Week of July 10, 2022 A (hopefully) weekly column where I keep you updated on some of the topics I learned about during the week. SQL Optimization Last week, a query that I wrote was given and then modified on my own went into production. Then everything started going haywire. CPU usage went up to […]
As you can see from my blog, last week I attended the PyCon Israel 2022 conference (Day 1 summary, Day 2 summary). As one would expect for a Python conference in 2022, the hot topic was Machine Learning. Along with Machine Learning comes something called “Big Data”, which is still an ambiguous term, but basically […]
As a product of the 90s/early 2000s, getting educated in computers was rough. While we had at least one computer per classroom in elementary school (I went to a private school) we only had one semester of computer programming in high school, and it was in BASIC, already an outdated language (though if you know […]
As you may know, I am the lead developer on a group of sites run by JewishLanguages.org. The site, not of my own choosing, runs on CakePHP 4. A few years ago we had the choice to switch since it was on an old version of CakePHP, but I figured that since I was already […]