Category Archives: Editorial

The Role of Databases in the Era of AI

Posted on October 14, 2024 by way0utwest

I’m hosting a webinar tomorrow with this same title: The Role of Databases in the Era of AI. Click the link to register and you’ll get some other perspectives from Microsoft and Rie Merritt. However, I think this is an … Continue reading →

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Serverless Gets Faster

Posted on October 12, 2024 by way0utwest

When the Azure SQL Database serverless option was introduced, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get the database to pause any sooner than 1 hour. That meant I needed to ensure clients didn’t access the system for an … Continue reading →

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Everything is Code

Posted on October 11, 2024 by way0utwest

I posted a note on Twitter/X with this quote: “The content updates had not previously been treated as code because they were strictly configuration information.” This is from testimony given by Crowdstrike to a US Congressional committee in trying to … Continue reading →

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Keep. It. Simple.

Posted on October 9, 2024 by way0utwest

I get a tech newsletter most days, which has news that I enjoy, but interspersed among the news and ads are projects, frameworks, or repos, most of which I’ve never heard of before. I used to read these, but it … Continue reading →

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