It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

The day that I was moments away from over a year and half ago, caught a
case of amnesia, and clawed my way back to, the long, painful, because pain
builds character.

There will be one contestant, me. The rules will be made in the fly. And I
will share what no other living soul has yet to whiteness. Not my stress
collaborators, or occasional branch interlopers. Not those closest to me in
the world. It’s a myth, a mirage, and today on collection creation day,
it’s come to life.

I officially turned into a pumpkin yesterday or the day before, so my heart
felt appreciation to whoever put it on the calendar.

This is not my best, the world opens up at the end, but it is the best I’ll
do. Get out your memes, your jeers, and your beers. Within a fees, the
contest begins.


MRM
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

Alright, a little collection creat contest overtime after the toss up
finish:

https://github.com/markrmiller/solr/issues/1


On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 7:51 AM Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The data dump deadline on the Solr ref branch is just about here as well.
>
> Learned a lot. Tried a lot. Seen a lot. Redid a lot, threw away a lot,
> turned upside down and inside out a lot.
>
> I can 10-100x these Solr tests. Do the same to performance and stability.
> Do this. Do that.
>
> Plenty of interest in those things.
>
> But there is really only one interest I came out with ...
>
> Even if you do all that, ride the flow into the Sun, the root of the
> problem remains the same.
>
> And only a collection creation contest can save the day.
> --
> - Mark
>
> http://about.me/markrmiller
>
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

The data dump deadline on the Solr ref branch is just about here as well.

Learned a lot. Tried a lot. Seen a lot. Redid a lot, threw away a lot,
turned upside down and inside out a lot.

I can 10-100x these Solr tests. Do the same to performance and stability.
Do this. Do that.

Plenty of interest in those things.

But there is really only one interest I came out with ...

Even if you do all that, ride the flow into the Sun, the root of the
problem remains the same.

And only a collection creation contest can save the day.
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

Technically the contest was a toss up.

But I refuse to let go just yet. There might be overtime. Damnit, I put in
too much too many times to come up an inch short.
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

It’s a small beer outside concert break for the great creat contest. My
next reply will report the conclusion. The it’s not the end of what should
happen, just enough of the beginning.

A quick recap of the effort and the previous efforts.

I put a lot of effort into solving the Solr test problem. That led me to
making all kinds of performance and stability improvements and bug fixes.

A lot of the issues will all that is around the collection API and all that
goes in that world.

Do improvements. And then it was virtuous connected circle amount it all.

And at the end of the day, I found that that even with all that, a final
solution, the quality and stability and everything that I was seeking, was
so much closer, but not there.

And then I found that if I pushed the collection API hard as hell, the rest
of the answers would start to fall. Sure, you want to push in other places.
Other things are important. But most of them either do not remain elusive
or have answers that overlap with the collection API hammering.

And so I finish the start of that effort to put a bow and finishing touch
on everything. To show how it would have fully pulled everything together
and to give a peak at that world.

MRM
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

Whew, I’m going super slow today, lots of breaks, it’s nice outside. Those
ducks are almost enough.

One note spoiler, the collection creat contest is actually not a contest at
all. One real contestant and all.

Nor is the time to show off my super duper branch of a lifetime.

It’s documentation of the moment I cross the threshold that I stood over
and invested ridiculously to back to. It’s the demonstration and final
large flashlight to and for me on my effort.

It’s an invitation to join me in that moment not yet the flaunting of it.

MRM


On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 3:11 PM Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m rested I’m vaccinated, the contest is back on!
>
> There is some conventional wisdom out there that’s I took this journey
> wrong. Or at maybe C-, but you used to be a good student, so let’s
> straighten out and fly again eh?
>
> No, disagree. Not even 90% still don’t care about collection creation, and
> wish they could just focus me on what actually matters.
>
> I’m a raft on a river in life. I don’t make choices. I dodge rocks and
> make it down the River.
> --
> - Mark
>
> http://about.me/markrmiller
>
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

I’m rested I’m vaccinated, the contest is back on!

There is some conventional wisdom out there that’s I took this journey
wrong. Or at maybe C-, but you used to be a good student, so let’s
straighten out and fly again eh?

No, disagree. Not even 90% still don’t care about collection creation, and
wish they could just focus me on what actually matters.

I’m a raft on a river in life. I don’t make choices. I dodge rocks and make
it down the River.
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

So I described sometime around 4 am Friday morning as the moment that
started the best day I’ve had in years. And like with any religion, it’s
crazy to talk to heretics this way. This is why the successful religions
focus on conversation  above all else.

But I’ve never cared much about success beyond a certain bare minimum
threshold.

And so at 4 am I completed the reawakening of my faith. No doubt, at times
I questioned it. But as a staunch and solid and unwavering faithless
individual, I knew if I had found faith somewhere, I was not up to the
challenge of questioning it with no firm grip on the facts.

Sure, I had to make the journey not once but twice, the second time deeper
and harder, engage in that struggle more than once - question my world and
grip on the timelines - what else can be expected from a faithless man -
but after back into the whale and then back out again, I’m still muttering
“speed is the light.”

So quickly, I’ll kick this fake viruses hold on my system straight back
out, I’ll finish praying to my god the best way I know how, with a
successful collection creation contest, and then boom ... who knows, who
cares. I don’t even even plan for the next hour.
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

Well the cliff notes on last night's collection creation contest is that I
was beaten.

Unbelievable. Pick and roll was working all night, I'd pre watched the
game, and then I spent a full 40 minutes to an hour trying to remember what
an Http2SolrClient.Builder was and where I would find one, between other
thoughts.

Bit there is a rematch this weekend if I survive the vaccine. And this
being the last such contest of this  type I engage in, I won't settle for
any 1-2 minute just to create the collection bullshit. It's a beat down or
go home. I don't care if this vaccine kills in my weekend state, makes me
sick, my first and last collection creation contest is going to be a
landslide. Well, if my wife doesn't. She could wake up any moment and I
have no where to dive and pretend I'm just waking up.I did sleep a
couple hours. I will go to sleep more. No one says anything.

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 10:11 PM Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's on. The Collection Creation Challenge has begun. You can follow along
> here: https://github.com/markrmiller/solr/issues/1  🏁
>
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 8:33 AM Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The day that I was moments away from over a year and half ago, caught a
> case of amnesia, and clawed my way back to, the long, painful, because pain
> builds character.
> >
> > There will be one contestant, me. The rules will be made in the fly. And
> I will share what no other living soul has yet to whiteness. Not my stress
> collaborators, or occasional branch interlopers. Not those closest to me in
> the world. It’s a myth, a mirage, and today on collection creation day,
> it’s come to life.
> >
> > I officially turned into a pumpkin yesterday or the day before, so my
> heart felt appreciation to whoever put it on the calendar.
> >
> > This is not my best, the world opens up at the end, but it is the best
> I’ll do. Get out your memes, your jeers, and your beers. Within a fees, the
> contest begins.
> >
> >
> > MRM
> > --
> > - Mark
> >
>


-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

Re: It’s here, it’s here! collection creation contest day!!

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

It's on. The Collection Creation Challenge has begun. You can follow along
here: https://github.com/markrmiller/solr/issues/1  🏁

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 8:33 AM Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The day that I was moments away from over a year and half ago, caught a
case of amnesia, and clawed my way back to, the long, painful, because pain
builds character.
>
> There will be one contestant, me. The rules will be made in the fly. And
I will share what no other living soul has yet to whiteness. Not my stress
collaborators, or occasional branch interlopers. Not those closest to me in
the world. It’s a myth, a mirage, and today on collection creation day,
it’s come to life.
>
> I officially turned into a pumpkin yesterday or the day before, so my
heart felt appreciation to whoever put it on the calendar.
>
> This is not my best, the world opens up at the end, but it is the best
I’ll do. Get out your memes, your jeers, and your beers. Within a fees, the
contest begins.
>
>
> MRM
> --
> - Mark
>