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BENI-FUCKING-HANA?! It had nothing to fucking do with me! Something about laundering drug money through off-shore boat racing and a guy named Rocky Aoki. You know, the founder of Benihana. Benihana? Beni-fucking-hana? BENI-FUCKING-HANA?! WHY?! WHY, WHY, GOD?! Why would You be so cruel as to choose a chain of fucking hibachi restaurants to take me down?!
>Multiple DB landscapes won’t cut it for large scale planning systems, data partitions within a single DB architecture alone cause too many performance issues. That's how we know you don't operate at a significant scale. You haven't even reaches the limitations of a single db or problems that require different types of databases for different data. >I guess SAP HANA apps are simple. That's a database, apps using it could be simple or complex ... When one day you reach the actual limitations of the tools you use then you will discover a whole new category of problems exist in the world. Problems you were previously shielded from because you use a product that solves these problems so you can work in your bubble
All ERPs are apps but not all apps are ERPs. Multiple DB large scale applications won’t cut it for large scale planning systems, data partitions within a single DB architecture alone cause too many issues. I guess SAP HANA apps are simple. Who would have known. Would hate to work anywhere near someone with your ego, not to mention ever hire someone like that. Toxic for the team involved. Anyway cheers.
From MIT digital currency initiative: Recently, theoretical thinking about 51% attacks has evolved. A plethora of alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) with wildly differing market capitalizations have launched. This has made 51% attacks against altcoins realistic because only a small proportion of miners from larger coins need to switch to a smaller coin in order to control 51% of the smaller coin's network hashrate. This has led to the creation of economic models that consider the incentives behind launching a 51% attack in a world where enough hashrate can be purchased if the attacker is willing to pay. These theories suggest that successful attacks are either break-even or profitable unless miners have large fixed costs associated with their mining hardware that could not be recouped in the case of an attack. Exchanges are not incentivized to disclose successful attacks due to the risk of being perceived as insolvent and journalists are rarely able to provide detailed data on an attack. Futhermore, 51% attacks are transient events meaning that unless they are observed at the time of attack, it is not possible to detect them later. We built a system to actively monitor scores of Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies and detect chain reorganizations (reorgs) which can indicate that a 51% attack has occured. When an attack is detected, the system analyzes the blocks involved and reports any transactions that have been double-spent. The system also estimates the cost of attack based on hashrate rental prices at the time of the attack. The goal is to gather real-time empirical data on the rate of reorgs on popular cryptocurrencies to provide guidance to the industry on better practices for managing Proof-of-Work security. Since we launched the reorg tracker in June 2019, we have detected over 40 reorgs that were 6 or more blocks deep on coins such as BTG, HANA, VTC, XVG, EXP and LCC. Some of these reorgs contained double-spends and were hundreds of blocks deep. We have also seen evidence that hashrate rental markets were used to perform a subset of the attacks
To be fair, my only exposure to it was a misguided attempt from the new director of the BI department to convince our company to drop our already fully implemented SAP BW/BOBJ on HANA (that we paid a lot of $$$ to get integrated just a couple years before) and replace it by Microstrategy simply because that's what he used in his old company and he didn't wanted to learn SAP. I had nothing against the product but has the senior ERP admin/dev, throwing away our perfectly working system just because of his lack of skills pissed me off. One of the reasons I left. The ERP and business systems consulting world is a top shit show with $$$ being wasted right and left.