As a software developer I want to be able to designate certain code to run inside the GPU so it can execute in parallel. Specifically this post demonstrates how to use Python 3.9 to run code on a GPU using … Continue reading
I’m working on a project where I’m trying to harvest lists of data from ChatGPT via its API. This post applies to the gpt-3.5-turbo model called via the API. I don’t have access to the GPT 4.0 API yet, but … Continue reading
Django has a powerful ORM, but like any ORM it suffers when querying data that has complex relationships. Django supports foreign keys and many to many relationships out of the box with ease. Sometimes a report or data feed has … Continue reading
Recently had a project where I needed to get a CRUD admin up and running quick. My go to framework for CRUD is Django Admin. However Python/Django isn’t always an option for various technical or political reasons. In this case … Continue reading
With MySQL you can opt to connect to the database using an encrypted connection. This option is important to consider on AWS if you are using RDS for your MySQL database. The network between your EC2 server and the RDS server … Continue reading
The concept of a DBA – database administrator, has practically gone out of style as a full time job. DBA work, if it is being done, is handled by someone or something else, perhaps in a more vanilla way that … Continue reading
Ran a very specific benchmark of MySQL – the native SSL connection performance penalty on AWS RDS. When establishing a MySQL connection there is a way to tell the server to use SSL to encrypt the communication between the client … Continue reading
Everything is getting capital ‘S’ Smart these days. Smart phones, Smart homes, Smart cars, in EPIC there are ‘Smart phrases’, and even a local cafe chain has something called Smart beans…. The Smart trend lumps together intelligent networks, big data, … Continue reading
The world is now generating zetabytes of data annually and it is only projected to increase. The spread of smart phones, the amount of sophisticated yet cheap sensors, near zero cost of storage, and the amount of investment dollars behind Big … Continue reading
I recently published a benchmark of EC2 vs RDS MySQL performance. This article is a follow up to that. Specifically, I’m comparing EC2 vs RDS in the situation where one EC2 instance is being used as a combined app server … Continue reading
