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postgres

Postgres: Does Dropping Indexes and Foreign Keys before Inserts Really Work to Speed up Performance?

There is a use case where about 10000 records are inserted every few seconds after some processing. There was a suggestion that dropping indexes before the data insert would improve the speed of the inserts. The postgres docs recommend removing the indexes and foreign keys. Creating an index on pre-existing data is quicker than updating […]

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How much does the South African State steal from the public when an iPhone is bought?

At the time of writing a iPhone 14 256 GB costs: R23999 A third party know as the State – who rules by decree but does no work – steals a portion of every transaction in South Africa. How much the SA State steals from the Consumer? To buy a R23999 iphone – one needs […]

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Eskom

How Long does it take Eskom to Fix a Burnt out Meter [2023]?

The electricity meter got burnt after a bout of rolling blackouts (loadshedding) from Eskom. After switching from generator to mains – the lights flashed and flickered – and the mains /earth leakage switched tripped. An inspection of the electricity meter facing the road outside the house was made. Components inside the electricity meter were melted […]

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easy-equities

EasyEquities EC10 Constituents

EasyCrypto-EC10-Risk-Disclosure EC10-September_2021 January 2023 November 2023 April 2024 November 2024 Bitcoin is now 70% of the portfolio. February 2025 Source Easy equities crypto site

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performance web performance wordpress

WordPress Performance: Vanilla vs Cached

In the post an inquiry into the performance difference of various wordpress setups is examined. A Vanilla WordPress Instance is compared with the following factors: PHP Opcache, W3 Total Cache plugin with redis, disk enchanced and memcached page caches enabled. This can be used to give an idea but as always with performance your context […]