throwaway2380
Re:Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:43PM (#24454980)
Traces can be a good place to handle high cardinality observability data. Traces essentially are a particular form of structured logs. Traces support arbitrary tags, and trace analysis systems can be optimized for quick aggregations over high cardinality fields.
Re:The Art of Prolog (1994)
on Sunday June 21, 2020 @06:05PM (#23595777)
I've been trying to push myself to learn Prolog, using this book, because Prolog seems like a very elegant way of modeling the interactions between business rules, compared to the bespoke functions I typically write during web app jobs.
I have no complaints about the book, but I've been struggling to figure out an easy setup for "Prolog as a web app backend." Typical Prolog implementations are not designed to be used as concurrently-accessed databases. Datalog seems to be a nearby technology that is more pointed towards that use case, but even then, there seem to be scant few implementations of Datalog databases with transaction support, and near zero that are open source.
RDF/OWL databases seem to be another conceptually-near possibility, but they also seem to have few implementations that are prepared for high-scale concurrent access.
Overall, it seems that there is a decent amount of interest in "logic-type" query languages as a curiosity, but little attention to implementations that support use in OLTP business applications, which makes adoption difficult.
Does anybody have any advice?
Re:x86 Bare Metal Examples
on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:26PM (#19436097)
> When I tell to managers that I’m good at documenting, they always say: great, we need better documentation! But then, one of the following may happen:
I relate so much it hurts. The industry at large seems unable to see the lost opportunity of significant investment in technical documentation.
Re:20 Years Since John Perry Barlow Declared Cyberspace Independence
on Monday February 08, 2016 @03:08PM (#11060537)
What about techniques that obscure the source of information?
Whether it be something like Tor, or something like a distributed database, internet communication may require hardware and physical location of data, but there are ways to allow information transmission without being strongly reliant on a fixed physical source.
Also, this capability is not limited to the internet.
Re:The result would be a catastrophe (1985)
on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:00PM (#10989384)
Boisjoly later revealed this memo to the presidential commission investigating the disaster and was then forced to leave Morton Thioklol after been shunned by disgruntled colleagues.
I find this phenomenon so difficult to understand.