Some of the names used can seem to conflate the actual purpose of a feature’s functionality in distributed databases. However gossip is pretty spot on. Within a group of people gossiping the purpose is to find out each other’s business. What’s going on with Frank, who’s he seeing, and Sally started a business, say what!... Continue reading →

Last year amid the various blogs, conversations, writing, and other things I was doing attempting to put together a cool video of my ML4ALL experience my friend Suz (AKA @noopkat) posted a VLOG that summarized it better than I could put together. So I went about doing other things I could be productive at –... Continue reading →

Notice: TLDR is at the very bottom. Notice: This post may damage sensitive ears. At points it may be vulgar. Notice: If you want to get to just the Linux parts, scroll down to the “Patience and Linux Saves The Day” headline. The Beginning of Horror First a few positives for Windows 10. It runs... Continue reading →

Alright, nothing like multi-OS environments so you can prepare for the maximum number of issues that might come up. My recent issue is re-opening some virtual machines, originally created on Windows 10, and now with intent to use them on Linux. When trying to open these existing virtual machines I’ve gotten the following error: Kernel... Continue reading →

May the database deluge begin, it’s time for “Bunches of Databases in Bunches of Weeks”. We’ll get into looking at databases similar to how they’re approached in “7 Databases in 7 Weeks“. In this session I got into a hard look at PostgreSQL or as some refer to it just Postgres. This is the first... Continue reading →