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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Pandora launches new HTML5 site for TVs and gaming consoles, available now on PS3 and Xbox 360 ( The Next Web). Dew Drop – June 5, 2013 (#1,561) ( Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew). The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2013 ( Dirk Strauss).

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Highly Available Redis Clusters with Automated Sharding Launches at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis, an open-source in-memory data structure project, that allows you to automatically shard across multiple Redis nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. Some of the advanced benefits of Redis Clusters include: High Availability.

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MongoDB Performance Resources

Alex Podelko

I admired MongoDB classes long before I started to work there – in 2013, 8 years ago, I wrote Revolution in Vendor Education? Can’t say that it changed much since then industry-wise – but great free MongoDB courses are available to everybody). Impact of Available IOPS On Your Database Performance.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Not available. Not available. Not available. What’s causing this massive shift? Compare Functionality.

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Evolving Regional Evacuation

The Netflix TechBlog

This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers. Though this evacuation capability exists today, this level of resiliency wasn’t always the standard for the Netflix API.

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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! They were either running their own infrastructure and installing and deploying Brotli everywhere proved non-trivial, or they were using a CDN who didn’t have readily available support for the new algorithm. packet loss).

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The Best Way to Host MongoDB on DigitalOcean

Scalegrid

If you’re running MongoDB on DigitalOcean in production, it’s best practices to deploy using a replica set to ensure high availability and data redundancy for your clusters. MongoDB Replication Strategies. DigitalOcean, along with AWS and Azure, offer a 99.99% uptime SLA, but while that sounds close to perfect, that 0.01% equates to 52.6

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