validation expiry date, read-only, geolocation based usage, etc...
Metaluim··on Prince of Persia – HTML5
There's literally only a room