Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jul 29, 2011
We have incident reporting procedures at Pythian. This incident report was sent just recently internally at Pythian. We learned some good lessons from it so I hope it would be useful to the community as well – copying it below as is…
As part of our incident management process, you will find below a summary of the details from the incident that occurred on July 29th at 3PM EDT.
Overview:
– Pythian employees were de-motivated by the lack of refreshments on Friday afternoon
Impact:
– Bruce didn’t get his beer and had a bad start to his vacation
Root Cause:
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Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Mar 12, 2010
This is the 182nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Make sure to read the whole edition so you do not miss where to submit your SQL limerick!
This week started out with me posting about International Women’s Day, and has me personally attending Confoo (Montreal) which is an excellent conference I hope to return to next year. I learned a lot from confoo, especially the blending nosql and sql session I attended.
This week was also the Hotsos Symposium. Doug’s Oracle Blog has a series of posts about Hotsos. If all this talk about conferences has gotten you excited, Joshua Drake notes that 14 days and the hotel is almost full for postgresql conference east which is March 25th-28th in Philadelphia. And the Oracle database insider notes that the Oracle OpenWorld call for papers is now open.
According to Susan Visser this week (ending tomorrow) is also read an e-book week. So if you have not already done so, read an e-book! She links a coupon for an e-book in the post.
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Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Jul 24, 2008
Exceptional Software Explained: Embrace Error, by Robert “r0ml” Lefkowitz of Asurion. One of the contenders for “best open source comedian”, r0ml delivers a humorous look at the past and future of software development models. This keynote was delivered at OSCon 2008 on Tuesday evening.
Play this 20 minute video directly in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/577/play or download the 286 Mb file directly at http://technocation.org/node/577/download.
Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Feb 14, 2008
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pllolcode/
Do I really need to say more?
