Monthly Archives: October 2025

Cleaning Up the Cloud

Posted on October 3, 2025 by way0utwest

Recently, I got a bill from Azure. That’s not an unusual thing for many of you, but for me it was a surprise because it said I was late paying. I’ve had a number of services running, and I thought … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Ecstatic Shock

Posted on October 3, 2025 by way0utwest

ecstatic shock – n. a surge of energy upon catching a glimpse from someone you like, which scrambles your ungrounded circuits and tempts you to chase after that feeling with a kite and a key. What a great image. You … Continue reading →

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PRs Are Like Trouble Tickets

Posted on October 1, 2025 by way0utwest

I’ve spent quite a bit of my career as a DBA/sysadmin/Operations person. However, I’ve had my share of development positions as well. As I work with customers who look to mature their database development to be more like other software … Continue reading →

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AI Model Size, Parameters and Download

Posted on October 1, 2025 by way0utwest

At SQL Saturday Boston 2025, I gave a presentation on local LLMs and there was a great question that I wasn’t sure about. Someone asked about the download size vs the model size as listed on Hugging Face (or elsewhere). … Continue reading →

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