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DaQuane Cherry was once the kid who wore a hoodie to hide skin flare-ups in school. Now he’s an artist and advocate helping others feel seen. He reflects on his psoriasis journey, the power of small joys, and why loving yourself first isn’t a cliché—it’s essential. Plus, a deep dive into the history of La Roche-Posay’s legendary spring. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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VividCortex is the best way for organizations to eliminate their most critical database visibility gap. Find out more at www.vividcortex.com.
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In this episode of Brainwaves, Alex chats with Bruce Momjian, a member of PostgreSQL's core development team, at the PGConf Local meetup in Philadelphia, July 2017. They discuss Bruce's background with PostgreSQL, some of the history of PostgreSQL’s development, how community support helps drive the database's evolution, and the importance of PostgreSQL's hybrid userbase. www.vividcortex.com Related Links: - Bruce Momjian's website: https://momjian.us - Bruce's presentation at PGConf Philly: https://www.pgconf.us/conferences/Philly2017/program/proposals/major-features-postgres-10…
In this episode of Brainwaves, Baron Schwartz and Jay Ennis -- VividCortex's CEO and VivdCortex's VP of Product Development -- join Alex to discuss some of the concepts that help engineering teams operate and build safely. Jay and Baron talk about what they aim to protect and avoid when setting up safety protocols for a team, and they discuss why some commonly held beliefs, like root cause analysis, are traps. Ideas from other industries -- such as aviation, EMT emergency reporting, and horse rearing -- lend helpful perspectives and models. www.vividcortex.com Related Links: - Baron on the "Root Cause Fallacy": https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/07/21/root-cause-fallacy/ - The rules behind aviation Flight Levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level - A definition of "load shedding": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_Shedding - A history of human/computer automation in chess: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151201-the-cyborg-chess-players-that-cant-be-beaten - NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System: https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/report/faq.html…
In this episode of Brainwaves, we discuss how technologies like Amazon Lambda and 3D XPoint -- when integrated into centralized services -- can have a rippling effect on the industries around them. Also... Half-Life 3 confirmed?? www.vividcortex.com Related Links: - Amazon's Lambda Info: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ - "Serverless with Lambda": https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/aws-lamda-makes-serverless-applications-a-reality/ - 3D XPoint Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint - Introducing 3D XPoint: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11208/intel-introduces-optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-with-3d-xpoint-memory - Importance of Speed: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/technology/impatient-web-users-flee-slow-loading-sites.html?pagewanted=all - 3D XPoint in Datacenters: https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/03/20/like-flash-3d-xpoint-enters-datacenter-cache/ - Half-Life 3 Confirmed: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/half-life-3-confirmed - TJ Holowaychuk's Ping Service: https://blog.apex.sh/introducing-apex-ping-80664eacc50f - Intel's Custom Hardware for Amazon: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/13/intel-designs-custom-aws-cpu-for-fastest-ec2-instances-ever/…
In this episode of Brainwaves, we discuss the recent Amazon S3 outage and consider what it might -- and might not -- imply about cloud storage in general. www.vividcortex.com Related Links: -S3 Outage Postmortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ - Timeline of AWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services - S3 Status: https://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/s3-us-standard.rss - Ars Technica Breakdown of the Event: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/amazon-s3-problem-caused-by-command-line-mistake-during-maintenance/ - Preetam’s Misframe blog post about S3: https://misfra.me/2017/02/10/s3-is-not-just-for-backups/ - 2015 S3 Outage Info: https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://blog.status.io/2015/08/10/post-mortem-s3/&source=gmail&ust=1489155207972000&usg=AFQjCNGOfSzyPBN1__KiKXdYuF_I37Tvvw - Pakistan - YouTube Incident: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/pakistans-accid/ -Google Whitepaper on Hard Drive Failure: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf - Netflix Talk at AWS Re:Invent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o52vMQ4Ey9I…
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