Engineering Insights

The Oracle HA Decision Tree: RAC vs Data Guard vs Both

"We have RAC, so we're covered for DR." It's one of the most expensive sentences in Oracle operations, different failures, and the cost of confusing them is usually discovered at the worst possible time. This is the long version of how I think about the choice. We'll start where every good HA design Oracle 19c, the enterprise workhorse, with notes on where the newer releases — 23ai and the 26ai — change the picture. It's written from general industry practice and lab work — your The short versio

I Built My Own Analytics Platform Instead of Paying for PostHog

Introduction Let me clear one thing up right out of the gate: this is not a teardown of PostHog. In fact, PostHog is an incredible piece of software and one of the primary inspirations for my journey. But while grinding away on my own side projects, I kept hitting the exact same wall. I desperately wanted product analytics, system monitoring, and operational visibility, but I didn't want the cognitive overhead of managing four different platforms. I didn't want to copy-paste half a dozen diffe

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

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NASA will wear high-tech Prada long johns to the Moon

We've seen Axiom Space and Prada's collaboration on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit. Now the company has revealed the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) that astronauts will wear underneath it when Artemis IV returns humans to the Moon in 2028. The LCVG is the all-important base layer that will keep the crew cool and comfortable while inside the AxEMU and on spacewalks. Cold water is circulated through tubes embedded in the suit to whisk heat away from astrona

VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system

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Why are there so many canines in fine art?

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Amazing Digital Dentures (a failed project)

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

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