I’m flying back from a wonderful event: Strata.
I gave a talk there called “Esperwhispering” that seemed to pique many people’s interest. This is the stuff you do when a database just doesn’t have the horsepower to answer your questions fast enough.
Esper is an excellent, open-source CEP tool. It’s a shame its GPL, but hey… you can’t win ‘em all.
We use esper to power many things internally at OmniTI and our clients and Esper is the code CEP engine we use to make sure Circonus custsomers know when “things go wrong.
Defining the term: I recently used a term and was hit with a lot of out-of-band requests for explanation. It’s a good one and excellent food for thought.
ywahusty (yuh-wuh-hus-tee): you will always have users smarter than you.
This basic concept is one of sound, pragmatic systems engineering that might appear to fly in the face of traditional product engineering… but doesn’t.
In traditional product engineering, there is a goal to produce a product that is both accessible and useful to the largest subset of the predefined audience of the product.
I got a copy of “The Sriracha Cookbook: 50 “Rooster Sauce” Recipes that Pack a Punch” last week. First recipe today was just awesome. The egg filling was a little loose, I think I’ll back down the lime juice in the next batch of Sriracha Mayo. Still. Pop! Thumbs up.
I have some habanero stuffed olives (which make excellent spicy martini… below). I think I’ll half some of them and use that as garnish.
I don’t know now many times I’ve tried to eyeball a graph from this week against a graph from last week. This is both painful and senseless as my eyeballs simply aren’t that good. Enter “the right way to do it.” Bliss.
I used to export data into Excel and do linear regressions on it… How I have no need. I am happier person and people like me more.
Here’s how we made capacity planning easier for everyone.
What does it mean to be a database administrator? It means more than just respecting data in a room full of engineers and analysts that do not -- it means bending them to your will and making them respect it, too. It means knowing when people's concept of sacrosanct data integrity and consistency can be thrown out the window and letting those people know that, this time, they can cope with inaccuracy or volatility.
Slides are here, get 'em while they're hot.
