Tag: best practices

  • Working with MS SQL

    Intro So in the past I’ve looked into Postgres and/or (a bit of) MongoDB. Both nice alternatives to consider! But in some cases, one has to use other flavours of SQL, say in some corporate settings: Think for instance Oracle, or MS SQL Server, or if you’re Cloud inclined… Azure SQL 😉 One of the…

  • Diminishing returns of parallel processing

    Intro It’s been a while without new entries here, as usual because I was busy one way or another. In keeping with the Master’s studies, one of my excuses is the homework for the “high performance computing” course. Recently we worked on OpenMP, and then with MPI. Both are cool and those that read this…

  • Higher Performance in R – Amdahl and Gustafson’s laws

    Intro So I’m currently taking this course about “High Performance Computing”. This entry is not about that exactly: let’s face it, R is not the best option there 😀 But some concepts I touched in the past I thought I could summarise today (for example of past entries: here or here, and more links in the…