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Searching for People

Posted on August 16, 2023 by way0utwest

Inside Redgate Software, someone posted a picture and was asking if anyone knew who the person was. In this case, there had been a conversation at an event, and a picture was taken, but our employee couldn’t remember the individual’s … Continue reading →

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Confidential VMs

Posted on August 3, 2020 by way0utwest

Ever since we started to offload workloads to hardware that we didn’t physically control, there have been security concerns. I remember when this started with application service providers and web workloads. This has continued to be an issue as more … Continue reading →

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MoSQL

Posted on December 6, 2018 by way0utwest

Google is doing more SQL, or at least shifting towards relational SQL databases as a way of storing data. At least, some of their engineers see this as a better way to store data for many problems. Since I’m a … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful Google Mind

Posted on June 21, 2016 by way0utwest

I read a quote a few years ago that really resonated with me. The quote is attributed to Jeffrey Hammerbacher, an early Facebook employee that left to found Cloudera, a data analytics company. The quote went like this: “The best … Continue reading →

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