Andy Bennett @databasescaling

Data | Strategy | Delivery ⇾ Technologist & Engineer. Data-intensive systems. Founder @RegDyn. Inhabits the void between hardware, software and users. linkedin.com/in/andyjpb London, UK Joined March 2010

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Andy Bennett @databasescaling

3 years ago

.@GDSTeam The domains user register.gov.uk (for example register.register.gov.uk) that redirect to the Archived Registers seem to have disappeared. Is this a temporary outage? Thanks!

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Andy Bennett @databasescaling

3 years ago

Someone just robbed Waitrose whilst I was at the till paying for my lunch. The cashier raised his eyebrow at the monitor but couldn't do much There were lots of middle-class cries of "He's stolen the Prosecco" from over by the door.

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Andy Bennett @databasescaling

3 years ago

This is an excellent read for anyone who has ever wondered what all the fuss about DACs in Digital Audio is all about.

James Deery @derkyjadex

3 years ago

This is an excellent read for anyone who has ever wondered what all the fuss about DACs in Digital Audio is all about.

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Register Dynamics @RegDyn

3 years ago

We've updated our careers page so if you'd like to find out more about what it's like to work with us, take a peek! register-dynamics.co.uk/jobs/ #Jobs #DataJobs #WorkLifeBalance #Careers

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Andy Bennett @databasescaling

3 years ago

"Build one to throw away. (You will anyhow.)"

Incunabula @incunabula

3 years ago

"Build one to throw away. (You will anyhow.)"

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Incunabula @incunabula

3 years ago

The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/

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Andy Bennett @databasescaling

3 years ago

The Educational sector has been leading the way in Identity for decades. #+

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Peter Wells @peterkwells

3 years ago

The failure of the UK state - and it is a failure of the state - to provide good geolocation services to the emergency services is a) annoying and b) harmful to the emergency services and people who rely on them

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Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett

3 years ago

NEW: A Civil Society Glossary and Primer for End-to-End Encryption Policy in 2022 — #privacy #surveillance #messenger #interoperability #encryption #endtoendencryption @WhatsApp @signalapp alecmuffett.com/article/16184

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Jens Axboe @axboe

3 years ago

"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." Quote attributed to @cra, and I don't think I've ever seen anything more true posted.

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Andy Bennett @databasescaling

3 years ago

The Orient Express is in London Victoria again. I've not seen it for ages. It's attached to a Diesel engine sporting the name plaque "Queen's Messenger" along with a Deutsche Bahn plaque.

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Tony Finch @fanf

3 years ago

i have been playing around and experimenting with histograms and quantile sketches a common theme is some kind of logarithmic bucketing, so the sketch can store a wide range of values with reasonable relative precision, e.g. 1%