This is for You. Yes, You. That at least once in a lifetime said, “It works on my machine”. Ah. You haven’t? Are you sure? LIAR! Everybody has (and someone more than once in a lifetime) tested an application in a standalone all-in-one-environment for whatever reason. In this case, exactly the same platform the same... Continue Reading →
My (current) favorites Lego bricks in Telemetry
Telemetry and Lego have many things in common. Both could be collected. And telemetry logs are way cheaper than Lego bricks. If you got kids and it is Xmas time, you perfectly got what I mean. Now imagine that you have thousands of these Lego components flushed into a big bucket and you must build... Continue Reading →
A new cue in 23.1: love song for a vampire.
Version 23 is like a rose. It smells so good but has its thorn. We moved from 22.5 to 23.1 one of the so-called "Kennie’s elephant" (to be eaten byte after byte) in the cold night of 2nd December. In SaaS, it took 1.5 hours to upgrade this 50+ GB production database. In such dark... Continue Reading →
Tri-state of mind: unvealing the real power of READ COMMITTED isolation level.
Locking mechanisms are quite complex and so long to be deeply explained that could be used as a bulletproof lullaby if you need to let kids fall asleep. Or if you want to give up on someone at a speed date. Ok. That is the max level of humor admitted when talking about locking and... Continue Reading →