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

Percona

Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. But mainstream users? Not so much. But WordPress?

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

As I sat down with the DynamoDB team to review our progress over the last year, I realized that DynamoDB had surpassed even my own expectations for how easily applications could achieve massive scale and high availability with DynamoDB. How are we able to do this? This was the genesis of NoSQL databases like Dynamo at Amazon.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

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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. The same can be said for Citus data sharding. 1 citus | 11.1-1

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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. Stay tuned! These points could be extended to language support as well.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. Automating this process is simple. Is retraining needed?

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Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral

Smashing Magazine

The Face was a culture, fashion, and music magazine published in Britain until 2004 and Brody worked as its art director until 1986. You can still find copies available on eBay. The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture’ by Paul Gorman is more readily available, as is a compendium of all twenty issues of FUSE.

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