wade womersley – york based software engineer
When it comes to building a push/pop system, both Redis and MongoDB can be used as effective solutions. However, there are a few key differences between these two databases that can impact which one you choose for your system. Redis is an in-memory data structure store that can be used as a database, cache, and … Read More “Expanding on performance of Redis vs MongoDB for a push/pull system” »
I’ve been working on a new as-fast-as-possible platform for a specific situation I can’t go in to right now but I wanted to use MongoDB, however, I needed to reduce costs and use AWS so I wanted to use DocumentDB and needed to compare. Sadly DocumentDB does not cover 100% of MongoDB. Here’s the comparison: … Read More “MongoDB vs DocumentDB” »
PHP is a widely used programming language that has been evolving rapidly in recent years. PHP 8.2 is the latest release, which came out on November 25th, 2021. This version brings several improvements, new features, and bug fixes, making it more efficient and secure than PHP 7.4. In this blog post, I’ll briefly discuss the … Read More “PHP 8.2 vs 7.4” »
So I asked Bard to give me a reason to help me as as PHP developer then digged in to each point. Here’s the answers and when I tried: Bard can help a PHP developer in a number of ways, including (wht: So TL;DR: ChatGPT is bounds ahead of Bard and I’m disappointed by that, … Read More “Google Bard – PHP developer viewpoint” »
I am loving the evolution of AI in the last year: it’s really developing rapidly and, if you still know how to rephrase your requests to work around limitations of the current implementations you can get a lot out of it. Google Bard and ChatGPT are two of the most popular chatbots on the market. … Read More “Google Bard vs ChatGPT – a quick review” »
So time to start blogging again, years of not doing it, I’ll slowly work up again so it will probably be a slow ramp up. I’ve had a rather comfortable life the last few years so let myself slip, as most of us are experiencing now, that is no longer the case so I feel … Read More “Years later, starting to blog” »