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  • To mitigate these limitations and reduce write pressure, we’ve migrated, and continue to migrate, shardable (i.e. workloads that can be horizontally partitioned), write-heavy workloads to sharded systems such as Azure Cosmos DB, optimizing application logic to minimize unnecessary writes. We also no longer allow adding new tables to the current PostgreSQL deployment. New workloads default to the sharded systems.

    “wow, we’ve made our postgres so good and fast… by moving heavy workloads to a NoSQL database engine”. Truly mind-blowing, OpenAI. Just like their LLM service, not even their technical staff can stop themselves from lying and writing misleading statements.

    The only interesting part could have been what they use for caching… but of course they don’t give any details at all. And all the rest is already well-known DBOps stuff… and basically all automatic with stuff like cnpg.


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    22 days ago

    Huh? I’m confused, where exactly was I hateful?

    Disappointed, perhaps? Especially considering that the only two accidents I’ve been in during my entire life have been idiots with “ice and snow” (non-studded) tyres ice-skating into the back of my car.


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    22 days ago

    Sorry, but American statistics aren’t fully relevant to their comment. Sweden has much more rigorous laws and controls regarding tires, and a particular difference is also rules regarding the stud length and depth.

    Yes, our studded tires still damage the roads a bit more than “normal” tires, but it’s not an astronomical difference. The lifesaving and healthcare costs associated with studded tires weighs significantly higher. Your life is considered much more expendable in the US as well, so of course they say you shouldn’t use studded tires on ice… whereas our government research institute says you absolutely should.

    I also assume the US uses really cheap asfalt or something? Or because of higher speed limits? Worse driving styles: intensive speed changes instead of calm tempo driving? Despite like 65% of cars using studded tires here, I’ve seen less road work here in my entire life than during a single year in the US. Dunno.










  • That’d be an unusual setup. If you have users deploying containers on your host – that you trust enough to run whatever containers, but don’t want to give them ssh to the host – you’d usually have some kind of frontend such as Portioner, where you can have container exec and such.

    Containerization is not virtualization. It’s very possible to break out of containers, especially if configured badly, or if there are any found exploits in the container engine or even the kernel. Containers are “good enough” for the majority of projects, but it has never been designed to be a truly hardened sandbox.

    Basically, if you’re running an OpenSSH server inside a container, it’s likely that you’ve gotten the wrong ideas about securing your environment, and thus some old libraries in an old Debian image is the least of your worries.