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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being open source. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source [DTraceToolkit] and other [DTrace tools]), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself.

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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a freely available MongoDB database alternative, giving you a single solution that combines the best and most important enterprise components from the open source community, designed and tested to work together. This way, we can store everything we need.

Database 111
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Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing

Smashing Magazine

It was developed in 2004. Selenium WebDriver is open source; It offers bindings for every major programming language; Works across multiple OS. This is only available as a Python module. Useful tips on front-end & UX. Trusted by 190.000 friendly folks. It mimics a real user interacting with the webpage. Limitations.

Testing 117
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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic. As for static checking on content, we already have many tools available.

Ecommerce 142
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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Data redundancy, a database version of a RAID Pondering the case of high availability and redundancy, one replicates data by creating a replica via streaming replication. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. Much of what I will show you makes heavy use of them.

C++ 98
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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

There are many typefaces, and many of them are very similar or are nearly identical to previous or contemporary versions available. We want to allow accessibility via OpenType or stylistic options with the typeface, so they are available to use if needed. These points could be extended to language support as well.