Some LLM rubbish happened today and "Dijkstra weeps" popped into my head. But wait, is familiarity of Edsger's EWDs too niche for me to use that in public, casually? I know! I can check google web search to see if it's a known phrase or not ... Great. Now I have (weeping of Dijkstra)².
AWS, the owners of "AWS DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)", yesterday joined the "DocumentDB" opensource project, another postgreql-wrapping solution created by MS for the same sort of DBaaS in Azure. And its simultaneously been accepted into the Linux Foundation.
New blog post on the fun new hardware advancements which databases can leverage for great gains, and why the cloud means it doesn't matter that they exist. 🫠 transactional.blog/b...
Reading Victorian England novels is interesting as they were busily inventing huge chunks of the modern world. Which in many ways was quite stable until the last 20-30 years or so where we've been busily inventing TBD (we can't seem to stabilize on anything)
