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I don’t want the best

March 27, 2020January 9, 2020 by jessitron

“Which database is the best?” Superlatives are dangerous. They pressure you to line up the alternatives in a row, judge them all, make the perfect decision. This implies that databases can be compared based on internal qualities. Performance, reliability, scalability, integrity, what else is there? We know better than that. We recognize that relational databases, … Read moreI don’t want the best

How I broke (and fixed) docs.atomist.com

May 26, 2019October 18, 2018 by jessitron

or, a week in the life of a programmer Lately I’m working on our documentation. We write it in markdown, turn it into a web site, and then serve it from s3. To turn it into a web site, we use mkdocs and the material theme for mkdocs. Mkdocs is written in Python. Then we … Read moreHow I broke (and fixed) docs.atomist.com