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To Vector, or not to Vector, that is the Question
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A data-driven framework for making smart decisions about vector databases
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The Engineering Wisdom Behind Redis’s Single-Threaded Design
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In the relentless pursuit of performance, our industry often gravitates toward seemingly obvious solutions: more cores, more threads, more concurrency. Yet Redis—one of the most performant databases in the world—has maintained its commitment to a primarily single-threaded execution model. As various Redis forks emerge claiming dramatic performance improvements through multi-threading,…
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What AI Coding Assistants Have in Common with iRobot Roomba?
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In 2010, I purchased my first iRobot Roomba, the 700 series model launched that year. It promised to revolutionize automated cleaning, a claim repeatedly made since the device’s initial release in 2002. Unaware of previous models’ shortcomings, I was captivated by the promises of this new version. I recall reading…
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How to Create more Effective Developer Content
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Let’s say you create developer content for a living. In that case, chances are that you work in one of those fancy jobs titles like Developer Advocacy, Community Management, Product Technical Marketing, Program Management, and many others. Regardless of your title, what is essential is for you to apply effectiveness…
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Ultimate Guide to the Terraform Provider for Elastic
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Most developers deploy their Elastic (Elasticsearch and Kibana) clusters manually by copying the bits to the target system or semi-manually using containers. This might work well if you need to maintain few clusters for your company, where likely you know the name of each one from the top of your…
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How to Help People in Community Forums Like a Boss
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Whether it is part of your job description or not, helping users in community forums is always a great idea if you work for a company representing a given technology, product, or service. The key idea is to make sure that users don’t struggle. But how do you know when…
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Excluding Files from a List in Terraform
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Since the introduction of the for_each feature in Terraform 0.12 it is now possible to code powerful constructs to express the logic of your infrastructure. But sometimes you have to use some creativity to use this feature. I recently had to write a Terraform code that could upload all the…
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Understanding Streaming Data and Analytics with Apache Kafka®
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Slides of the session “Understanding Streaming Data and Analytics with Kafka” that I delivered on ApacheCon 2020. Have fun ✨
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Troubleshooting 101
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Part of my job as Developer Advocate is to reach out to developers in social forums like Stackoverflow, Reddit, and Slack communities to check whether I can provide help. While I feel great pleasure in doing this, it is getting harder and harder to help people these days. I have…