Category Archives: Editorial

AI Medical Record Scanning

Posted on November 23, 2022 by way0utwest

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems continue to pervade many industries, usually where there is a lot of data and human developers struggle to build solutions that handle the complexities of the problem. Often the experts in these subject areas can’t fully … Continue reading →

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The Challenge of New Platforms

Posted on November 21, 2022 by way0utwest

I saw a customer asking about Exasol recently, which is an in-memory, columnar database. I know nothing about it, and it might work great, but we don’t support it. I didn’t think much of it, as I’m sure the customer … Continue reading →

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Self-Service Databases

Posted on November 16, 2022 by way0utwest

When I first started work as a software developer, I knew that getting an environment set up where I could compile a project might take a few hours or a few days. The complexities of how people built software projects, … Continue reading →

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What’s the Edge Case?

Posted on November 14, 2022 by way0utwest

Quite a few of the bugs we see in production systems come from data that isn’t handled well. Perhaps the developer never considered this data, or another bug lets data into a system that should never be recorded. These are … Continue reading →

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