Sigh. Yep. It was always more about the ability to evolve one's schema flexibly, but we didn't market that correctly at times (in my personal opinion). You always want schema. You just don't always (or often?) know exactly what shape your data model should assume from the start
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MongoDB Schema Design Achieves 60x Performance Improvement
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@MongoDB is sometimes incorrectly referred to as “schemaless,” but the reality is schema design is just as important in MongoDB as in [a relational database], and data modeling choices will make or break the performance of your app" https://
dev.to/mongodb/mongod
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GenAI Hype Fades: Deep Learning Emerges as Lasting Legacy
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When the generative AI hype fades: "Once all the hype around GenAI fades—and it will—we’ll be left with increased investments in deep learning and machine learning, which may be GenAI’s biggest contribution to AI" https://
infoworld.com/article/370554
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Open Sourcing Prompts: The New Code Sharing Model
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The idea of open sourcing prompts keeps coming up. @monkchips first clued me into the idea using Midjourney: you see and learn from others' prompts. If prompt engineering is a new way to code (as @mikeloukides has noted), then "open sourcing" prompts makes sense
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Open Source Cloud Collaborations: Following the Money Trail
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Wondering if OpenELA, OpenTF, or other open source corporate collaborations will work? Follow the cloud money https://
infoworld.com/article/370509
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Lock-in in Tech: Overused Term, Universal Problem
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"Lock in" is the most overly used, and least useful, term we use in tech. Or one of them. Pretty much every vendor uses it to refer to Something Bad™ that other vendors will do to them…even as they do it, too (just in different ways). All tech choices bring "lock in"
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Microsoft Oracle Open Source Licensing Access Challenges
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Yes, I found that (eventually). I'm having a hard time finding anything from Microsoft. They say "open source licensing" but I can't actually find out what the license is. And Oracle, being Oracle, requires me to set up an account just to view code samples….
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Big Tech Documentation and Code Licensing Policies Explained
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Anyone know how Microsoft, Google, Oracle, etc. license a) their documentation and b) their code samples? I see AWS (
https://
aws.amazon.com/terms/#:~:text
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Cloud Companies Legal Advantage in Code Operationalization Disputes
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I don't think it would. And remember: there's only one company that could bring suit. This is meant to block a certain kind of company…that would operationalize their code more effectively than they would. No SI could do that. Just the clouds.
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Finding Job Satisfaction: When to Stay and When to Leave
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True. I'm fortunate to really love my job, though I haven't always. Sometimes I work until I like my job again (or leave).