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  • Thiruvaimozhi

    I am planning to write about a few pasurams (verses) that have deeply impressed me. The Thiruvaimozhi comprises 1,102 pasurams, which are divided into 10 Pathus (Cantos) of approximately 100 pasurams each. Each Pathu is further divided into 10 Padhigams (Decads). A Padhigam typically consists of about 10 verses, followed by a phalasruti (a concluding…

  • How to Find What’s Driving BigQuery Bytes Billed

    How to Find What’s Driving BigQuery Bytes Billed

    Recently, I reduced BigQuery cost significantly by changing how we maintained a token index table used for keyword search. The original design updated the index during ingestion. Each small OCR batch triggered a MERGE into a chunk_terms table. That looked incremental, but it turned out to be expensive because BigQuery still needed to scan the…

  • Going Live on Google Cloud Marketplace

    A Technical Lead’s Experience As the technical lead for MOGOPLUS’s recent launch on Google Cloud Marketplace, I want to share our journey and key insights. MOGOPLUS provides insights from unstructured data, primarily serving the lending sector. Our decision to join the Google Cloud Marketplace stemmed from our existing relationship as a GCP customer and our…

  • MySQL substring start is one based

    To my surprise, MySQL SUBSTRING functions start position is one based. A start position of ‘0’ will return an empty string. If you would like to get the first 100 characters of a column named ‘my_column’ you will need to use SUBSTRING(‘my_column’, 1, 100). Using SUBSTRING(‘my_column’, 0, 100). will return an empty string. Postgres and…

  • mysql setup for phabricator

    Create phabricator user to be used in phabricator config Grant the above user CREATE TABLESPACE permission so he can create DB Grant all permissions on the phabricator tables to the above user (daemons/upgrade scripts require different permissions – the permission list from the doc wasn’t enough, so I granted all permission to the user) CREATE…

  • Forum for Indians in Australia

    Ausindians

  • Bella donna

    Bella donna won’t be tamed Belluci, however, is unconcerned about what her children might think of her movies. ”If you are scared about what people think or what you represent or what your image can be, then you are not free any more in your choices. That can be dangerous for your art. I think…

  • Parrallel processing from the bash commandline

    for i in `seq 1 40`; do echo $i; /tmp/script.sh >> /tmp/script.out 2>&1 & done Note the lack of ‘;’ before ‘done’. The ‘&’ indicates the end of the statement.

  • DNS Zone File Serial

    Today, I came across this error while checking a DNS Zone file for error (I was trying to script the syntax check of a zone file before deploying it onto our production servers): named-checkzone example.com example.com.zone dns_rdata_fromtext: example.com.zone:3: near ‘201005051010’: out of range zone example.com/IN: loading from master file example.com.zone failed: out of range And,…

  • Movie News

    news2u.in is a place to read interesting happenings in Tamil Cinema World.