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Postgres and Parquet in the data lake(crunchydata.com)
90 points by pramsey 4y ago|25 comments
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by pramsey 5y ago
It was already settled, just not by white folk. In fact that would be another whole aspect of the adventure. Over each rise a whole new culture, which may or may not welcome or tolerate you.
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by pramsey 5y ago
There's a wonderful exploration of "crackpots" in the aptly-named "The Crackpots" by Harlan Ellison in his short story collection "Paingod" (which is excellent). https://sckool.org/paingod-
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by pramsey 5y ago
or https://crunchybridge.com
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by pramsey 5y ago
The fact that PostgreSQL is pigeon-holed as a "database" blinds folks to the fact that it is also a full-fledged integration environment. It's a place where you can bind together multiple kinds of data and multiple kinds of a
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Hobu Is Hiring(twitter.com)
1 points by pramsey 5y ago|0 comments
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Randomizing Spatial Indexes(blog.crunchydata.com)
1 points by pramsey 5y ago|0 comments
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Fast, Flexible Summaries with Aggregate Filters in PostgreSQL(blog.crunchydata.com)
2 points by pramsey 5y ago|0 comments
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Cloud Raster and Postgres / Postgis(blog.crunchydata.com)
1 points by pramsey 5y ago|0 comments
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Generating JSON Directly from Postgres(blog.crunchydata.com)
4 points by pramsey 5y ago|0 comments
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by pramsey 5y ago
There's some work to be done to make all functions parallelizeable. After that it gets harder. For large scale raster analysis, moving the processing closer to the data becomes paramount. I feel like purpose-built raster processing wil
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by pramsey 5y ago
I remain pretty leery of raster in the database, for the reasons you list, but the power of GDAL to reach out over networks for raster access makes me a little more excited about some raster/vector use cases. It's not a panacea, b
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by pramsey 5y ago
PostGIS is now basically the "industry standard", so most third party tools work with it, even Esri! Here's some open source parts: Desktop: https://qgis.org Middleware: https://mapserver.org , https:&
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by pramsey 6y ago
It felt like there was a missing chapter! Consumers don't see the value at all. Doctors see the value, but won't pay for it, because it doesn't change their bottom line. Whose bottom line does this change then? HMOs, insura
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by pramsey 7y ago
Best book on the subject I read is Wright's "A Short History of Progress" https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Progress-Ronald-Wright/... Jared Diamond's "Collapse" is in a similar vein, b
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by pramsey 7y ago
I'd guess "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", which is actually about his daydreams, his internal secret life, not some real world life behind closed doors.
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by pramsey 8y ago
Yes, the top-line emphasis on MapBox when all the actually useful work was done by other tools to get around MapBox API limitations. A little funny.
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by pramsey 10y ago
Even granted the technical capacity (and there seems to be a quantity of magical thinking in this article) the core question remains unanswered: to what end? We get a moon base established and then...
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How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years--This Time to Stay(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by pramsey 10y ago|1 comments
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by pramsey 10y ago
Concur. The pricing makes sense for their "target market" of folks who currently have a "bursting at the seams" MySQL or PgSQL instance, but it locks out folks just getting started with a tiny database and low load. This
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by pramsey 10y ago
From a long-term point of view, the cost of the wind energy is just the depreciation of the turbines plus the maintenance costs on the farm. Those two dollar inputs will create a fairly predictable number of kilowatt hours output. The probl
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by pramsey 11y ago
Always good to know what is happening under the covers... https://www.pgcon.org/2015/schedule/events/829.en.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1fcvkl0ffQ